India@75: Gallantry awards conferred on 144 armed forces, police and paramilitary personnel, check full list

On the occasion of the 75^th Independence Day of India on August 15, 2021, 144 Gallantry awards have been conferred on armed forces, police and paramilitary personnel, as approved by the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, President Ram Nath Kovind.

The recipients include one Ashok Chakra and Kirti Chakra each, 15 Shaurya Chakras, 4 Bar to Sena Medals (Gallantry), 116 Sena Medals (Gallantry), 5 Nao Sena Medals (Gallantry) and 2 Vayu Sena Medals (Gallantry).

The President has also approved 28 Mention-in-Despatches to the Army personnel for their significant contributions in different military operations which include three posthumous for ‘Operation Rakshak’ and ‘Operation Rakshak’.

The Ashok Chakra, which is India’s highest peacetime military honour, was conferred posthumously on Babu Ram, ASI, Jammu and Kashmir Police. Altaf Hussain Bhat, Constable, J&K Police was posthumously conferred with the Kirti Chakra.

Here is the full list of the rest of the awardees.

Shaurya Chakra

1. Major Arun Kumar Pandey, The Rashtriya Rifles, Indian Army
2. Major Ravi Kumar Chaudhary, The Rashtriya Rifles, Indian Army
3. Captain Ashutosh Kumar, The Madras Regiment (Mysore)
4. Captain Vikas Khatri, The Rashtriya Rifles
5. Li. Kumar, The Rashtriya Rifles
6. Sepoy Neeraj Ahlawat, The Rashtriya Rifles
7. Captain Sachin Reuben Sequeira, Indian Navy
8. Group Captain Perminder Antil, Flying (Pilot), Air Force
9. Wing Commander Varun Singh Flying (Pilot), Air Force
10. Shri Chitesh Kumar, Deputy Commandant, CRPF
11. Shri Manjinder Singh, Sub Inspector, CRPF
12. Shri Sunil Choudhary, Constable, CRPF
13. Shri Debasis Sethy, Commando, Odisha Police (Posthumous)
14. Shri Sudhir Kumar Tudu, Commando, Odisha Police (Posthumous)
15. Shri Shahbaz Ahmad, Special Police Officer, J&K Police (Posthumous)

Bar To Sena Medal (Gallantry)

1. Lieutenant Colonel Krishna Kant Bajpai, The Rajput Regiment
2. Major Surendra Singh Lamba, The Grenadiers, 29th Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles
3. Major Rahul Balamohan, The Mahar Regiment, First Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles
4. Major Ankit Dahiya, The Punjab Regiment, 22nd Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles

Sena Medal (Gallantry)

