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Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair was awarded both Ashoka Chakra and Kirti Chakra. Damodar Kashinath Jatar, a pilot of Air India's Kashmir Princess was the first civilian recipient of the Ashoka Chakra. Colonel Yury Malyshev and Flight Engineer Gennadi Strekalov from Russia were the first foreign recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (both were ...
4 Ashoka Chakra. 5 Kirti Chakra. 6 Shaurya Chakra. 7 Vayu Sena Medal. 8 References. Toggle the table of contents. ... List of Indian Air Force Gallantry Award winners.
Pages in category "Recipients of the Ashoka Chakra (military decoration)" The following 68 pages are in this category, out of 68 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In the centre, the Ashoka Chakra, surrounded by a lotus wreath and with an ornate edge. Suspended by a straight bar suspender. The medal is named on the edge. Reverse: For pre-1967 awards, the medal is blank in the centre, with "Ashoka Chakra" in Hindi along the upper edge on the medal and the same name in English along the lower rim, "ASHOKA ...
Param Vir Chakra: 3 November 1947: 21: Highest wartime military decoration. Ashoka Chakra: 1952: 86: Highest peacetime military decoration. Iran: Zolfaghar: Established 1856, renamed 1925: Revived in 2019 when Major General Qasem Soleimani received the decoration, the first time it had been awarded since 1979. [4] Ireland: Military Medal for ...
The Ashoka Chakra (Transl: Ashoka's wheel) is an Indian symbol which is a depiction of the dharmachakra (English: "wheel of dharma"). It is so-called because it appears on a number of edicts of Ashoka the Great , [ 1 ] most prominent among which is the Lion Capital of Ashoka . [ 2 ]
It may be awarded to civilians as well as military personnel, including posthumous awards. It is the peacetime equivalent of the Maha Vir Chakra. It is second in order of precedence of peacetime gallantry awards; it comes after Ashoka Chakra and before Shaurya Chakra. Before 1967, the award was known as the Ashoka Chakra, Class II. [6]
Major Mukund Varadarajan AC (12 April 1983 – 25 April 2014) was an Indian Army officer and a recipient of the Ashoka Chakra.Mukund, a commissioned officer in the Indian Army's Rajput Regiment, was posthumously awarded the Ashok Chakra for his actions during a counterterrorism operation while on deputation to the 44th Rashtriya Rifles battalion in Jammu and Kashmir.