List of National Defence Academy alumni explained

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]

NDA is not the only officer training academy in India. Besides NDA, which is tri-service academy, the Indian Army's IMA,[2] Officers Training Academy (OTA),[3] [4] Army Cadet College (ACC), the Indian Navy's INA,[5] 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),[6] Military College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCTE),[7] and Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME).[8] Although cadets are imparted technical training at these three academies, they are commissioned through OTA, Gaya.[9] 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,[10] and the Judge Advocate General's Department for example.[11]

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. Alumni include three Param Vir Chakra recipients and twelve Ashoka Chakra recipients.[12] The NDA has produced 36 service chiefs of staff, including the incumbent chiefs of staff of the Army, Navy and Air Force.

Chiefs of staff

, the academy has produced fourteen Chiefs of the Army Staff (COAS), twelve Chiefs of the Naval Staff (CNS) and ten Chiefs of the Air Staff (CAS). All incumbent service chiefs (Chief of the Army Staff General Manoj Pande, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Radhakrishnan Hari Kumar and Chief of the Air Staff ACM Vivek Ram Chaudhari) are NDA alumni.

Chief of the Army Staff

scope=colNo.scope=col style="width:25%;"NameAwardsscope=col Course numberNotes
1 Sunith Francis RodriguesPVSM, VSM126th Governor of Punjab[13]
2Bipin Chandra JoshiPVSM, AVSM, ADC5[14]
3Shankar Roy ChowdhuryPVSM, ADC10Former Rajya Sabha member[15] [16]
4Ved Prakash MalikPVSM, AVSM14[17]
5Sundararajan Padmanabhan15[18]
6Nirmal Chander VijPVSM, UYSM, AVSM21Former National Disaster Management Authority vice-chair; Vivekananda International Foundation director[19] [20] [21] [22]
7Joginder Jaswant SinghPVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC2514th Governor of Arunachal Pradesh[23]
8Deepak KapoorPVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC30[24]
9Vijay Kumar SinghPVSM, AVSM, YSM, 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[25] [26] [27] [28]
10Bikram SinghPVSM, UYSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC, LoM40[29] [30]
11PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC, LoM44[31] [32]
12Bipin RawatPVSM, UYSM, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM, ADC53Former CDS
13Manoj Mukund NaravanePVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM, ADC56Former COAS[33]
14Manoj PandePVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC61Former COAS

Chief of the Naval Staff

scope=col No.scope=col style="width:25%;"Name Awardsscope=col Course numberNotes
1Laxmi Narayan RamdasPVSM, AVSM, VrC, VSM, ADC12004 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding[34]
2Vijai Singh ShekhawatPVSM, AVSM, VrC, ADC7Former Vice Chairman of Outward Bound India;[35] Vivekananda International Foundation advisory board member[36]
3Vishnu BhagwatPVSM, AVSM, ADC14[37]
4Sushil KumarPVSM, AVSM, UYSM, YSM, NM, VSM, ADC16[38]
5Madhvendra SinghPVSM, AVSM, ADC20
6PVSM, AVSM, VrC, VSM, ADC26[39]
729Former High Commissioner to New Zealand[40] [41]
8Nirmal Kumar VermaPVSM, AVSM3524th High Commissioner to Canada[42] [43]
9PVSM, AVSM, YSM, ADC45[44]
10PVSM, AVSM, ADC51 [45]
11Karambir SinghPVSM, AVSM, ADC56former CNS[46] [47] [48]
12Radhakrishnan Hari KumarPVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC61Incumbent

Chief of the Air Staff

scope=col No. scope=col style="width:25%;"NameAwardsscope=col style="width:12%;"Course numberNotes
1Nirmal Chandra SuriPVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC1[49]
2Swaroop Krishna KaulPVSM, MVC, ADC5Maha Vir Chakra recipient[50]
3Satish Kumar SareenPVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC12[51]
4Anil Yashwant TipnisPVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC15[52]
5Pradeep Vasant NaikPVSM, VSM, ADC33[53]
6Norman Anil Kumar BrownePVSM, VM, ADC39Ambassador to Norway[54] [55]
7Arup Raha44[56] [57]
8Birender Singh DhanoaPVSM, AVSM, YSM, VM, ADC52[58]
9Rakesh Kumar Singh BhadauriaPVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC56Former CAS[59]
10Vivek Ram ChaudhariPVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC61Incumbent

Wartime award recipients

, 3 Param Vir Chakras, 32 Maha Vir Chakras and 163 Vir Chakras have been awarded to NDA officers.[60]

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.[61]

scope=col No. scope=col Name scope=col Course numberUnitYear[62]
1Gurbachan Singh Salaria93/1 Gorkha Rifles1961
23817 Poona Horse1971
3Manoj Kumar Pandey901/11 Gorkha Rifles1999[63]

Maha Vir Chakra

32 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).

