List of National Defence Academy alumni

The front view of the Sudan Block of the National Defence Academy
The Sudan Block of NDA

The Indian National Defence Academy (NDA) is the joint services academy of the Indian Armed Forces, where cadets of the three armed forces (the Army, the Navy and the Air Force) train together before beginning pre-commission training at their respective service academies (Indian Military Academy (IMA), Indian Naval Academy (INA), and Air Force Academy (AFA) for army, navy, and air force cadets respectively). Established in 1954 and located in vicinity of Khadakwasla Dam, near Pune, it is the world's first tri-service academy.[1][2]

NDA is not only the officer training academy in India. Besides NDA, which is tri-service academy, the Indian Army's IMA,[3] Officers Training Academy (OTA),[4][5] Army Cadet College (ACC), the Indian Navy's INA,[6] and the Air Force's AFA are the other officer training academies of India. Besides cadets from NDA, these academies accept cadets separately from several streams. Apart from these, the Indian Army has three establishments for technical stream which include College of Military Engineering (CME),[7] Military College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCTE),[8] and Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME).[9] Although cadets are imparted technical training at these three academies, they are commissioned through OTA, Gaya.[10] Excluding all these establishments, which are meant for combat arms, the Indian Army has other commissioning academies for support services such as the Medical Corps,[11] and the Judge Advocate General's Department for example.[12]

NDA alumni have led and participated in every major conflict in which the Indian Armed Forces have been called into action since the academy was founded.[1] Alumni include three Param Vir Chakra recipients and eleven Ashoka Chakra recipients.[13][14] The NDA has produced 30 service chiefs of staff, including the incumbent chiefs of staff of the Army, Navy and Air Force.[15]

Chiefs of staff

General Vijay Kumar Singh
General Vijay Kumar Singh
General Dalbir Singh
General Dabir Singh
Admiral Arun Prakash
Admiral Arun Prakash
Admiral Robin Kumar Dhowan
Admiral Robin Kumar Dhowan
Admiral Sunil Lanba
Admiral Sunil Lanba
Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik
Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik
Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne
Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne
Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha
Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha

As of January 2017, the academy has produced twelve Chiefs of the Army Staff (COAS), ten Chiefs of the Naval Staff (CNS) and eight Chiefs of the Air Staff (CAS). All incumbent service chiefs (COAS Gen Bipin Rawat, CNS Adm Sunil Lanba and CAS ACM Birender Singh) are NDA alumni.[15]

Chiefs of the Army Staff

No. Name Awards Course number Notes
1 Sunith Francis Rodrigues PVSM,[lower-alpha 1] VSM[lower-alpha 2] 1 16th COAS; 32nd Governor of Punjab[15][16][17][18]
2 Bipin Chandra Joshi PVSM, AVSM,[lower-alpha 3] ADC[lower-alpha 4] 5 17th COAS[15][19][20][21]
3 Shankar Roy Chowdhury PVSM, ADC 10 18th COAS; Former Rajya Sabha member[15][22][23][24]
4 Ved Prakash MalikPVSM, AVSM 14 19th COAS[15][25][26][27]
5 Sundararajan Padmanabhan PVSM, AVSM, VSM 15 20th COAS[15][28][29][30]
6 Nirmal Chander Vij PVSM, UYSM,[lower-alpha 5] AVSM 21 21st COAS; Former National Disaster Management Authority vice-chair; Vivekananda International Foundation director[15][31][32][33][34][35]
7 Joginder Jaswant Singh PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC 25 22nd COAS; 14th Governor of Arunachal Pradesh[15][36][37][38]
8 Deepak Kapoor PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC 30 23rd COAS[15][39][40]
9 Vijay Kumar Singh PVSM, AVSM, YSM,[lower-alpha 6] ADC 36 24th COAS; Union Minister of State for External Affairs; Union Minister of State for Overseas Indian Affairs; Minister of State for Statistics and Programme Implementation; Former Minister for Development of North Eastern Region; Member of Indian Parliament for Ghaziabad[15][41][42][43][44][45][46][47]
10 Bikram Singh PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC 40 25th COAS[15][48][49][50]
11 Dalbir Singh PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC 44 26th COAS[15][51][52][53]
12Bipin RawatUYSM, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM5327th (incumbent) COAS[15][54]

