President approves Gallantry awards to 70 Armed Forces personnel, including six posthumous

New Delhi, January 25. President Smt Droupadi Murmu has approved 98 Mentioned-in-Despatches to the Armed Forces personnel, including five posthumous, on the eve of 77^th Republic Day. These include 81 from the Indian Army – 17 for Operation Rakshak; 11 for Operation Snow Leopard; 11 for Operation Hifazat; five for Operation Orchid; two for Operation Meghdoot; one for Operation Rhino; two for Operation Sindoor; three for Rescue Operation; four for Operation Casualty Evacuation; one for Operation Soffain; 24 for Miscellaneous Operations, including three posthumous; 15 for the Indian Navy; and two for Border Roads Development Board personnel (posthumous). The full list of the recipients of Mentioned-in-Despatches is as follows:

INDIAN ARMY

OPERATION RAKSHAK

1. IC-72845P Lieutenant Colonel Guriqbal Singh, The Regiment of Artillery, 662 Army Aviation Squadron (R&O)
2. IC-75641N Lieutenant Colonel Aditya Jasrotia, 666 Army Aviation Squadron (R&O)
3. IC-76028N Lieutenant Colonel Abhijit Singh, 662 Army Aviation Squadron (R&O)
4. JC-432776P Subedar Ranjit Singh, The Punjab Regiment, 53 Rashtriya Rifles
5. JC-492296P Subedar Praveen Kumar, 7 JAT
6. JC-595709N Subedar Mohd Younis, The Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry, 20 Rashtriya Rifles
7. JC-523993Y Naib Subedar Rakesh Kumar, 18 Dogra
8. JC-596382M Naib Subedar Basharat Hussain, 6 Jammu and Kashmir Light Infantry
9. 3205810Y Havildar Jitender, 7 Jat
10. 4487338L Havildar Darshan Singh, 4 Para (Special Forces)
11. 20006014L Lance Naik Suraj Singh, The Parachute Regiment, Special Group
12. 7787355M Lance Naik Yathish H, 4 Para (Special Forces)
13. 14950345K Sepoy Mukesh Kumar, The Mechanised Infantry, 42 Rashtriya Rifles
14. 3021054X Sepoy Vikash Singh, 6 Rajput
15. 6502060F Sepoy Nitish Kumar, 898 Animal Transport Battalion Army Service Corps
16. 16130019L Sapper Shyam Sethumadhavan, The Corps of Engineers, 44 Rashtriya Rifles
17. A1600052K Agniveer Anmol Choudhary, 18 Dogra

OPERATION SNOW LEOPARD

18. IC-74706K Lieutenant Colonel Gagandeep Singh, 16 Punjab
19. JC-414773Y Subedar Suresh Kumar Dangi, 7 Para (Special Forces)
20. JC-472530Y Subedar Poona Ram, 14 Rajputana Rifles
21. JC-415197M Naib Subedar Vijay Kumar, 9 Para (Special Forces)
22. 16021168H Havildar Harlal Kaler, 14 Rajputana Rifles
23. 9427929X Naik Budhi Raj Rai, The 11^th Gorkha Rifles, 1 Sikkim Scouts
24. 9427963X Naik Jhanu Prasad Chhetri, The 11^th Gorkha Rifles, 1 Sikkim Scouts
25. 9428019W Naik Pukar Kattel, The 11^th Gorkha Rifles, 1 Sikkim Scouts
26. 4383276K Lance Naik Lobzang Wangchu Namsa, 9 Para (Special Forces)
27. 2626473A Sepoy Lakshmikanth Godi, The Madras Regiment, 38 Rashtriya Rifles
28. 16125221P Sapper Billingi Mohana Rao, 11 Engineer Regiment

OPERATION HIFAZAT

29. IC-77663L Lieutenant Colonel Nitin Sharma, The Army Air Defence, 5 Assam Rifles
30. IC-82093K Major Bhavesh Puri, The Regiment of Artillery, 8 Assam Rifles
31. IC-84418L Major Mridul Tripathi, The Regiment of Artillery, 3 Assam Rifles
32. IC-85171F Major Aditya Jain, 2 Mahar
33. SS-48583L Major Anupam Vashishtha, The Army Air Defence, 21 Assam Rifles
34. MS-22035W Captain Abhishek Dhakad, The Army Medical Corps, 1 Assam Rifles
35. AR-496A Assistant Commandant Ramesh Chand, 37 Assam Rifles
36. JC-562404N Subedar Jitendra Singh, 8 Bihar
37. 5852956F Havildar Subash Poudel, 5/9 Gorkha Rifles
38. G/0111068W Havildar Som Datt Tiwari, 1 Assam Rifles
39. G/5003287H Rifleman Lalhmahruaia, 3 Assam Rifles

OPERATION ORCHID

40. IC-76617K Lieutenant Colonel Vishal Kumar Yadav, 11 Para (Special Forces)
41. IC-82626F Major Devesh Kumar Tushir, 11 Para (Special Forces)
42. 13630582X Naik Sumit Sinha, 21 Para (Special Forces)
43. 16128372Y Lance Naik Suneela Eshwara Maranura, 21 Para (Special Forces)
44. 4103678M Paratrooper Mandeep Singh, 21 Para (Special Forces)

