MEDALS FOR BSF PERSONNEL

BSF bags 53 medals, 12 go to SSB men

BSF personnel have bagged 53 medals including one Police Medal for Gallantry (PMG) and six President’s Police Medal for Distinguished Service (PPMDS) and 46 police medals for meritorious service.

While PMG was given posthumously to Constable Jai Kishan, PPMDS was conferred to Deputy Insptectors General Jagat Singh, Shaitan Singh Chahar, Dinesh Kumar Upadhyaya, Kalyan Kumar Mukherjee and Deputy Commandant Ajit Singh and Inspector Tilak Raj.

After displaying bravery at India’s foreign mission in Afghanistan and the icy Sino-Indian frontier, the mountain-trained ITBP has for the first time won a gallantry medal in anti-Naxal operations.

Constable Bhoop Singh decorated with President’s Police Medal (posthumously) took on Naxals at the Chhattisgarh-Maharashtra border in January last year and succumbed to bullet injuries.

“Timely alertness about Naxal presence and immediate retaliation by him led the operations party to an advantageous position which not only saved the precious lives of many others but also inflicted and forced the armed Naxalites to flee into the dense jungles,” Singh’s citation said.

Twelve personnel of Sasashtra Seema Bal were conferred 12 medals including one PPMDS and eleven were decorated with President’s Police Medal for Meritorious Service. Those decorated include IPS officer and Inspector General Anil Agrawal, IPS and DIG David Lalrinsanga, Commandatn (Medical) Dr Partha Mitra, Area Organiser Jagdeep Pal Singh, Accounts Officer NR Verma, Executive Engineer Mukesh Khandelwal, APO Kavindra Kumar Verma, Assistant Commandant Krishan Singh, Assistant Engineer PC Pandey, Sub Inspector Nabin Chandra Dihingia, Head Constable Shiam Singh and Constable Narain Singh.

Twenty nine CISF personnel were awarded with police medals on this year’s Republic Day celebration. Those decorated include Commandant BC Jaglawala and Deputy Commandnat Rakesh Kapoor for PPMDS and Commandant Shri Narain for President’s Fire Service Medal for Distinguished Service and M Arumugam and NP SUbaiah for Fire Service Medal for Meritorious Service. Twenty four other CISF personnel were conferred with police medals for meritorious service.

Four officers and men of the elite National Security Guards have been awarded the Police Medal for Meritorious Service on this year Republic Day.

Those awarded include Group Commander Hanumant Singh Rawat, Group Commander Shikha Gupta, Assistant Commandant CP Vijayanandan, Constable Ra