Chiefs of the Naval Staff

No. Name Awards Course number Notes
1 Laxmi Narayan Ramdas PVSM, AVSM, VrC,[lower-alpha 7] VSM, ADC 1 Former CNS; 2004 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding[55][15][56]
2 Vijai Singh Shekhawat PVSM, AVSM, VrC, ADC 7 Former CNS; Former Vice Chairman of Outward Bound India; Vivekananda International Foundation advisory board member[57][58][15]
3 Vishnu Bhagwat PVSM, AVSM, ADC 14 Former CNS[59][60][15]
4 Sushil Kumar PVSM, AVSM, UYSM, YSM, NM,[lower-alpha 8] VSM, ADC 16 Former CNS[59][15]
5 Madhvendra Singh PVSM, AVSM, ADC 20 Former CNS[33][15]
6Arun Prakash PVSM, AVSM, VrC, VSM, ADC 26 18th CNS[61][62][15][63]
7Sureesh Mehta PVSM, AVSM, ADC 29 19th CNS; Former High Commissioner to New Zealand[64][65][66][67][15][68]
8 Nirmal Kumar Verma PVSM, AVSM 35 20th CNS; 24th High Commissioner to Canada[69][70][15]
9Robin Kumar Dhowan PVSM, AVSM, YSM, ADC 45 22nd CNS[71][15]
10Sunil Lanba PVSM, AVSM, ADC51 23rd (incumbent) CNS[72][73][15]

Chiefs of the Air Staff

No. Name Awards Course number Notes
1 Nirmal Chandra Suri PVSM, AVSM, VM,[lower-alpha 9] ADC 1 Former CAS[74][15]
2 Swaroop Krishna Kaul PVSM, MVC,[lower-alpha 10] ADC 5Former CAS; Maha Vir Chakra recipient[75][76][15]
3 Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC 12 Former CAS[77][15]
4 Anil Yashwant Tipnis PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC 15 Former CAS[78][79][15]
5 Pradeep Vasant Naik PVSM, VSM, ADC 33 Former CAS[80][81][82][15]
6 Norman Anil Kumar Browne PVSM, VM, ADC 39 Former CAS; Ambassador to Norway[83][84][85][86][15]
7 Arup Raha PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC 44 Former CAS[87][88][89][15]
8Birender Singh DhanoaPVSM, AVSM, YSM, VM, ADC52Incumbent CAS[15][90]

Wartime award recipients

As of October 2016, 3 Param Vir Chakras, 31 Maha Vir Chakras and 160 Vir Chakras have been awarded to NDA officers.[91]

Param Vir Chakra

Three officers from NDA have posthumously received the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest wartime gallantry award. All three were from the Army.[13]

No. Name Course number Unit Year
1 Gurbachan Singh Salaria 10 3/1 Gorkha Rifles1961[92][93]
2 Arun Khetarpal 38 17 Poona Horse1971[92][94][95]
3 Manoj Kumar Pandey 90 1/11 Gorkha Rifles1999[92][96]

Maha Vir Chakra

Thirty-one NDA officers have received the Maha Vir Chakra, India's second-highest wartime gallantry award: two from the Air Force, one from the Navy and the remainder from the Army. Ten received the award posthumously.[97] Air Force squadron leader Padmanabha Gautam is the only NDA officer to receive the award twice, in 1965 and 1971 (posthumously).[98]

No. Name Course number Unit Year
1 Raj Mohan Vohra 1 Armoured Corps1971[97][99][100][97]
2Hanut Singh 1 Armoured Corps 1971[97][101][102][103]
3Kulwant Singh Pannu 1 Infantry1971[97][104]
4Narinder Singh Sandhu 2 Infantry 1971[97][105]
5Padmanabha Gautam 3 Air Force 1965, 1971 (posthumous)[97][98]
6Sushil Kumar Mathur 3 Artillery1965[97][106][107]
7Sukhjit Singh 4 Armoured Corps 1971[97][108]
8Shamsher Singh 5 Infantry 1971[97][109]
9Raj Kumar Singh 5 Infantry1971[97][110]
10H C Pathak 5 Infantry 1971[97][111]
11Swaroop Krishna Kaul 5 Air Force 1971[112][113]
12Ved Prakash Ghai 5 Infantry1971 (posthumous)[97][114]
13Surinder Kapoor 7 Infantry 1971[97][115]
14Ved Prakash Airy 8 Infantry 1972[97][116]
15Bhaskar Roy 9 Armoured Corps 1965[97][117]
16Daljit Singh Narang 9 Armoured Corps 1972 (posthumous)[97]
17Santosh Kumar Gupta 10 Navy 1971[97][118]
18Vijay Rattan Choudhry 13 Corps of Engineers 1971[97]
19Vijay Kumar Berry 14 Infantry1971[97][119]
20Manjit Singh 19 Infantry1987[97][120]
21Bhagwan Dutt Dogra 20 Infantry1962[97][121]
22Amarjit Singh Bal 22 Armoured Corps1971[97][122]
23Gautam Mubayi 23 Infantry1965 (posthumous)[97][123]
24Pradip Kumar Gour 25 Infantry1971[97][124]
25Basdev Singh Mankotia 28 Infantry1971[97][125]
26S. K. Gupta 30 Infantry1971 (posthumous)[97]
27Inder Bal Singh Bawa 30 Infantry1971 (posthumous)[97][126]
28Devinder Singh Ahlawat 31 Infantry1971 (posthumous)[97][127]
29Vivek Gupta 802 Rajputana 1999 (posthumous)[97][128][129]
30Anuj Nayyar 90 17 Jat1999 (posthumous)[97]
31Gurjinder Singh Suri 90 12 Bihar2001 (posthumous)[97][130]
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Vir Chakra

