List of Rimcollians explained
The following is a list of some of the prominent alumni of Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun, India. All students who graduate from this school are called Rimcollians.
Chief of Army Staff
Chief of Air Staff
Vice Chief of Army Staff
- Lt General S. K. Singh, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, ADC & Administrative Member, Armed Forces Tribunal
- Lt General Chandi Prasad Mohanty PVSM,AVSM,SM,VSM is a General Officer in the Indian Army.
Vice Chief of Air Staff
- Air Marshal Vinod Patney, SYSM, PVSM, AVSM, VrC, ADC, Ex-VCAS & Ex-AOC-in-C Western Air Command[1]
GOC-in-C & GOC
- Lt. General Premindra Singh Bhagat, PVSM, VC, GOC-in-C Central Command
- Lt. General K.P. Candeth, GOC-in-C Western Command, Famous as the liberator of Goa
- Lt. General Joginder Singh Dhillon, Padma Bhushan, GOC-in-C Central Command
- Lt. General Chandi Prasad Mohanty, AVSM, SM, VSM.
- Lt. General Bikram Singh, GOC XV Corps killed in the 1963 Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter crash
- Lt.General Khwaja Wasiuddin.HPK.SPK Commander II Corps. Pakistan Army.
- Lieutenant General Nav Kumar Khanduri AVSM, VSM
AOC-in-C & AOC
Adjutant General
- Major General Hira Lal Atal
- Lt. General M.M. Lakhera, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Ex - Governor of Mizoram, Ex- Lt. Governor of Pondicherry, & Ex- Lt. Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands (additional charge).
- Major General Karam Singh, PVSM, SM, Dy Adjutant General
Engineer-in-Chief
Gallantry awards
Victoria Cross
Distinguished Service Order
Param Vir Chakra
Vir Chakra
Civilian awards
Padma Vibhushan
Padma Bhushan
Padma Shri
Sports
Ministers
Diplomats and Civil servants
- Shaharyar Khan, Foreign Secretary, Head of Pakistan's Diplomatic Corps
- Ashwani Kumar, Former Director CBI, Governor of Nagaland (21 March 2013 – 27 June 2014)
- Rajiv Ratan, IPS, Additional Director General of Police, Telangana State
- Lt Gen MM Lakhera, Lt Governor Puducherry and Governor of Mizoram, PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Authors and Academicians
References
- Where Gallantry is Tradition: Saga of Rashtriya Indian Military College, By Bikram Singh, Sidharth Mishra, Contributor Rashtriya Indian Military College, Published 1997 by Allied Publishers, Military education, 232 pages,
Notes and References
- Web site: Air Marshal Vinod Patney . 2014-10-30 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141115051939/http://www.bharat-rakshak.com/HEROISM/Patney.html . 15 November 2014 . dmy-all .