1. Lieutenant Colonel Dhirendra Pratap Singh Rawat, 3rd Battalion, The 11th Gorkha Regiment
2. Lieutenant Colonel Bhagat Akshay Suresh, The Kumaon Regiment, 50th Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles
3. Lieutenant Colonel Manpreet Singh, The Sikh Light Infantry, 19th Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles
4. Lieutenant Colonel Chetan Kaushik, 37 (Independent) Reconnaissance and Observation Flight, Army
5. Major Bharat Singh Jhala, The Jat Regiment, 34th Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles
6. Major Yashovardhan Bhati, The Grenadiers, 29th Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles
7. Major Ankit Thakur, The Regiment Of Artillery /6 Assam Rifles
8. Major Rakesh Ranjan, Gorkha Rifles, 32nd Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles
9. Major Rohit Sharma, The Grenadiers, 29th Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles
10. Major Anil Kandpal, The Corps Engineers, 44th Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles
11. Major Ajit Pal Singh, 8th Battalion, The Sikh Regiment
12. Major Govind Joshi, 5 Gorkha Rifles, Headquarters Special Frontier Force
13. Major Anil Kumar Rangi, The Grenadiers, 29th Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles
14. Major Gaurav Anand Bourai, The Corps Of Engineers, First Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles
15. Major Vipranshu Pandey, The Corps Of Engineers, 42nd Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles
16. Major Gaurav Choudhary, 10th Battalion, The Parachute Regiment (Special Forces)
17. Major Tapan Kumar Tamang, 52nd Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
18. Major Narender Kumar, 24 Reconnaissance and Observation Flight, Army
19. Major Abhishek Kumar, Regiment Of Artillery, 32nd Battalion, Rashtriya Rifles, Army
20. Major Ashutosh Kumar, The Corps Of Engineers, Second Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
21. Major Randeep Singh, The Jammu And Kashmir Rifles, Third Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
22. Major Mahendra Singh, The Army Service Corps, 42nd Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
23. Major Rahul Dutta, The Regiment Of Artillery, 32 Assam Rifles, Army
24. Major Satish Kumar Gupta, The Corps Of Signals, 44th Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
25. Major Sahil Sharma, The Rajput Regiment, 44th Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
26. Major Mayank Vishnoi, The Rajput Regiment, 44th Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
27. Major Athul James, The Corps Of Engineers, First Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
28. Major Rohit Kumar Upreti, The Corps Of Engineers, 34th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
29. Major Pathak Saket, The Electronics And Mechanical Engineers, 44th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
30. Major Ankesh Jarial, The Corps Of Engineers, Third Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
31. Major Naorem Chingthangkhomba Singh, The Kumaon Regiment, 50th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles
32. Major Kundan Kumar, The Corps Of Engineers, 42nd Rashtriya Rifles Battalion (Assam)
33. Major Harjeet Singh, 5th Battalion The Rajput Regiment, Army
34. Major Manish Kumar Verma, The Corps Of Signals, 19th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
35. Major Vibhore Joshi, The Kumaon Regiment, 50th Battalion, The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
36. Major Abhishek Ghosh, The Electronics And Mechanical Engineers, 55th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
37. Captain Aaditya Anand Tyagi, The Assam Regiment, 42nd Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
38. Captain Surya Prakash, The Armoured Corps, 53rd Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
39. Captain Neil Silas Lobo, The Armoured Corps, 55th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
40. Captain Sanjay Kumar Khanka, The Jat Regiment, 34th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
41. Captain Rohit Kumar Swami, 19th Battalion The Garhwal Rifles, Army
42. Captain Snehashish Paul, The Corps Of Signals, Third Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
43. Captain Manoj Kumar Kataria, 18th Battalion The Jammu And Kashmir Rifles, Army
44. Subedar Sukhdev Singh, 16th Battalion The Grenadiers, (Posthumous), Army
45. Subedar Amar Pal Singh, The Jat Regiment, 34th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
46. Subedar Satwarg Singh, 15th Battalion The Sikh Light Infantry, Army
47. Subedar Balkar Singh, 19th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
48. Naib Subedar Anil Kumar, 38 Field Regiment, Army
49. Naib Subedar Ravinder, 16th Battalion The Grenadiers (Posthumous), Army
50. Naib Subedar Sukhwinder Singh, Eighth Battalion, The Sikh Regiment, Army
51. Naib Subedar Rajwinder Singh, First Battalion The Sikh Light Infantry (Posthomous), Army
52. Naib Subedar Pushakar Raj, 18th Battalion The Jammu And Kashmir Rifles, Army
53. Dafadar Ranjit Kumar, The Armoured Corps, 22nd Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
54. Havildar Gurjeet Singh, Ninth Battalion The Parachute Regiment (Special Forces), Army
55. Havildar Suresh Dewan, The Jammu And Kashmir Rifles, Third Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
56. Havildar Rakesh Kumar Tiwary, The Mechanised Infantry, 50th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
57. Havildar Hardhan Chandra Roy, 59 Medium Regiment (Posthumous), Army
58. Havildar Cheekala Praveen Kumar, 18th Battalion The Madras Regiment (Posthumous), Army
59. Havildar Mahaveer Singh, The Rajput Regiment, 44th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
60. Havildar Kayam Singh, The Rajput Regiment, 44th Battation The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
61. Havildar Gokaran Singh, 21st Battalion The Kumaon Regiment (Posthumous), Army
62. Havildar Ajit Singh, 15th Battalion The Sikh Light Infantry, Army
63. Havildar Guljar Singh, The Mahar Regiment, First Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
