List of Param Vishisht Seva Medal recipients (2000–2009)

The Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) (IAST: Parama Viśiṣṭa Sēvā, lit. 'supreme distinguished service medal') is the highest peacetime medal of the Indian Armed Forces,[1] and is awarded for "distinguished service of the most exceptional order."[2][3] The medal was instituted on Republic Day 1960 as the highest class of the Vishisht Seva Medal ("Distinguished Service Medal") intended to recognise "distinguished service rendered by personnel of the Armed Forces."[3] All ranks of the Armed Forces are eligible for the medal, which may be awarded multiple times as well as posthumously.[2]

At its creation, it was designated the Vishisht Seva Medal (Class I).[3] On 27 January 1967, it received its present name.[2] Post-nominals for recipients were approved on 19 August 1967.[4]

Recipients

No. Rank Name Branch Service Number (Unit) Date of Award
667 Lieutenant General Shailendra Kumar Bhatnagar AVSM  Indian Army IC-12405 (AOC) 26 January 2000[5]
668 Lieutenant General Malik Ram Sharma VSM  Indian Army IC-12508 (Infantry) 26 January 2000[5]
669 Lieutenant General Dharambir Singh AVSM  Indian Army IC-12552 (EME) 26 January 2000[5]
670 Lieutenant General Yuvraj Kumar Mehta AVSM  Indian Army IC-7013 (Engineers) 26 January 2000[5]
671 Lieutenant General Hind Ravi Singh Mann AVSM  Indian Army IC-12813 (Infantry) 26 January 2000[5]
672 Lieutenant General Sudhir Kumar  Indian Army IC-12850 (Signals) 26 January 2000[5]
673 Lieutenant General Prakash Gokarn AVSM  Indian Army IC-12855 (Signals) 26 January 2000[5]
674 Lieutenant General Jitendra Swarup Bhatnagar AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-13021 (Army Service Corps) 26 January 2000[5]
675 Lieutenant General Malvinder Singh Shergill AVSM VrC  Indian Army IC-13152 (Armoured Corps) 26 January 2000[5]
676 Lieutenant General Surinder Bir Singh Kochar AVSM  Indian Army IC-13247 (Infantry) 26 January 2000[5]
677 Lieutenant General Satish Chandra Chopra AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-13963 (Infantry) 26 January 2000[5]
678 Lieutenant General Harjinder Singh Bagga VSM  Indian Army IC-13969 (Infantry) 26 January 2000[5]
679 Lieutenant General Amarjit Singh  Indian Army IC-12827 (EME) 26 January 2000[5]
680 Lieutenant General Ramanand Jayaswal  Indian Army MR-01515 (AMC) 26 January 2000[5]
681 Lieutenant General Satish Chandra Verma  Indian Army MR-02482 (AMC) 26 January 2000[5]
682 Vice Admiral Ravindra Nath Ganesh AVSM NM  Indian Navy 00523-N 26 January 2000[5]
683 Surgeon Vice Admiral Jagdish Chandra Sharma VSM  Indian Navy 75524-W 26 January 2000[5]
684 Surgeon Vice Admiral Pramod Chandra Bhasin AVSM VSM  Indian Navy 50155-N 26 January 2000[5]
685 Air Marshal Pran Nath Bajaj AVSM  Indian Air Force 6392 AE(M) 26 January 2000[5]
686 Air Marshal Philip Rajkumar AVSM VM  Indian Air Force 6748 F(P) 26 January 2000[5]
687 Air Marshal Satish Govind Inamdar VSM  Indian Air Force 7189 F(P) 26 January 2000[5]
688 Air Marshal Sahab Prasad Varma VSM  Indian Air Force 6466 (Medical) 26 January 2000[5]
689 Air Marshal Sayyid Shahid Hussein Naqvi AVSM VrC  Indian Air Force 7193 F(P) 26 January 2000[5]
690 Air Marshal Thrunillayi Ramaswamy Janakiraman AVSM  Indian Air Force 7058 AE(M) 26 January 2000[5]
691 Lieutenant General Ashok Kumar Puri AVSM  Indian Army IC-12326 (Engineers) 26 January 2001[6]
