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412 gallantry awards
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- President of India has approved 412 gallantry awards and other defence decorations to armed forces personnel and others.
- Major Shubhang and Naik Jitendra Singh will receive the Kirti Chakra award.
- Cdr Nishant Singh from the Navy, who lost his life in a MiG-29K fighter crash, will be remembered with the Nao Sena Medal.
- The awards include:
- six Kirti Chakras (four - posthumous),
- 15 Shaurya Chakras (two - posthumous),
- 93 Sena Medals (Gallantry) (four - posthumous),
- One Nao Sena Medal (Gallantry) posthumous,
- seven Vayu Sena Medals (Gallantry),
- 29 Param Vishisht Seva Medals (PVSM),
- three Uttam Yudh Seva Medals (UYSM),
- 53 Ati Vishisht Seva Medals (AVSM),
- 10 Yudh Seva Medals (YSM),
- 40 Sena Medals (Devotion to Duty),
- 13 Nao Sena Medals (Devotion to Duty) (five of them - posthumous),
- 14 Vayu Sena Medals (Devotion to Duty) and
- 128 Vishisht Seva Medals (VSM).
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