64. Havildar Showkat Ahmad Sheikh, 9th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (Special Forces), Army
65. Naik Rakesh Kumar, The Jammu And Kashmir Rifles, Third Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles Battalion, Army
66. Naik Radhe Shyam, The Mechanised Infantry, 42nd Battation The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
67. Naik Govind Singh, The Punjab Regiment, 22nd Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
68. Naik Rajwinder Singh, The Punjab Regiment, 53rd Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles (Posthumous), Army
69. Naik Sayar Khan, The Grenadiers, 29th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
70. Naik Shaitan Singh Meena, The Grenadiers, 29th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
71. Naik Jeevan Singh, The Kumaon Regiment, 50th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
72. Naik Shivaji, The Kumaon Regiment, 50th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
73. Naik Gurpreet Singh, The Sikh Light Infantry, 19th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
74. Naik Baljit Kumar, The Mahar Regiment, First Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
75. Lance Naik Nongmaithem Dhanabir Singh, 21st Battalion The Parachute Regiment (Special Forces), Army
76. Lance Naik Himmat Singh, Kumaon Regiment, 50th Battalion Rashtriya Rifles, Army
77. Lance Naik Brij Mohan, The Mechanised Infantry, 16th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
78. Lance Naik Kuldeep Kumar, The Rajput Regiment, 44th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
79. Lance Naik Dileep Kumar Yadav, The Kumaon Regiment, 50th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
80. Lance Naik Rajendra Singh Dosad, The Kumaon Regiment, 50th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
81. Lance Naik Surya Bahadur Soti, 3rd Battalion The 3 Gorkha Rifles, Army
82. Sepoy Jahaneer Ahmad War, The Sikh Light Infantry, 163 Infantry Battalion (Territorial Army), Army
83. Sepoy Mohit Bhadana, The Rajput Regiment, 44th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
84. Sepoy Samsad Ali, The Mechanised Infantry, 42th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
85. Sepoy Gautam Tamang, The Mechanised Infantry, 9th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
86. Sepoy Prashant Sharma, The Mechanised Infantry, 50th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles (Posthumous), Army
87. Sepoy Manish Kumar, The Armoured Corps, 55th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
88. Sepoy Kuldeep Singh, The Armoured Corps, 55th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
89. Sepoy Rohin Kumar, 14th Battalion The Punjab Regiment, (Posthumous), Army
90. Sepoy Ryada Maheshwar, Eighth Battalion The Madras Regiment (Posthomous), Army
91. Sepoy Ashish Kumar, The Grenadiers, 55th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
92. Sepoy Hawa Singh, The Grenadiers, 55th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
93. Sepoy Lachchhu Singh, The Rajput Regiment, 44th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
94. Sepoy Gaurav Kumar Tomar, The Rajput Regiment, 44th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
95. Sepoy Jitendra Singh Jodha, The Rajput Regiment, 44th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
96. Sepoy Anuj Mavi, The Rajput Regiment, 44th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
97. Sepoy Anuj Rana, The Rajput Regiment, 44th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
98. Sepoy Rajesh Singh Kasana, The Rajput Regimenrt, 44th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
99. Sepoy Deepak Kumar, The Jat Regiment, 34th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
100. Sepoy Elonthung N Patton, The Assam Regiment, 42nd Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
101. Sepoy Ramandeep Singh, The Sikh Light Infantry, 19th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
102. Sepoy Tanveer Ahmed, The Jammu And Kashmir Light Infantry, 55th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
103. Rifleman Rohit, Jammu And Kashmir Rifles, Third Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
104. Rifleman Naranjan, The Jammu And Kashmir Rifles, Third Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
105. Rifleman Sajad Hussain Khan, The Jammu And Kashmir Light Infantry, Ninth Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
106. Sapper Bibin C, The Corps Of Engineers, 44th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
107. Sapper Sivakumar G, The Corps Of Engineers, 44th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
108. Sapper Burla Anjaneyulu, The Corps Of Engineers, First Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
109. Grenadier Vikash Kumar Ram, The Grenadiers, 29th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, Army
110. Grenadier Ravi Kumar Singh, The Grenadiers, 29th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles (Posthomous), Army
111. Grenadier Prashant Singh, The Grenadiers, 29th Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles, (Posthumous), Army
112. Gunner Bhupender, 327 Medium Regiment, (Posthumous), Army
113. Gunner Subodh Ghosh, 59 Medium Regiment (Posthumous), Army
114. Paratrooper Manmohan Singh, 4th Battalion The Parachute Regiment (Special Forces), Army
115. Sowar Jilajeet Yadav, The Armoured Corps, 53rd Battalion The Rashtriya Rifles (Posthumous), Army
116. Scout Tashi Namgyal Lepcha, 11 Gorkha Rifles, First Battalion The Sikkim Scouts, Army

Nao Sena Medal (Gallantry)

1. Captain Prashant Handu
2. Commander Sunil S Korti
3. Commander Bipin Panikar  
4. Lieutenant Commander Raj Krishna Manu  
5. Prahlad, MCA (FD) Li

Vayu Sena Medal (Gallantry)

1. Wing Commander Uttar Kumar, Flying (Pilot)
2. Squadron Leader Deepak Mohanan, Flying (Pilot)

Apart from the gallantry medals, President Kovind also gave approval to 28 Mention-in-Despatches to personnel who made significant contributions in different military operations for India.