Vir Chakra Award

Vir Chakra Award is India's third last military award during wartime, after Param Vir Chakra and Maha Vir Chakra. The award is given by the Indian wartime military bravery award. This award is called War-Time Gallantry Award. The medal is a 1-3/8 inch circular silver medal. The award was first started by Indian Army TGN Pai (Captain) on 26 January 1950. Here we can learn about the Vir Chakra Award and also play the Vir Chakra Quiz. This Quiz makes you more interesting. List of the Vir Chakra Awards is given below.



List of Vir Chakra Award

List of Vir Chakra Award


List of the Vir Chakra Awards is given below.


Vir Chakra

DateAchievers NamesService
1950TGN PaiIndian Army
1971Vikram DeuskarIndian Army
1950Tirath Singh OberoiIndian Army
1948Harbaksh SinghIndian Army
1962Krishan Kant SainiIndian Air Force
1965Zorawar Chand BakshiIndian Army
1965Trevor KeelorIndian Air Force
1965Virendera Singh PathaniaIndian Air Force
1965Alfred Tyrone CookeIndian Air Force
1965Ganesh Datt JoshiIndian Army
1965Denzil KeelorIndian Air Force
1965Mohammad Ahmad ZakiIndian Army
1971Laxminarayan RamdassIndian Navy
1971Satish NambiarIndian Army
1971Jasjit SinghIndian Air Force
1971Ramesh Chander KohliIndian Air Force
1971Arun PrakashIndian Navy
1972M A GanapathyIndian Air force
1972Donald ‘Don’ LazarusIndian Air force
1972Lawrence Frederic PereiraIndian Air Force
1972Francis Tiburtius DiasIndian Army
1988Dalvir SinghIndian Army
1988Deepak AgarwalIndian Navy
1999Jintu GogoiIndian Army
1999Ajay AhujaIndian Air Force
1999Magod Basappa RavindranathIndian Army
1999Ramakrishnan VishwanathanIndian Army
1999Ram KumarIndian Army
1999Mariappan SaravananIndian Army
1999Lalit RaiIndian Army
1999Yogesh Kumar JoshiIndian Army
1999Roshan KumarIndian Army
1999Vijyant ThaparIndian Army
2000Chuni LalIndian Army
2019Abhinandan VarthamanIndian Air Force
2021Gurtej SinghIndian Army


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