One hundred sixty NDA alumni have been awarded the Vir Chakra, India's third-highest wartime award. Of these, 96 are from the Army, 13 from the Navy and 51 from the Air Force. Notable recipients include Admiral Laxmi Narayan Ramdas, Admiral Vijai Singh Shekhawat and Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat.[131]

Peacetime award recipients

As of October 2016, 11 Ashok Chakras, 40 Kirti Chakras and 135 Shaurya Chakras have been awarded to NDA officers.[14][91][132][133]

Ashok Chakra

Eleven NDA officers have received the Ashok Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry award. Of them, one is from the Air Force and the remainder are from the Army. Ten officers received the award posthumously.[91] Wing commander Rakesh Sharma of the Air Force is the only living NDA Air Force officer to receive the award.[134][135]

No. Name Course number Unit Notes
1Rakesh Sharma 35 Indian Air ForceOnly Indian national to go into space; Hero of the Soviet Union[134][135][136][137]
2Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair 38 16 Maratha Light Infantry1994 (posthumous); Kirti Chakra (1983)[138][139][140]
3 Sudhir Kumar Walia 729 Para (SF) 2000 (posthumous); Sena Medal recipient[141][142]
4Arjun Singh Jasrotia 73 9 Para (SF)1996 (posthumous); Sena Medal recipient[141][143]
5 Rajiv Kumar Joon 78 22 Grenadiers1995 (posthumous); Shaurya Chakra recipient[144][145][146]
6Rakesh Singh 79 22 Grenadiers1993 (posthumous)[147][139]
7 Puneet Nath Datt 87 1/11 Gorkha Rifles 1997 (posthumous)[148]
8Mohit Sharma 951 Para (SF) 2010 (posthumous); Sena Medal recipient[149][150][151][152]
9 Dinesh Raghu Raman 95 Rashtriya Rifles 2008 (posthumous); COAS commendation[153][154][155]
10 Sandeep Unnikrishnan 94 7 Bihar
51 SAG (NSG)		 2009 (posthumous), Operation Black Tornado[156][157][158][145][159][160][161]
11 Radhakrishnan Nair Harshan1012 Para (SF) 2007 (posthumous)[162][163]
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Kirti Chakra

Forty NDA alumni have received the Kirti Chakra, India's second-highest peacetime gallantry award. Of these, seven are from the Air Force and the remainder from the Army.[132] Notable recipients include Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair, who is also an Ashok Chakra recipient.[140]

Shaurya Chakra

A total of 135 NDA alumni have received the Shaurya Chakra, India's third-highest peacetime gallantry award. Eighty-nine are from the Army, 18 from the Navy and 28 from the Air Force.[133] Notable recipients include Major Rajiv Kumar Joon, who is also an Ashok Chakra recipient.[164]

Others

Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
No. Name Military awards Course number Notes
1Arogyaswami PaulrajAVSM, VSM25Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, USA; Padma Bhushan recipient; 2011 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal; 2014 Marconi Prize; Developed MIMO Wireless Technology used in all Mobile and WiFi Syatems[165][166]
2 Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore AVSM79 Minister of State for Information & Broadcasting; Member of Parliament from Jaipur, Rajasthan; Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna Award recipient; Padma Shri recipient; Arjuna Award recipient; Silver medal in men's double trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics; 3 gold medals and 1 silver medal in the Commonwealth Games;[lower-alpha 13] 1 silver and 1 bronze medal in the Asian Games[lower-alpha 14][167][168][169][170][171][172][173]

Notes

Footnotes

  1. ↑ PVSM—Param Vishisht Seva Medal
  2. ↑ VSM—Vishisht Seva Medal
  3. ↑ AVSM—Ati Vishisht Seva Medal
  4. ↑ ADC—Aide-de-camp
  5. ↑ UYSM—Uttam Yudh Seva Medal
  6. ↑ YSM—Yudh Seva Medal
  7. ↑ VrC—Vir Chakra
  8. ↑ NM—Nao Sena Medal
  9. ↑ VM—Vayusena Medal
  10. ↑ MVC—Maha Vir Chakra
  11. 1 2 List arranged by course number, then by rank.
  12. 1 2 Rank is that held by the officer on the date of the award or action.
  13. ↑ Two gold medals: one in double trap individual and double trap pairs at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. One gold and one silver medal in double trap individual and double trap pairs, respectively, at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
  14. ↑ One silver and one bronze medal in double trap teams and double trap, respectively, at the 2006 Asian Games.

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