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

• General K.S. Thimayya
• General G.G. Bewoor
• General Vishwa Nath Sharma
• General Sundararajan Padmanabhan
• General Gul Hasan, Commander-in-Chief, Pakistan Army

Chief of Air Staff

• Air Chief Marshal N.C. Suri
• Air Marshal Asghar Khan, PAF
• Air Marshal Nur Khan, PAF
• Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa

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

• Air Marshal Balakrishnan Suresh, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, AOC-in-C Western Air Command and Southern Air Command

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

• Lt General Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (Pakistan Army)

Commandant IMA

• Lt Gen M.A. Zaki
• Lt Gen Manvendra Singh, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Ex- GOC 5 Mtn Div & Ex-GOC Delhi Area)

Indian National Army

• Maj General Jaganath Rao Bhonsle
• Burhan-ud-Din
• Maj General Shah Nawaz Khan

Gallantry awards

Victoria Cross

• Lt Gen Premindra Singh Bhagat, PVSM, VC

Distinguished Service Order

• Gen Kodandera Subayya Thimayya, DSO
• Maj Gen Thakur Mahadeo Singh, DSO
• Brig Vidya Dhar Jayal, DSO

Param Vir Chakra

• Major Somnath Sharma

Vir Chakra

• Lt Gen M.A. Zaki

Civilian awards

Padma Vibhushan

• General K.S. Thimayya

Padma Bhushan

• Joginder Singh Dhillon
• K.P. Candeth
• Gopal Gurunath Bewoor

Padma Shri

• Lt General M.A. Zaki
• Lt General K.P. Candeth

Sports

• Ritwik Bhattacharya, a world top 50 Squash player

Ministers

• Maj General Shah Nawaz Khan, Minister of Railways, Central Government
• Maj General J.K. Bhonsle, Minister of Rehabilitation, Central Government
• Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, Foreign Minister, Pakistan
• Naseerullah Babar, Interior Minister, Pakistan

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

• Maj Gen Ashok Mehta, Author & Commentator
• Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee, Author & Commentator

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

1. 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 .