692 Lieutenant General Madan Pal Singh Bhandari VSM  Indian Army IC-12581 (Artillery) 26 January 2001[6]
693 Lieutenant General Avtar Singh  Indian Army IC-12909 (Artillery) 26 January 2001[6]
694 Lieutenant General Cadambi Ramaswamy Sampath Kumar AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-13027 (Artillery) 26 January 2001[6]
695 Lieutenant General Rajendra Singh Kadyan AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-13153 (Infantry) 26 January 2001[6]
696 Lieutenant General Bhupal Singh Malik AVSM (Ret'd)  Indian Army IC-13198 (Infantry) 26 January 2001[6]
697 Lieutenant General Vijay Lall AVSM  Indian Army IC-13306 (AOC) 26 January 2001[6]
698 Lieutenant General Adusumilli Seshagiri Rao AVSM  Indian Army IC-13385 (Infantry) 26 January 2001[6]
699 Lieutenant General Mohan Anand Gurbaxani AVSM  Indian Army IC-13633 (Infantry) 26 January 2001[6]
700 Lieutenant General Shankar Prasad VSM  Indian Army IC-13642 (Infantry) 26 January 2001[6]
701 Lieutenant General Shamsher Singh Mehta AVSM & bar VSM  Indian Army IC-13898 (Armoured Corps) 26 January 2001[6]
702 Lieutenant General Gurpreet Singh  Indian Army IC-13194 (Infantry) 26 January 2001[6]
703 Lieutenant General Virendra Kuar Sewal  Indian Army IC-13947 (Armoured Corps) 26 January 2001[6]
704 Lieutenant General Inder Kumar Chhitwal  Indian Army IC-14145 (Army Service Corps) 26 January 2001[6]
705 Lieutenant General Gurbaksh Singh Sihota AVSM VrC VM  Indian Army IC-15471 (Artillery) 26 January 2001[6]
706 Lieutenant General Arjun Singh Khanna AVSM VrC  Indian Army IC-15511 (Artillery) 26 January 2001[6]
707 Lieutenant General John Ranjan Mukherjee AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-15795 (Infantry) 26 January 2001[6]
708 Vice Admiral Rajeshwar Nath AVSM VSM  Indian Navy 40175-F 26 January 2001[6]
709 Vice Admiral Harinder Singh AVSM  Indian Navy 00531-F 26 January 2001[6]
710 Vice Admiral John Colin De Silva AVSM  Indian Navy 00556-N 26 January 2001[6]
711 Air Marshal Prakash Sadashivrao Pingale AVSM VrC VM  Indian Air Force 6755 F(P) 26 January 2001[6]
712 Air Marshal Teshter Jall Master AVSM  Indian Air Force 7224 F(P) 26 January 2001[6]
713 Air Marshal Khurshinder Singh Bindra AVSM VM  Indian Air Force 6863 F(P) 26 January 2001[6]
714 Air Vice Marshal Surender Singh Chauhan AVSM VSM  Indian Air Force 7853 AE(M) 26 January 2001[6]
715 Air Vice Marshal Gulshan Kumar Kawatra AVSM VSM  Indian Air Force 8001 AE(M) 26 January 2001[6]
716 Lieutenant General Sarab Jot Singh Saighal VM VSM  Indian Army IC-13244 (Artillery) 26 January 2002[7]
717 Lieutenant General Ravindra Mohan Chadha AVSM  Indian Army IC-13129 (Engineers) 26 January 2002[7]
718 Lieutenant General Surendra Kumar Jain AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-13954 (EME) 26 January 2002[7]
719 Lieutenant General Onkar Singh Lochhab AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-14531 (Infantry) 26 January 2002[7]
720 Lieutenant General Gopal Krishan Duggal AVSM VrC  Indian Army IC-14541 (Infantry) 26 January 2002[7]
721 Lieutenant General Dattatray Balajirao Shekatkar AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-14765 (Infantry) 26 January 2002[7]
722 Lieutenant General Tejinder Singh Shergill  Indian Army IC-15786 (Armoured Corps) 26 January 2002[7]
723 Lieutenant General Vijay Kumar Kapoor  Indian Army IC-15861 (Armoured Corps) 26 January 2002[7]
