{"id":173306,"date":"2025-06-14T14:39:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T09:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=173306"},"modified":"2025-06-14T14:39:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T09:09:41","slug":"president-murmu-confers-39-gallantry-awards-for-bravery-and-valour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/president-murmu-confers-39-gallantry-awards-for-bravery-and-valour\/","title":{"rendered":"President Murmu Confers 39 Gallantry Awards for Bravery and Valour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President Murmu, during the Defence Investiture Ceremony 2025, conferred 6 Kirti Chakras and 33 Shaurya Chakras on personnel from the Indian Army, Navy, Air Force, CRPF, and J&amp;K Police for their gallantry in anti-terror and counter-insurgency operations in Jammu &amp; Kashmir, the North-East, and other strategic regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Points<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Total Awards Conferred:<\/strong>\u00a06 Kirti Chakras (4 posthumous), 33 Shaurya Chakras (7 posthumous)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Awardees: Indian Army, Indian Air Force, Indian Navy, CRPF, Assam Rifles, J&amp;K Police, BRO<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Award Categories<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Kirti Chakra:<\/strong>\u00a02 living, 4 posthumous<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Shaurya Chakra:<\/strong>\u00a026 living, 7 posthumous<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kirti Chakra<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Second-highest peacetime gallantry award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Awarded for conspicuous gallantry away from the battlefield<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recipients (Examples)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Living:<\/strong>\u00a0Major Malla Rama Gopal Naidu, Major Manjit (Indian Army)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Posthumous:<\/strong>\u00a0Colonel Manpreet Singh, DSP Himayun Muzzammil Bhat, Rifleman Ravi Kumar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Shaurya Chakra<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Third-highest peacetime gallantry award<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conferred for acts of valor during internal security and counter-terror operations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Recipients (Examples)<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Living:<\/strong>\u00a0Squadron Leader Deepak Kumar (IAF), Wing Commander Vernon D. Keane, Major Vijay Verma, Inspector Jeffrey Hmingchullo (CRPF)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Posthumous:<\/strong>\u00a0Major Aashish Dhonchak, Sepoy Pardeep Singh, Constable Devan C<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Murmu, during the Defence Investiture Ceremony 2025, conferred 6 Kirti Chakras and 33 Shaurya Chakras on personnel from the Indian Army, Navy, Air Force, CRPF, and J&amp;K Police for their gallantry in anti-terror and counter-insurgency operations in Jammu &amp; Kashmir, the North-East, and other strategic regions. Key Points Award Categories Kirti Chakra Recipients (Examples) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":173307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5372],"tags":[4925],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-173306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-may-2025","tag-awards-honours-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173308,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173306\/revisions\/173308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173306"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=173306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}