List of National Defence Academy alumni

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]

The Sudan Block of NDA

NDA is not the only 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]

Similarly, the Aeronautical Engineers (Electronics) and Aeronautical Engineers (Mechanical) are trained at the Air Force Technical College at Jalahalli, Bengaluru; the Meteorological branch officer cadets get their training at Air Force Administrative College, Coimbatore.

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 32 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
Admiral Arun Prakash
Admiral Robin Kumar Dhowan
Admiral Sunil Lanba
Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik
Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne
Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha

As of October 2019, the academy has produced twelve Chiefs of the Army Staff (COAS), Eleven Chiefs of the Naval Staff (CNS) and Nine Chiefs of the Air Staff (CAS). All incumbent service chiefs (Chief of the Army Staff General Manoj Mukund Naravane, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Karambir Singh and Chief of the Air Staff ACM Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria ) are NDA alumni.[15]

Chief of the Army Staff
No. Name Awards Course number Notes[15]
1Sunith Francis Rodrigues PVSM,[lower-alpha 1] VSM[lower-alpha 2]132nd Governor of Punjab[16][17]
2Bipin Chandra Joshi PVSM, AVSM,[lower-alpha 3] ADC[lower-alpha 4]5[18][19]
3Shankar Roy Chowdhury PVSM, ADC10Former Rajya Sabha member[20][21][22]
4Ved Prakash Malik PVSM, AVSM14[23][24]
5Sundararajan Padmanabhan PVSM, AVSM, VSM15[25]
6Nirmal Chander Vij PVSM, UYSM,[lower-alpha 5] AVSM21Former National Disaster Management Authority vice-chair; Vivekananda International Foundation director[26][27][28][29]
7Joginder Jaswant Singh PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC2514th Governor of Arunachal Pradesh[30]
8Deepak Kapoor PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC30[31]
9Vijay Kumar Singh PVSM, AVSM, YSM,[lower-alpha 6] ADC36Union 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[32][33][34][35]
10Bikram Singh PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC, LoM40[36][37]
11Dalbir Singh PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC, LoM44[38][39]
12Bipin Rawat PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM, ADC53Current CDS
13 Manoj Mukund Naravane PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC 56 Current COAS[40]

Chief of the Naval Staff
No. Name Awards Course number Notes[15]
1Laxmi Narayan Ramdas PVSM, AVSM, VrC,[lower-alpha 7] VSM, ADC12004 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding[41]
2Vijai Singh Shekhawat PVSM, AVSM, VrC, ADC7Former Vice Chairman of Outward Bound India;[42] Vivekananda International Foundation advisory board member[43]
3Vishnu Bhagwat PVSM, AVSM, ADC14[44]
4Sushil Kumar PVSM, AVSM, UYSM, YSM, NM,[lower-alpha 8] VSM, ADC16[45]
5Madhvendra Singh PVSM, AVSM, ADC20[28]
6Arun Prakash PVSM, AVSM, VrC, VSM, ADC26[46]
7Sureesh Mehta PVSM, AVSM, ADC29Former High Commissioner to New Zealand[47][48]
8Nirmal Kumar Verma PVSM, AVSM3524th High Commissioner to Canada[49][50]
9Robin Kumar Dhowan PVSM, AVSM, YSM, ADC45[51]
10Sunil Lanba PVSM, AVSM, ADC51[52]
11 Karambir Singh PVSM, AVSM, ADC 56 Current - CNS[53][54][55]

Chief of the Air Staff
No. Name Awards Course number Notes[15]
1Nirmal Chandra Suri PVSM, AVSM, VM,[lower-alpha 9] ADC1[56]
2Swaroop Krishna Kaul PVSM, MVC,[lower-alpha 10] ADC5Maha Vir Chakra recipient[57]
3Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC12[58]
4Anil Yashwant Tipnis PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC15[59]
5Pradeep Vasant Naik PVSM, VSM, ADC33[60]
6Norman Anil Kumar Browne PVSM, VM, ADC39Ambassador to Norway[61][62]
7Arup Raha PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC44[63][15]
8Birender Singh Dhanoa PVSM, AVSM, YSM, VM, ADC52[64]
9 Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC 56 Current CAS [65]

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.[66]

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[67]
1Gurbachan Singh Salaria 103/1 Gorkha Rifles1961[68]
2Arun Khetarpal 3817 Poona Horse1971[69]
3Manoj Kumar Pandey 901/11 Gorkha Rifles1999[70]

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. Air Force squadron leader Padmanabha Gautam is the only NDA officer to receive the award twice, in 1965 and 1971 (posthumously).[71]

