Kirti Chakra (KC) (1952-)

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Name	Kirti Chakra (KC)
Award For	Awarded for conspicuous gallantry otherwise than in the face of the enemy.
Award By	Republic of India
First Award	1952
First Awardee	Shri B.B.L. Datt, Flight Sergeant O. Sundaressiya, Sergeant Dev Raj Singh, Sergeant Ram Chandra Dua, Flight Lieutenant Ulrich Anthony D'Cruz, Sowar Prithi Singh, Major Gurcharan Singh, Sepoy Daryao, Sepoy Sewa Singh, Naik Hardial Singh, Havildar Amar Sing
Last Award	26th January 2026
Last Awardee	Group Captain Prashant Balakrishnan Nair, Naib Subedar Doleshwar Subba, Major Arshdeep Singh
Total Awarded	495
Status	active
Official URL	https://indianarmy.nic.in/

About Kirti Chakra (KC)

The Kirti Chakra is an Indian military decoration awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the field of battle. It may be awarded to civilians as well as military personnel, including posthumous awards. It is the peacetime equivalent of the Maha Vir Chakra. It is second in order of precedence of peacetime gallantry awards, comes after Ashoka Chakra and before Shaurya Chakra. Before 1967, the award was known as the Ashoka Chakra, Class II.

Kirti Chakra (KC) (1952-) Winners List

This Winners List features 495 winners of the Kirti Chakra (KC), from 1952 to 2026.