scope=col No.scope=col Name scope=col Course number Unit Year[64]
1Raj Mohan Vohra 1Armoured Corps1971
2Hanut Singh1Armoured Corps1971
3Kulwant Singh Pannu1Infantry1971
4Narinder Singh Sandhu2Infantry1971
5Padmanabha Gautam3Indian Air Force1965, 1971
6Sushil Kumar Mathur3Artillery1965
7Sukhjit Singh4Armoured Corps1971
8Shamsher Singh5Infantry1971
9Raj Kumar Singh5Infantry1971
10H. C. Pathak5Infantry1971
11Swaroop Krishna Kaul5Indian Air Force1971[65]
12Ved Prakash Ghai5Infantry1971
13Surinder Kapoor7Infantry1971
14Ved Prakash Airy8Infantry1972
15Bhaskar Roy9Armoured Corps1965
16Daljit Singh Narang9Armoured Corps1972
17Santosh Kumar Gupta10Indian Navy1971
18Vijay Rattan Choudhry13Corps of Engineers1971
19Vijay Kumar Berry14Infantry1971
20Manjit Singh19Infantry1987
21Bhagwan Dutt Dogra20Infantry1962
22Amarjit Singh Bal22Armoured Corps1971
23Gautam Mubayi23Infantry1965
24Pradip Kumar Gour25Infantry1971
25Basdev Singh Mankotia28Infantry1971[66]
26S. K. Gupta30Infantry1971
27Inder Bal Singh Bawa30Infantry1971
28Devinder Singh Ahlawat31Infantry1971
29Vivek Gupta801999[67]
30Anuj Nayyar9017 Jat1999
31Gurjinder Singh Suri9012 Bihar2001
32Bikkumalla Santosh Babu10516 Bihar2021[68]

Vir Chakra

163 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 54 from the Air Force. Notable recipients include Admiral Laxmi Narayan Ramdas, Admiral Vijai Singh Shekhawat, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman and Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat.[69] & Lt Gen Yogesh Kumar Joshi.

Peacetime award recipients

, 12 Ashok Chakras, 45 Kirti Chakras,[70] and 152 Shaurya Chakras,[71] have been awarded to NDA officers.

Ashoka Chakra

Twelve 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. Eleven officers received the award posthumously. Wing commander Rakesh Sharma of the Air Force is the only living NDA Air Force officer to receive the award.

scope=col No.scope=col Namescope=col Course numberUnitNotes
1Pollur Mutthuswamy Raman103 Sikh LiCI Ops Naga Hill-03 Jun 1956
2Rakesh Sharma35Indian Air Force1985; Only non-army and IAF NDA recipient Only Indian national to go into space; Hero of the Soviet Union[72] [73]
3Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair3816 Maratha Light Infantry1994; Kirti Chakra (1983)[74]
4Sudhir Kumar Walia729 Para (SF)2000; Sena Medal recipient[75]
5Arjun Singh Jasrotia739 Para (SF)1996; Sena Medal recipient[76]
6Rajiv Kumar Joon7822 Grenadiers1995; Shaurya Chakra recipient
7Rakesh Singh7922 Grenadiers1993
8Puneet Nath Datt871/11 Gorkha Rifles1997[77]
9Mohit Sharma951 Para (SF)2010; Sena Medal recipient[78]
10Dinesh Raghu Raman95Rashtriya Rifles2008; COAS commendation[79] [80]
11Sandeep Unnikrishnan947 Bihar
51 SAG (NSG)		2009, Operation Black Tornado[81] [82]
12Radhakrishnan Nair Harshan1012007[83]

Kirti Chakra

Forty five NDA alumni have received the Kirti Chakra, India's second-highest peacetime gallantry award. Notable recipients include Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair, who is also an Ashok Chakra recipient Lieutenant colonel Nectar Sanjenbam who is also a Shaurya Chakra recipient.http://gallantryawards.gov.in/Awardee/nectar-sanjenbam-sc

Shaurya Chakra

A total of 152 NDA alumni have received the Shaurya Chakra, India's third-highest peacetime gallantry award. Notable recipients include Major Rajiv Kumar Joon, who is also an Ashok Chakra recipient.[84]

Others

scope=col No.scope=col Name Military awardsscope=col Course numberNotes
1Arogyaswami PaulrajAVSM, VSM25Professor Emeritus, Stanford University, USA; 2010 Padma Bhushan recipient; 2011 IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal; 2014 Marconi Prize; 2018 United States Patent and Trademark Office, National Inventors Hall of Fame; 2023 IET Faraday Medal; Project lead for APSOH sonar developed for the Indian Navy 1977–83, APSOH was the most advanced sonar system in the world in its class. Later in the US, developed MIMO wireless, the core technology behind 4G/5G mobile and WiFi networks. MIMO triggered massive R&D investments worldwide and is now used universally[85] [86]
2Rajyavardhan Singh RathoreAVSM77 Minister 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; 1 silver and 1 bronze medal in the Asian Games[87] [88] [89] [90] [91] [92]
3Ian CardozoAVSM, SM12 First NDA cadet to receive both gold and silver medals;[93] First war-disabled officer of the Indian Army to command a battalion and a brigade

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