724 Lieutenant General Arjun Ray VSM  Indian Army IC-15938 (Mechanised Infantry) 26 January 2002[7]
725 Lieutenant General Ravinder Kumar Jetley VSM  Indian Army MR-01652 (AMC) 26 January 2002[7]
726 Lieutenant General Harcharan Singh  Indian Army MR-01987 (AMC) 26 January 2002[7]
727 Vice Admiral Arun Prakash AVSM VrC VSM  Indian Navy 00590-R 26 January 2002[7]
728 Vice Admiral Raman Puri AVSM VSM  Indian Navy 00604-Y 26 January 2002[7]
729 Vice Admiral Madan Jit Singh AVSM  Indian Navy 00614-W 26 January 2002[7]
730 Surgeon Vice Admiral Hara Prasad Mukherjee AVSM VSM  Indian Navy 75091-K 26 January 2002[7]
731 Air Marshal Sriperumbudur Raghavan AVSM VSM (Ret'd)  Indian Air Force 6710 (LGS) 26 January 2002[7]
732 Air Marshal Manjit Singh Sekhon VrC SC VM  Indian Air Force 6756 F(P) 26 January 2002[7]
733 Air Marshal Proteep Kumar Ghosh AVSM VSM (Ret'd)  Indian Air Force 7106 AE (E) 26 January 2002[7]
734 Air Marshal Michael McMahon AVSM VM  Indian Air Force 7399 F(P) 26 January 2002[7]
735 Air Marshal Teja Mohan Asthana AVSM VM  Indian Air Force 7672 F(P) 26 January 2002[7]
736 Air Marshal Manek Bomanshaw Madon AVSM VM & bar  Indian Air Force 7681 F(P) 26 January 2002[7]
737 Lieutenant General Tejinder Jit Singh Gill  Indian Army IC-15201 (Artillery) 26 January 2003[8]
738 Lieutenant General Ananthanarayan Natarajan AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-15464 (Artillery) 26 January 2003[8]
739 Lieutenant General Prakash Suri  Indian Army IC-15025 (Engineers) 26 January 2003[8]
740 Lieutenant General Dharam Parkash Sehgal AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-15403 (Signals) 26 January 2003[8]
741 Lieutenant General Bijoy Nandan Shahi AVSM VSM  Indian Army MR-02562 (AMC) 26 January 2003[8]
742 Lieutenant General Sarvjit Singh Chahal AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-16240 (Infantry) 26 January 2003[8]
743 Lieutenant General Brij Mohan Kapur AVSM  Indian Army IC-14385 (Armoured Corps) 26 January 2003[8]
744 Lieutenant General Kamaleshwar Davar AVSM  Indian Army IC-14405 (Armoured Corps) 26 January 2003[8]
745 Lieutenant General Dinesh Singh Chauhan UYSM AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-13951 (Infantry) 26 January 2003[8]
746 Lieutenant General Mahesh Vij AVSM  Indian Army IC-15787 (Infantry) 26 January 2003[8]
747 Lieutenant General Rajinder Kumar Mehta AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-14851 (EME) 26 January 2003[8]
748 Lieutenant General Naresh Chand  Indian Army IC-15490 (Artillery) 26 January 2003[8]
749 Lieutenant General Hari Uniyal  Indian Army IC-13971 (Engineers) 26 January 2003[8]
750 Lieutenant General Bhopinder Singh AVSM  Indian Army IC-16272 (Infantry) 26 January 2003[8]
751 Lieutenant General Ashok Chaki AVSM SM VSM  Indian Army IC-15915 (Infantry) 26 January 2003[8]
752 Lieutenant General Parinder Paul Singh Bindra AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-18964 (Infantry) 26 January 2003[8]
753 Lieutenant General Vijay Kumar Dua AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-15041 (Engineers) 26 January 2003[8]
754 Lieutenant General Narayan Chatterjee AVSM SM VSM  Indian Army IC-15543 (Artillery) 26 January 2003[8]
755 Lieutenant General Roshan Lal Magotra VSM  Indian Army IC-16176 (Signals) 26 January 2003[8]
756 Vice Admiral Om Prakash Bansal AVSM VSM  Indian Navy 00660-Z 26 January 2003[8]