No. Name Course number Unit Year[72]
1Raj Mohan Vohra 1Armoured Corps1971[73]
2Hanut Singh 1Armoured Corps1971[74]
3Kulwant Singh Pannu 1Infantry1971[75]
4Narinder Singh Sandhu 2Infantry1971[76]
5Padmanabha Gautam 3Indian Air Force1965, 1971[lower-alpha 11][71]
6Sushil Kumar Mathur 3Artillery1965[77][78]
7Sukhjit Singh 4Armoured Corps1971[79]
8Shamsher Singh 5Infantry1971[80]
9Raj Kumar Singh 5Infantry1971[81]
10H. C. Pathak 5Infantry1971[82]
11Swaroop Krishna Kaul 5Indian Air Force1971[83][84]
12Ved Prakash Ghai 5Infantry1971[lower-alpha 11][85]
13Surinder Kapoor 7Infantry1971[86]
14Ved Prakash Airy 8Infantry1972[87]
15Bhaskar Roy 9Armoured Corps1965[88]
16Daljit Singh Narang 9Armoured Corps1972[lower-alpha 11]
17Santosh Kumar Gupta 10Indian Navy1971[89]
18Vijay Rattan Choudhry 13Corps of Engineers1971
19Vijay Kumar Berry 14Infantry1971[90]
20Manjit Singh 19Infantry1987[91]
21Bhagwan Dutt Dogra 20Infantry1962[92]
22Amarjit Singh Bal 22Armoured Corps1971[93]
23Gautam Mubayi 23Infantry1965[lower-alpha 11][94]
24Pradip Kumar Gour 25Infantry1971[95]
25Basdev Singh Mankotia 28Infantry1971[96]
26S. K. Gupta 30Infantry1971[lower-alpha 11][72]
27Inder Bal Singh Bawa 30Infantry1971[lower-alpha 11][97]
28Devinder Singh Ahlawat 31Infantry1971[lower-alpha 11][98]
29Vivek Gupta 802 Rajputana1999[lower-alpha 11][99]
30Anuj Nayyar 9017 Jat1999[lower-alpha 11]
31Gurjinder Singh Suri 9012 Bihar2001[lower-alpha 11][100]
[lower-alpha 12][lower-alpha 13]

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, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman and Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat.[101] & Lt Gen Yogesh Kumar Joshi.

Peacetime award recipients

As of October 2016, 11 Ashok Chakras,[14] 40 Kirti Chakras,[102] and 135 Shaurya Chakras,[103] have been awarded to NDA officers.[66]

Ashoka 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.[66] Wing commander Rakesh Sharma of the Air Force is the only living NDA Air Force officer to receive the award.[104][105]

No. Name Course number Unit Notes
1Rakesh Sharma 35Indian Air ForceOnly Indian national to go into space; Hero of the Soviet Union[104][105][106]
2Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair 3816 Maratha Light Infantry1994;[lower-alpha 11] Kirti Chakra (1983)[107][108]
3Sudhir Kumar Walia 729 Para (SF)2000;[lower-alpha 11] Sena Medal recipient[109][110]
4Arjun Singh Jasrotia 739 Para (SF)1996;[lower-alpha 11] Sena Medal recipient[109][111]
5Rajiv Kumar Joon 7822 Grenadiers1995;[lower-alpha 11] Shaurya Chakra recipient[112][113]
6Rakesh Singh 7922 Grenadiers1993[lower-alpha 11][114][107]
7Puneet Nath Datt 871/11 Gorkha Rifles1997[lower-alpha 11][115]
8Mohit Sharma 951 Para (SF)2010;[lower-alpha 11] Sena Medal recipient[116][117]
9Dinesh Raghu Raman 95Rashtriya Rifles2008;[lower-alpha 11] COAS commendation[118][119]
10Sandeep Unnikrishnan 947 Bihar
51 SAG (NSG)		2009,[lower-alpha 11] Operation Black Tornado[120][121][122][123]
11Radhakrishnan Nair Harshan 1012 Para (SF)2007[lower-alpha 11][124]
[lower-alpha 12][lower-alpha 13]

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.[102] Notable recipients include Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair, who is also an Ashok Chakra recipient[108] Lieutenant colonel Nectar Sanjenbam who is also a Shaurya Chakra recipient.

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.[103] Notable recipients include Major Rajiv Kumar Joon, who is also an Ashok Chakra recipient.[125]

Others
Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
No. Name Military awards Course number Notes
1Arogyaswami Paulraj AVSM, VSM25Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, USA; Padma Bhushan recipient; 2011 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal; 2014 Marconi Prize; Developed MIMO wireless technology widely used in 4G and WiFi devices[126][127]
2Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore AVSM79Minister 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 14] 1 silver and 1 bronze medal in the Asian Games[lower-alpha 15][128][129][130][131][132][133][134]
3Ian Cardozo AVSM, SM12First NDA cadet to receive both Gold and Silver medals;[135] First war-disabled officer of the Indian Army to command a battalion and a brigade

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. Posthumous
  12. List arranged by course number, then by rank.
  13. Rank is that held by the officer on the date of the award or action.
  14. 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.
  15. One silver and one bronze medal in double trap teams and double trap, respectively, at the 2006 Asian Games.

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