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62 gallantry awards conferred on armed forces, aramilitaries on Independence Day | | Celebrating the nation's 66th Independence Day on
Wednesday, the Indian Government announced that it would be conferring 62 gallantry awards to members of the armed forces and paramilitary personnel. An Indian Air
Force helicopter pilot, who made a safe landing despite his helicopter being attacked
with automatic weapon gunfire by Naxals in Chhattisgarh in December 2011, is one
of the 15 armed forces and paramilitary personnel who will be awarded the Shaurya
Chakra gallantry award. Two young CRPF officers have been awarded the Shaurya
Chakra, the highest peace time gallantry medal, for undertaking the operation
in which top Maoist leader Kishenji was killed in the jungles of West Bengal.
The Shaurya Chakra is usually awarded to army personnel, but for the last few
years, Central Reserve Police Force personnel have also been given this military
honour for their valiant actions in anti-Naxal operations and jungle warfare duties.
Assistant Commandants Vinoj P. Joseph and Nagendra Singh, both officers of CRPF’s
CoBRA battalion, led the operation in dense forests of Jhargram in West Bengal
on November 24 last year which resulted in the killing of Naxalite “commander”
Kishenji, alias Koteshwar Rao. The CRPF has received the maximum number of gallantry
awards on the eve of Independence Day on Tuesday, with 52 medals of President’s
Police Medal for gallantry and the Police Medal for Gallantry. The maximum number
of these medals has been won by the CRPF in the anti-Naxal duties and 10 personnel
received the gallantry medal posthumously. The home ministry said a total of 892
personnel have been awarded police medals on the occasion of Independence Day
this year. Meanwhile, 30 CISF officials have been awarded the President’s Police
Medal which includes IG Sanjay Chander, DIG Jai Deep Prasad and DIG Anjani K.
Singh, along with many other senior and junior rank officers. Prasad, officiating
as the DIG (operations and intelligence) at the CISF headquarters, has earlier
been awarded with the police medal for gallantry in 2009 and has been credited
for undertaking active policing works in the Naxal and dacoity-affected districts
of Madhya Pradesh. The Border Security Force, also actively engaged in anti-Naxal
and border guarding duties, has been awarded 61 medals which include nine Police
Medal for Gallantry, six President’s Police Medals for Distinguished Services
and 46 Police Medals for Meritorious Services. Sixteen ITBP officials have been
conferred the President’s Police Medal for distinguished service and Police Medal
for meritorious service while 13 personnel of the SSB have been awarded with various
police service medals.
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