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1. -Done By K.SUBHASHREE (8-B) Gallantry Awards

2. Introduction

3. These gallantry awards are announced twice in a year - first on the occasion of the Republic Day and then on the occasion of the Independence Day.

4. Order of precedence of these awards is the Param Vir Chakra, the Ashoka Chakra, the Mahavir Chakra, the KirtiChakra , the Vir Chakra and the Shaurya Chakra.

5. 1-Param V ir Chakra Vikram Batra (9 September 1974-7 July 1999) was an Indian Army officer. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, the highest Indian military decoration, for his actions during the Kargil War: on 7 July 1999. Batra was killed while fighting Pakistani troops around Area Ledge. Point 4875, in the Kargil district of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir.

6. 2-maha V ir Chakra Born July 4, 1974 Ambala district, Haryana, India Allegiance Republic of India Service/branch Indian Army Years of service 1997-1999 Rank Captain Unit Army Ordnance Corps on attachment with 12 Bihar Battles/wars Kargil War Operation Vijay Awards Maha Vir Chakra Died 9-Nov-1999 (aged 25) Jammu & Kashmir, India † Service number IC-56980

7. Air Vice-Marshal Ranjan Dutt , one of a small number of Indian pilots to have flown operationally in Europe during World War II, passed away in Chennai on 13 August 2009. He was 87.A swashbuckling archetypal fighter pilot, AVM Dutt flew a number of iconic World War II aircraft types, flew from a number of equally iconic RAF bases, served in Burma and Kashmir, and went on to senior positions in the post-Independence Indian Air Force. During his career, he encountered and worked with aviation figures such as Douglas Bader, Roland Beamont , and Kurt Tank, and with public figures such as Jawaharlal Nehru, VK Krishna Menon and Alexei Kosygin. He was probably the first Indian to fly jets, and among the first to break the sound barrier. Ranjan Dutt was born in 1922. He schooled at the Prince of Wales's Royal Indian Military College (now the Rashtriya Indian Military College), in Dehra Dun, the alma mater of numerous distinguished Indian and Pakistani militaryfigures . He learned flying privately while still a schoolboy, and received his "A" licence at the age of 16. 3 - V ir Chakra