Distinguished Service and Gallantry awards to IAF personnel on Republic Day - 2020

The following Indian Air Force personnel have been conferred with Distinguished Service and Gallantry awards by the President of India on the occasion of Republic Day 2020.

PARAM VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL

1. Air Marshal Raj Karan Singh Shera AVSM VSM (Retd)
2. Air Marshal Kuldeep Sharma AVSM VSM (Retd)
3. Air Marshal Harjit Singh Arora AVSM
4. Air Marshal Surendra Kumar Ghotia VSM
5. Air Marshal Rajiv Dayal Mathur AVSM VSM
6. Air Marshal Pradeep Padmakar Bapat VSM (Retd)

 

ATI VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL

1. Air Marshal Shashiker Choudhary VSM
2. Air Marshal Rajvir Singh VSM (Retd)
3. Air Vice Marshal Sanjeev Narayan Deshpande VM (Retd)
4. Air Vice Marshal Manoj Kumar Dixit VSM (Retd)
5. Air Vice Marshal Gurcharan Singh Bedi VM VSM
6. Air Vice Marshal Dilip Kumar Patnaik VM
7. Air Vice Marshal Amar Prasad Babu Guttikonda VM
8. Air Vice Marshal Bavisetti Chandra Sekhar
9. Air Vice Marshal Nikhil Ramesh Chitnis VSM (Retd)
10. Air Vice Marshal Sattaru Bhanoji Rao VSM (Retd)
11. Air Vice Marshal Laxmi Narain Sharma
12. Air Vice Marshal Makarand Ranade VM

 

VAYU SENA MEDAL (GALLANTRY)

1. Wing Commander Daler Singh Billing
2. Wing Commander Rajesh Agarwal
3. Squadron Leader Ninad Anil Mandavgane (Posthumous)
4. Squadron Leader Siddharth Vashisht (Posthumous)

 

BAR TO VAYU SENA MEDAL

1. Group Captain Subhash Singh Rao VM

 

VAYU SENA MEDAL

1. Group Captain Satish Kumar Gupta
2. Group Captain Aniruddha Nandan Karulkar
3. Group Captain Prabhat Malik
4. Group Captain Rohith Vijayadev
5. Group Captain Kosana Rama Rao
6. Group Captain Promeet Bose
7. Group Captain Girish Dantale
8. Group Captain Tarun Gupta
9. Group Captain Sumit Garg
10. Group Captain Mandetira Medaiah Bopanna
11. Group Captain Parijat Saurabh
12. Group Captain Neetin Kumar Vatsya
13. Group Captain Samit Gupta

 

VISHISHT SEVA MEDAL

1. Air Vice Marshal Daljit Singh
2. Air Vice Marshal Shanmugasundaram Anandan
3. Air Commodore Sambasivam Bhaskaran
4. Air Commodore Vijay V Joshi
5. Air Commodore Niraj Nainwal
6. Brigadier Sanjay Mathur
7. Group Captain Arindam Lahiri
8. Group Captain Vadapalli Ravi Satyanarayana Raju
9. Group Captain Nitin Yashwant Patil
10. Group Captain Deepak Ahluwalia
11. Group Captain Himanshu Gopal
12. Group Captain Anuj Gupta
13. Group Captain Anupam Banerjee
14. Group Captain Ashish Srivastava VM
15. Group Captain Yogesh Kalyan Dixit
16. Group Captain Mantha Srinivasa Rama Mohan
17. Group Captain Vikram Singh
18. Group Captain Manoj Kumar Rana
19. Group Captain Tushar Agrawal
20. Group Captain Tarun Desai
21. Group Captain Ajay Rana
22. Group Captain Raji Ranjan
23. Group Captain S Vinay Kumar
24. Group Captain Jaswant Patel
25. Group Captain Samrath Dhankhar
26. Wing Commander Achin Pillai
27. Wing Commander Sankarasubbu Siddharthan
28. Wing Commander Arun Singh
29. Junior Warrant Officer Kumar Chandra Shekhar

 

MENTION-IN-DESPATCHES

1. Wing Commander K Suryanarayanan
2. Sergeant Vikrant Sahrawat (Posthumous)
3. Sergeant Vishal Kumar Pandey (Posthumous)
4. Corporal Pankaj Kumar (Posthumous)
5. Corporal Deepak Pandey (Posthumous)