List of notable Rimcollians

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The following is a list of some notable Rimcollians, graduates of the Rashtriya Indian Military College in Dehradun, India.

Contents 1 Military 1.1 Chief of Army Staff 1.2 Chief of Air Staff 1.3 Adjutant General 1.4 GOC-in-C 1.5 Commandant IMA 1.6 Indian National Army 2 Gallantry Awards 2.1 Victoria Cross 2.2 Param Vir Chakra 2.3 Mahavir Chakra 2.4 Kirti Chakra 2.5 Vir Chakra 2.6 Shaurya Chakra 3 Civilian Awards 3.1 Padma Vibhushan 3.2 Padma Bhushan 3.3 Padma Shri 4 Sports 4.1 Arjuna Award 5 Ministers 6 Diplomats 7 Civil Servants 8 See Also 9 References

[edit] Military

[edit] Chief of Army Staff

• General K.S. Thimayya
• General Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
• General V.N. Sharma
• General S. Padmanabhan
• General Gul Hasan, Commander-in-Chief, Pakistan Army

[edit] Chief of Air Staff

• Air Chief Marshal N.C. Suri
• Air Marshal Asghar Khan, PAF
• Air Marshal Nur Khan, PAF

[edit] Adjutant General

• Major General Hira Lal Atal
• Lt General M.M. Lakhera

[edit] GOC-in-C

• Lt General Premindra Singh Bhagat, Central Command
• Lt General K.P. Candeth, Western Command, Famous as the liberator of Goa
• Lt General J.S. Dhillon
• Lt General K. Chiman Singh
• Lt General R.K. Gulati
• Lt General R.N. Batra

[edit] Commandant IMA

• Lt General M.A. Zaki
• Maj General S.C. Sinha

[edit] Indian National Army

• Maj General Shah Nawaz Khan
• Maj General J.K. Bhonsle
• Lt Colonel Niranjan Singh Gill

[edit] Gallantry Awards

[edit] Victoria Cross

• Lt General Premindra Singh Bhagat

[edit] Param Vir Chakra

• Major Som Nath Sharma

[edit] Mahavir Chakra

• Brigadier K.L. Atal
• Colonel Onkar Singh

[edit] Kirti Chakra

• Deepak Yadav
• A.K. Singh

[edit] Vir Chakra

• Rajan Dutt
• C.D. Subia
• M.A. Zaki
• G.C. Verma
• Jitendra Kumar
• Chandrakant
• J.K. Roy Chaudhary
• R.K. Sen
• V. Patney
• R.S. Bedi
• R.K. Sinha
• A.P. Datta
• R.S. Grewal
• G.S. Sandhu
• Manoranjan Singh

[edit] Shaurya Chakra

• P.B. Chowdhuri
• K.S. Rao
• Jasbir Singh Kaberwal
• Anu Rana Saluja

[edit] Civilian Awards

[edit] Padma Vibhushan

• General K.S. Thimayya

[edit] Padma Bhushan

• J.S. Dhillon
• K.P. Candeth
• K.S. Katoch
• Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
• Harnarain Singh

[edit] Padma Shri

• Lt General M.A. Zaki
• Lt General K.P. Candeth

[edit] Sports

• Ritwik Bhattacharya, currently a world top 50 Squash player

[edit] Arjuna Award

• Brigadier R.K. Manchanda, Squash
• Brigadier D.K. Khullar, Mountaineering
• Brigadier K.S. Rao, Sailing

[edit] Ministers

• Maj General Shah Nawaz Khan, Minister of Railways, Central Government
• Maj General J.K. Bhonsle, Minister of Rehabilitation, Central Government
• Colonel Ram Singh, Member of Parliament, Minister of State for Wasteland Development
• Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, Foreign Minister, Pakistan
• Nasirullah Babur, Interior Minister, Pakistan

[edit] Diplomats

• Shaharyar Khan, Foreign Secretary, Head of Pakistan's Diplomatic Corps
• Niranjan Singh Gill, Ex-Indian National Army, Indian Ambassador

[edit] Civil Servants

• H.S. Butalia, Chief Secretary
• D.P.N. Singh, Head of Border Security Force

[edit] See Also

• Rashtriya Indian Military College

[edit] References

• Where Gallantry is Tradition: Saga of Rashtriya Indian Military College, By Bikram Singh, Sidharth Mishra, Contributor Rashtriya Indian Military College, Published 1997 by Allied Publishers, Military education, 232 pages, ISBN 8170236495