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PVSM for 19 Army officers

CHANDIGARH: The General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, (GOC-in-C), Army Training Command (ARTRAC), Lt Gen Sanjiv Madhok, a Guards officer of December 1975 seniority, is among the 19 top Army officers who will be conferred the Param Vashisht Seva Medal (PVSM) for distinguished service.



Chandigarh, January 25

The General Officer Commanding-in-Chief, (GOC-in-C), Army Training Command (ARTRAC), Lt Gen Sanjiv Madhok, a Guards officer of December 1975 seniority, is among the 19 top Army officers who will be conferred the Param Vashisht Seva Medal (PVSM) for distinguished service. Vice-Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen Philip Campose, a Mechanised Infantry officer of the 1974 seniority who had also served as the GOC-in-C, Western Command earlier, and Lt Gen Manvendra Singh, a Guards officer presently serving as the Commandant of the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, are among other officers of the region to be awarded the PVSM.

Lt Gen RP Shahi, a Guards officer posted as the General Officer Commanding of the Ambala-based 2 Corps, and Lt Gen Praveen Bakshi, an Armoured Corps officer who recently moved as Chief of Staff of Headquarters Northern Command after serving as the GOC 9 Corps, Yol, have been awarded the Ati Vashisht Seva Medal (AVSM).

Lt Gen BS Sachar, Chief of Staff of ARTRAC and Colonel of the Punjab Regiment, has been awarded the AVSM.

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