757 Vice Admiral Pravesh Jaitly AVSM VSM  Indian Navy 50166-N 26 January 2003[8]
758 Vice Admiral Yashwant Prasad AVSM VSM  Indian Navy 00709-K 26 January 2003[8]
759 Air Marshal Adi Rustomji Ghandhi AVSM VrC  Indian Air Force 7722 F(P) 26 January 2003[8]
760 Air Marshal Dinesh Chandra Nigam AVSM VSM  Indian Air Force 7938 AE(E) 26 January 2003[8]
761 Air Marshal Satish Kumar Ramlal Dham AVSM VSM  Indian Air Force 8097 (Medical) 26 January 2003[8]
762 Air Marshal Shashindra Pal Tyagi AVSM VM  Indian Air Force 8130 F(P) 26 January 2003[8]
763 Air Marshal Ashok Kumar Goel AVSM VM  Indian Air Force 8151 F(P) 26 January 2003[8]
764 Air Marshal Vijay Achyut Patkar AVSM VSM  Indian Air Force 8632 AE(E) 26 January 2003[8]
765 Lieutenant General Ranjit Singh Nagra VSM  Indian Army IC-15492 (Artillery) 26 January 2004[9]
766 Lieutenant General Shantonu Choudhry AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-15690 (Artillery) 26 January 2004[9]
767 Lieutenant General Arvind Kumar AVSM  Indian Army IC-15831 (Armoured Corps) 26 January 2004[9]
768 Lieutenant General Jitendra Singh Varma AVSM  Indian Army IC-16033 (Armoured Corps) 26 January 2004[9]
769 Lieutenant General Joginder Jaswant Singh AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-16078 (Infantry) 26 January 2004[9]
770 Lieutenant General Jai Bhagwan Singh Yadava AVSM VrC VSM  Indian Army IC-16095 (Infantry) 26 January 2004[9]
771 Lieutenant General Hari Prasad AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-16109 (Infantry) 26 January 2004[9]
772 Lieutenant General Bhupinder Singh Thakur AVSM  Indian Army IC-16234 (Armoured Corps) 26 January 2004[9]
773 Lieutenant General Vinayak Gopal Patankar UYSM VSM  Indian Army IC-16313 (Artillery) 26 January 2004[9]
774 Lieutenant General Vijay Kumar Jetley UYSM  Indian Army IC-16542 (Infantry) 26 January 2004[9]
775 Lieutenant General Balraj Singh Takhar VSM  Indian Army IC-16543 (Armoured Corps) 26 January 2004[9]
776 Lieutenant General Gambhir Singh Negi AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-16545 (Infantry) 26 January 2004[9]
777 Lieutenant General Tej Pratap Singh Brar YSM  Indian Army IC-16783 (Infantry) 26 January 2004[9]
778 Lieutenant General Mohinder Singh AVSM  Indian Army IC-16838 (Infantry) 26 January 2004[9]
779 Lieutenant General Richard Khare AVSM SM VSM  Indian Army IC-17240 (Infantry) 26 January 2004[9]
780 Lieutenant General Nirbhay Sharma AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-17244 (Infantry) 26 January 2004[9]
781 Lieutenant General Harbans Singh Kanwar AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-21254 (Infantry) 26 January 2004[9]
782 Lieutenant General Bittianda Cariappa Bopanna AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-22834 (Infantry) 26 January 2004[9]
783 Major General Anand Sagar Bhagat AVSM SM  Indian Army IC-19029 (Signals) 26 January 2004[9]
784 Major General Manmohan Singh AVSM (Ret'd)  Indian Army IC-16300 (Signals) 26 January 2004[9]
785 Vice Admiral Leslie Alexander Lowe AVSM VSM  Indian Navy 40202-T (Infantry) 26 January 2004[9]
786 Vice Admiral Srinivasa Varadachari Gopalachari AVSM VSM  Indian Navy 00713-W 26 January 2004[9]
787 Vice Admiral Satish Chandra Suresh Bangara AVSM  Indian Navy 00726-Z 26 January 2004[9]
788 Air Marshal Anil Kumar Trikha AVSM VSM (Ret'd)  Indian Air Force 8436 F(P) 26 January 2004[9]