Year	Recipient Name	Service	Gender

2026	Group Captain Prashant Balakrishnan Nair	Indian Air Force	male
2026	Naib Subedar Doleshwar Subba	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
2026	Major Arshdeep Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2025	Captain L Sailo	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2025	Lieutenant Shashank Tiwari	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2025	Lance Naik Meenakshi Sundaram	Soldier	male
2025	Sepoy Janjal Pravin Prabhakar	Soldier	male
2025	Major Manjit	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2025	Naik Dilwar Khan	Soldier	male
2024	Major Malla Rama Gopal Naidu	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2024	Major Digvijay Singh Rawat	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2024	Colonel Manpreet Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2024	DSP Himayun Muzzammil Bhat	Police	male
2024	Rifleman Ravi Kumar	Infantry Soldier	male
2024	Major Deependra Vikram Basnet	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2024	Captain Anshuman Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2024	Havildar Pawan Kumar Yadav	Soldier	male
2024	Havildar Abdul Majid	Soldier	male
2024	Sepoy Pawan Kumar	Soldier	male
2023	Inspector Dilip Kumar Das	Police	male
2023	Head Constable Raj Kumar Yadava	Police	male
2023	Constable Bablu Rabha	Police	male
2023	Constable Sambhu Roy	Police	male
2023	Naik Jitendra Singh	Soldier	male
2023	Major Shubhang	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2023	Constable Rohit Kumar	Police	male
2023	Head Constable Shrawan Kashyap	Police	male
2023	Head Constable Sodhi Narayan	Police	male
2023	Sub Inspector Deepak Bhardwaj	Police	male
2022	Naik Devendra Pratap Singh	Soldier	male
2022	Sub Inspector Paotinsat Guite	Police	male
2022	Constable Sudip Sarkar	Police	male
2021	Constable Vinod Kumar	Police	male
2021	Constable Altaf Hussain Bhat	Police	male
2021	Head Constable Shyam Narain Singh Yadava	Police	male
2021	Inspector Pintu Kumar Singh	Police	male
2021	Deputy Commandant Rahul Mathur	CAPF / Paramilitary Force	male
2021	Subedar Sanjeev Kumar	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
2020	Head Constable Abdul Rashid Kalas	Police	male
2019	Constable Pradip Kumar Panda	Police	male
2019	Constable Rajendra Kumar Nain	Police	male
2019	Deputy Commandant Harshpal Singh	CAPF / Paramilitary Force	male
2019	Sapper Prakash Jadhav	Corps of Engineers Soldier	male
2019	Sawar Vijay Kumar	Armoured/Cavalry Soldier	male
2019	Major Tushar Gauba	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2018	Sepoy Vrahma Pal Singh	Soldier	male
2018	Major Vijayant Bisht	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2017	Commandant Chetan Kumar Cheeta	CAPF / Paramilitary Force Ranks	male
2017	Commandant Pramod Kumar	CAPF / Paramilitary Force Ranks	male
2017	Lance Havildar Prem Bahadur Resmi Magar	Soldier	male
2017	Havildar Giris Gurung	Soldier	male
2017	Major Rohit Suri	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2017	Major David Manlun	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2017	Major Preetam Singh Kunwar	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2016	Head Constable Rajesh Atra	Police	male
2016	Constable Gautam Koch	Police	male
2016	Sepoy Jagdish Chand	Soldier	male
2016	Subedar Mahendra Singh	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
2015	Naib Subedar Rajesh Kumar	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
2015	Lieutenant Colonel Nectar Sanjenbam	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2015	Naib Subedar Kosh Bahadur Gurung	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
2015	Subedar Ajay Vardhan	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
2015	Captain Jaidev Dangi	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2014	Constable Bhrigu Nandan Choudhary	Police	male
2014	Naib Subedar Bhupal Singh Chhantel Magar	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
2014	Wing Commander Darryl Castelino	Indian Air Force	male
2013	Inspector Lohit Sonowal	Police	male
2013	Lieutenant Commander Abhilash Tomy	Indian Navy Officer	male
2013	Major Mahesh Kumar	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2013	Major Anup Joseph Manjali	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2012	Lieutenant Sushil Khajuria	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2012	Captain Ashutosh Kumar	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2012	Lieutenant Colonel Kamaldeep Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2011	Naik Rajinder Singh	Soldier	male
2011	Lieutenant Vikas Sharma	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2011	Lieutenant Vikram Ajit Deshmukh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2011	Major Rahul Gurung	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2011	Captain Deepak Sharma	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2010	Kumari Rukhsana Kausar	Civilian	male
2010	Shri Ajaz Ahmed	Civilian	male
2010	Shri Bhopal Singh	Civilian	male
2010	Constable Rel Deo Sangma	Police	male
2010	Superintendent of Police Vinod Kumar Choubey	Police	male
