List of Rimcollians

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 Vice Chief of Army Staff 1.4 GOC-in-C & GOC 1.5 Adjutant General 1.6 Engineer-in-Chief 1.7 Commandant IMA 1.8 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 Royals 6 Ministers 7 Diplomats 8 Civil servants 9 See also 10 References

Military

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

Chief of Air Staff

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

Vice Chief of Army Staff

• Lt General S K Singh, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM

GOC-in-C & GOC

• Lt General Premindra Singh Bhagat, PVSM, VC, GOC-in-C Central Command
• Lt General K.P. Candeth, GOC-in-C Western Command, Famous as the liberator of Goa
• Lt General Joginder Singh Dhillon, Padma Bhushan, GOC-in-C Central Command
• Lt General K. Chiman Singh
• Lt General R.K. Gulati
• Lt General R.N. Batra
• Air Marshal V. Patney, AOC-in-C Western Air Command
• Maj General M. Anwar Khan (Pakistan Army E-in-C)
• Lt General N S Brar,PVSM,AVSM,VSM,ADC, GOC Corps & Administrative Member,Armed Forces Tribunal

Adjutant General

• Major General Hira Lal Atal
• Lt General M.M. Lakhera
• Major General Karam Singh, PVSM, SM, Dy Adjutant General

Engineer-in-Chief

• Lt General Gautam Dutt, VSM
• Lt General Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (Pakistan Army)

Commandant IMA

• Lt General M.A. Zaki
• Maj General S.C. Sinha
• Lt Gen Manvendra Singh, AVSM, VSM (Ex- GOC Div & Ex-GOC Area)

Indian National Army

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

Gallantry awards

Victoria Cross

• Lt General Premindra Singh Bhagat, PVSM

Param Vir Chakra

• Major Som Nath Sharma

Mahavir Chakra

• Brigadier K.L. Atal
• Colonel Onkar Singh

Kirti Chakra

• Deepak Yadav
• A.K. Singh

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

Shaurya Chakra

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

Civilian awards

Padma Vibhushan

• General K.S. Thimayya

Padma Bhushan

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

Padma Shri

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

Sports

• Ritwik Bhattacharya, a world top 50 Squash player

Arjuna award

• Brigadier R.K. Manchanda, Squash
• Brigadier D.K. Khullar, Mountaineering
• Brigadier K.S. Rao, Sailing
• Maj Shakti Singh, squash- services Golf- services

Royals

• Colonel Sawai Maharaj Sahib Deshpal Singh Ju Deo of Ajaigarh, Appointed as Dewan (Prime Minister) on the kind obligation of British Raj for revamp of Chhatarpur State and Administrator - Dewan of Baraundha State (Under Court of Wards). President of All India Kshatriya Maha Sabha during the Raj Period.

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
• Naseerullah Babar, Interior Minister, Pakistan

Diplomats

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

Civil servants

• H.S. Butalia, Chief Secretary
• D.P.N. Singh, Head of Border Security Force
• Ashwani Kumar, current director CBI

See also

• Rashtriya Indian Military College

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