789 Air Marshal Brijendra Mohan Bali AVSM VM  Indian Air Force 8438 F(P) 26 January 2004[9]
790 Air Marshal Bijoy Krishna Pandey AVSM VM  Indian Air Force 8990 F(P) 26 January 2004[9]
791 Air Marshal Narayan Menon UYSM AVSM  Indian Air Force 9005 F(P) 26 January 2004[9]
792 Air Marshal Raghu Rajan  Indian Air Force 8997 F(P) 26 January 2004[9]
793 Air Marshal Prakashchandra Khandubhai Desai AVSM VSM  Indian Air Force 10078 AE(M) 26 January 2004[9]
794 Lieutenant General Mathew Mammen AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-15792 (Engineers) 26 January 2005[10]
795 Lieutenant General Jagdish Chander AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-15931 (Army Service Corps) 26 January 2005[10]
796 Lieutenant General Charanjit Singh Chima  Indian Army IC-16100 (Air Defence Artillery) 26 January 2005[10]
797 Lieutenant General Satish Bhalchandra Satpute AVSM (Ret'd)  Indian Army IC-16139 (Infantry) 26 January 2005[10]
798 Lieutenant General Raghubir Singh Shahrawat AVSM VSM (Ret'd)  Indian Army IC-16260 (AOC) 26 January 2005[10]
799 Lieutenant General Ramchandra Subramanyam  Indian Army IC-16268 (Engineers) 26 January 2005[10]
800 Lieutenant General Virinder Kumar Dhir AVSM  Indian Army IC-16567 (EME) 26 January 2005[10]
801 Lieutenant General Davinder Kumar VSM  Indian Army IC-16582 (Signals) 26 January 2005[10]
802 Lieutenant General Krishnamurthy Nagaraj UYSM  Indian Army IC-16620 (Infantry) 26 January 2005[10]
803 Lieutenant General Avtar Singh VSM  Indian Army IC-16632 (Infantry) 26 January 2005[10]
804 Lieutenant General Rana Sudhir Kumar Kapur AVSM SM VSM  Indian Army IC-16782 (Engineers) 26 January 2005[10]
805 Lieutenant General Padam Pal Singh Bhandari AVSM  Indian Army IC-16818 (Armoured Corps) 26 January 2005[10]
806 Lieutenant General Mohinder Puri UYSM  Indian Army IC-16907 (Infantry) 26 January 2005[10]
807 Lieutenant General Pramod Kumar Grover AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-17252 (Engineers) 26 January 2005[10]
808 Lieutenant General Amrik Singh Bahia AVSM  Indian Army IC-17576 (Infantry) 26 January 2005[10]
809 Lieutenant General Ashok Kapur VSM  Indian Army IC-17699 (Infantry) 26 January 2005[10]
810 Lieutenant General Janak Raj Bhardwaj AVSM VSM  Indian Army MR-02600 (AMC) 26 January 2005[10]
811 Lieutenant General Ramesh Chander Dhir  Indian Army DR-10206 (ADC) 26 January 2005[10]
812 Major General Tej Krishen Kaul AVSM VSM  Indian Army IC-28531 (Infantry) 26 January 2005[10]
813 Vice Admiral Sureesh Mehta AVSM  Indian Navy 00727-A 26 January 2005[10]
814 Vice Admiral Venkat Bharathan AVSM VSM  Indian Navy 00790-W 26 January 2005[10]
815 Surgeon Vice Admiral Vijay Kumar Singh AVSM VSM  Indian Navy 75111-F 26 January 2005[10]
816 Air Marshal Sunil Kumar Malik AVSM  Indian Air Force 9002 F(P) 26 January 2005[10]
817 Air Marshal Satish Kumar Jain AVSM VM  Indian Air Force 9716 F(P) 26 January 2005[10]
818 Air Marshal Subhash Bhojwani AVSM VSM  Indian Air Force 9734 F(P) 26 January 2005[10]
819 Air Marshal Ajit Bhavnani AVSM VM  Indian Air Force 10440 F(P) 26 January 2005[10]
820 Air Marshal Harendrajit Singh Garkal VSM  Indian Air Force 11780 (ADM) 26 January 2005[10]
821 Air Marshal Parimal Kumar Sarkar (Ret'd)  Indian Air Force 26480 (Medical) 26 January 2005[10]

See also

References

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