President Kovind confers 13 Shaurya Chakra awards, including six posthumously

May 10, 2022

**EDS: HANDOUT PHOTO MADE AVAILABLE FROM PRO (DEFENCE) ON TUESDAY, MAY 10, 2022** New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind presents the Shaurya Chakra (Posthumous) to Havildar Kashiray Bammanalli during Defence Investiture Ceremony I, in New Delhi. His wife Sangeeta Kashiray Bammanalli and mother Shantabai Shankreppa Bammanalli received the award from the President. (PTI Photo)(PTI05_10_2022_000193B)

New Delhi, May 10

President Ram Nath Kovind on Tuesday conferred 13 Shaurya Chakra awards, including six posthumously, to armed forces personnel while Army Chief Gen Manoj Pande received the Param Vishisht Seva medal.

The Shaurya Chakra is India’s third-highest peacetime gallantry award after the Ashok Chakra and Kirti Chakra.

The awards were conferred at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan.

The gallantry awards were given to the personnel for displaying conspicuous gallantry, indomitable courage and extreme devotion to duty, said an official statement.

The six personnel, who were conferred the Shaurya Chakra posthumously, were Captain Ashutosh Kumar of the 18th Battalion of the Madras Regiment, Havildar Anil Kumar Tomar of the Rajput Regiment, Havildar Pinku Kumar of the Jat Regiment, Havildar Kashiray Bammanalli from the Corps of Engineers, Naib Subedar Sreejith from the 17th Battalion of Madras Regiment and Sepoy Maruprolu Jaswanth Kumar Reddy, also from the 17th Battalion of the Madras Regiment.