OPERATION MEGHDOOT

45. SS-50393X Captain Aditya Srinivas Prasad, 20 Madras
46. 4373812N Naik Lunminlen Chongloi, 10 Assam

OPERATION RHINO

47. 15213868P Havildar Netra Pal, 1831 Medium Regiment

OPERATION SINDOOR

48. IC-66870X Colonel Amit Kumar Yadav, 615 Intelligence & Field Security Unit
49. IC-69553F Colonel Vinay Kumar Pandey, 357 Intelligence & Field Security Unit

RESCUE OPERATION

50. IC-77598W Lieutenant Colonel Prabhpreet Singh Marwaha, 670 Army Aviation Squadron (R&O)

51. IC-82235W Major Arjun Nair, 205 Army Aviation Squadron (UH)
52. 16134143K Sapper Buddhe Lokesh, 201 Engineer Regiment

OPERATION CASUALTY EVACUATION

53. IC-70425W Lieutenant Colonel Bapanapalli Srinivas, 669 Army Aviation Squadron (R&O)
54. IC-71382Y Lieutenant Colonel Varun Parashar, 669 Army Aviation Squadron (R&O)
55. IC-72084P Lieutenant Colonel Aman Deep Sharma, 671 Army Aviation Squadron (R&O)
56. SS-50607H Captain Neeraj Choudhary, 661 Army Aviation Squadron (R&O)

OPERATION SOFFAIN

57. 19004504W Naik Gurjant Singh, 1 Para (Special Forces)

MISC OPERATIONS

58. IC-79075W Major Nagendra Singh, The Corps of Engineers, 93 RCC (GREF)
59. MS-21757W Captain Devam Trivedi, The Army Medical Corps, 55 Engineer Regiment
60. 00065904N Company Leader Tsering Nyedhon, Headquarter Special Frontier Force
61. IC-67565X Colonel Shaurya Singh, 662 ARMY AVN SQN (R&O)
62. IC-68548K Colonel Shinde Sanjog A, 670 ARMY AVN SQN (R&O)
63. IC-62499W Lieutenant Colonel Rajesh Malakay, JAK LI, HQ 112 MTN BDE
64. IC-71442H Lieutenant Colonel Anurag, 659 ARMY AVN SQN (R&O)
65. IC-72080Y Lieutenant Colonel Ashish Jha, 21 PARA (SF)
66. IC-72290Y Lieutenant Colonel Rakesh Singh, 6 RAJPUT
67. IC-77063H Lieutenant Colonel Adarsh T, 14 RAJ RIF
68. IC-81420X Major Simranjeet Singh Raina, 2 MAHAR
69. IC-83377A Major Gurjant Singh, GRENADIERS, HQ SFF
70. IC-83583K Major Deepak Phogat, ENGRS, 37 ASSAM RIF
71. IC-84372N Major Gaurav Tiwari, JAK RIF, 4 ASSAM RIF
72. IC-85191P Major Akash Joshi, 7 JAT
73. SS-50795P Major Bharat Shankar Ganti, 14 GARH RIF
74. IC-86176M Captain Parminder Singh, 20 MADRAS
75. 15194504L RHM Teakram, 136 FD REGT
76. 15815675L Havildar Yakub Masih, 8 MTN DIV ORD UNIT (POSTHUMOUS)
77. 2504441H Havildar Sandeep Kumar, 27 PUNJAB
78. 4378341P Naik Rohit Basnet, 9 PARA (SF)
79. 5459271X Naik Navin Poudel, 5/5 GR (POSTHUMOUS)
80. 13632145W Sepoy Bipul Boro, 10 ASSAM
81. A1102443L Agniveer Ajeet Singh Rajpoot, 14 RAJ RIF (POSTHUMOUS)

INDIAN NAVY

1. 06043-H Commander Roshan George
2. 06365-R Commander Dnyaneshwar Khanekar
3. 06669-F Commander Amit Tiwari
4. 07966-B Lieutenant Commander Vikas Ganghas
5. 08071-T Lieutenant Commander Jose Babu
6. 05567-A Captain Sahil Makkar
7. 08358-W Lieutenant Commander Sandeep Singh
8. 09527-A Lieutenant Commander Utkarsh Katiyar
9. 222608-B Rajpal Cpo (GW)
10. 06030-B Commander Rahul Patnaik
11. 246626-R Ankit Kumar, LA(FD)
12. 04763-Z Captain Amitabh Roy
13. 04914-T Commodore M C Moudgil
14. 256297-W Santram LS(CD)
15. 506880-A Gyanendra Singh Seengar, ERA-4

BORDER ROADS DEVELOPMENT BOARD

1. P-2496 CP Skiled Ganesh Singh (Posthumous)
2. P-2623 CP MAZ Dhunna Tudu (Posthumous)