2010	Captain Davinder Singh Jass	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2010	Major Suresh Suri	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2010	Major Pushpendar Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2009	Paratrooper Shabir Ahmad Malik	Parachute Regiment Soldier	male
2009	Major Deepak Tewari	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2009	Major Amit Oscar Fernandes	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2009	Naik Rishikesh Gurjar	Soldier	male
2009	Sapper V. Sathish	Corps of Engineers Soldier	male
2009	Naik Tape Yajo	Soldier	male
2009	Havildar Rale Santosh Tanaji	Soldier	male
2009	Subedar Indra Bahadur Pun	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
2009	Captain Paras Limboo	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2009	Captain Zala Ajitkumar Arshibhai	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2009	Lieutenant Colonel Osiris Das	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2009	Lieutenant Colonel Saurabh Singh Shekhawat	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2008	Constable Roop Singh	Police	male
2008	Constable Ajay Singh Pathania	Police	male
2008	Shri V. Venkateswara Rao	Civilian	male
2008	Captain Sunil Kumar Choudhary	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2008	Major Rajinder Kumar Sharma	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2008	Major Sushil Kumar Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2008	Major Nungleppam Buddhimanta Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2008	Lieutenant Colonel Manish Shashikant Kadam	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2008	Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2008	Sepoy Suresh	Soldier	male
2008	Major Subhash Chand Punia	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2008	Major Kumandur Prabhakar Vinay	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2008	Major Shatrujeet Kotwal	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2007	Sub Inspector Dhirendra Nath Pratap Singh	Police	male
2007	Shri Dyanand Pandey	Civilian	male
2007	Shri Tarun Kumar Dutta	Civilian	male
2007	Shri Mohd. Shan Ahmed	Civilian	male
2007	Naik Radhakrishnan C	Soldier	male
2007	Captain Abhinav Handa	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2007	Lieutenant Colonel Pankaj Kumar	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2007	Havildar Manjit Singh	Soldier	male
2007	Lieutenant Natarajan Parthiban	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2007	Captain Vishal Bhandral	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2007	Major Manish Hiraji Pitambare	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2007	Colonel Gurbir Singh Sarna	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2006	Fireman Vijay Pal Singh	Fireman	male
2006	Bank Guard Rugha Ram	Guard	male
2006	Sub Inspector Sanjeev	Police	male
2006	Major James Thomas	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2006	Subedar Jagat Bahadur Ghale	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
2005	Captain Sajjan Singh Malik	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2005	Wing Commander Balakrishna Pillai Sreebhavan Krishna Kumar	Indian Air Force	male
2005	Wing Commander Sudhir Kumar Sharma	Indian Air Force	male
2004	Second in Command Narindra Nath Dhar Dubey	CAPF / Paramilitary Force Ranks	male
2004	Constable C. Stanly	Police	male
2004	Lieutenant Dheerendra Singh Atri	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2004	Lieutenant Kanavdeep Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2004	Major Ajay Kothiyal	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2003	Sub Inspector Ravi Jee Fotedar	Police	male
2003	Commandant Virendra Prasad Purohit	CAPF / Paramilitary Force Ranks	male
2003	Rifleman Surjan Singh Bhandari	Infantry Soldier	male
2003	Grenadier Anil Kumar	Soldier	male
2003	Sepoy Sarwan Kumar Dhukiya	Soldier	male
2003	Lance Naik Sohanvir	Soldier	male
2003	Subedar Dil Bahadur Thapa	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
2003	Captain Dilip Kumar Jha	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2003	Major Inderjeet Singh Babbar	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2003	Naik Tarlok Singh	Soldier	male
2003	Havildar Rudal Prasad	Soldier	male
2002	Head Constable Bijender Singh	Police	male
2002	Head Constable Ghan Shyam	Police	male
2002	Head Constable Om Prakash	Police	male
2002	Assistant Sub Inspector Ram Pal	Police	male
2002	Assistant Sub Inspector Nanak Chand	Police	male
2002	Naib Subedar Dev Bahadur Thapa	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
2002	Naib Subedar Ishwar Singh	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
2002	Major Ushnisha Jaitly	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2002	Lance Havildar Jora Singh	Soldier	male
2002	Havildar Lashkar Singh	Soldier	male
2002	Major Avinash Singh Bhadauria	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2002	Major Subhash Chand Rana	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2001	Captain Pankaj Dhyani	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2001	Lieutenant Mayekar Narendra Atmaram	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2001	Lieutenant Ravinder Chhikara	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2001	Captain R Subramanian	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2001	Major Pradeep R Tathawade	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2001	Corporal Akhilesh Kumar Mishra	Indian Air Force	male
2001	Wing Commander Rajiv Kothiyal	Indian Air Force	male
2000	Captain Amit Semwal	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2000	Major Deepak Mehra	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2000	Lance Naik Ram Chander Bhatt	Soldier	male
2000	Subedar Daljit Singh	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
2000	Major Shushil Aima	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
2000	Major Joginder Singh Tanwar	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1999	Sepoy Balbir Singh	Soldier	male
1999	Naik Tikaram Thapa	Soldier	male
1999	Naik Narayan Das	Soldier	male
1999	Havildar Raksh Paul	Soldier	male
1999	Naib Subedar Jagroop Singh	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1999	Major Raman Dada	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1999	Sepoy Sanjeev Singh	Soldier	male
1999	Naik Gee Varghese KD	Soldier	male
1999	Havildar Badri Lal Lunawat	Soldier	male
1998	Shri Balai Chandra Maity	Civilian	male
1998	Naik Vishwa Kerketta	Soldier	male
1998	Naik Gopal Singh	Soldier	male
1998	Captain Anil Kumar	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1998	Major Ashok Kumar Sahrawat	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1998	Major Padmanabhan Srikumar	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1998	Major Braj Kishore Sharma	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1998	Major Sukhwinder Jeet Singh Randhawa	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1997	Rifleman Sanjay Sahi	Infantry Soldier	male
1997	Sepoy Daya Shankar	Soldier	male
1997	Major Krishna Murthy Balasubramaniam	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1996	Shri Poojari Manikyam	Civilian	male
1996	Naik Bhim Singh	Soldier	male
1996	Lieutenant Colonel Sunil Kumar Razdan	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1995	Lance Naik Mahaveer Singh Rajput	Soldier	male
1995	Lance Havildar Nek Singh	Soldier	male
1995	Havildar Dhanaraj Muthappan	Soldier	male
1995	Subedar Hem Bahadur Thapa	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1995	Captain Devashish Sharma	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1995	Captain Arjun Singh Guleria	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1995	Havildar Shiv Narayan Singh	Soldier	male
1995	Company Havildar Major Jagtap Shivaji Balu	Soldier	male
1995	Second Lieutenant Rishi Ashok Malhotra	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1994	Shri Ugrasen Sahoo	Civilian	male
1994	Havildar Madan Sarup	Soldier	male
1994	Sepoy Satnam Singh	Soldier	male
1994	Sepoy Gurtej Singh Gill	Soldier	male
1994	Sepoy Ram Swaroop Gujar	Soldier	male
1994	Lance Naik Jagjit Singh	Soldier	male
1994	Naik Nawab Singh Tomar	Soldier	male
1994	Naik Kannalan Kennady V	Soldier	male
1994	Naib Subedar Baldev Raj	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1994	Subedar Rewal Singh	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1993	Srimati Nirmal Kanta	Civilian	male
1993	Sepoy Gouri Shanker Sah	Soldier	male
1993	Major Ivan Joseph Crasto	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1992	Shri Pandillapalli Srinivas	Civilian	male
1992	Sepoy Swaran Singh	Soldier	male
1992	Naik Hari Singh	Soldier	male
1992	Naib Subedar Padam Bahadur Chhatri	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1992	Subedar Nopa Ram	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1992	Major Mohinder Singh Pathania	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1992	Colonel Inderjit Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1992	Flight Lieutenant Mysore Krishnaswamy Ramaprasad	Indian Air Force	male
1991	Civil Engineer Raj Pal Singh Rana	Civil Engineer	male
1991	Lance Naik Charan Singh	Soldier	male
1991	Naik Bansode YM	Soldier	male
1991	Naik Parkash Chand	Soldier	male
1991	Captain Rakesh Rana	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1991	Major Anurag Nauriyal	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1990	OEM G Pillai	Military Trades	male
1990	OEM Abhimanu	Military Trades	male
1990	OEM Kanshi Ram	Military Trades	male
1990	CH/Man GB Patnaik	Military Trades	male
1990	Shri Kedarnath	Civilian	male
1989	Shri Ashok Kumar Sharma	Civilian	male
1989	OEM Satey Singh	Military Trades	male
1989	SPR/OEM Ajmer Ali	Operator Equipment Mechanic	male
1989	Guest House Manager Shakti Sinh Samantdinh Visana	Manager	male
1989	Shri Jashoda Pal	Civilian	male
1989	Range Forest Officer Arvind D Hegde	Forest Officer	male
1989	Shri Ajit Kumar Doval	Civilian	male
1989	Shri Phu Dorjee	Civilian	male
1989	Havildar Prem Nath Rai	Soldier	male
1989	ALD Krishan Dev Kushwah	Military Trades	male
1989	Wing Commander Daljit Singh Minhas	Indian Air Force	male
1988	Naib Subedar PG Ram Gopal	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1988	DME Naresh Kumar	Military Trades	male
1988	OEM Harjinder Singh	Military Trades	male
1988	Shri Shiv Kumar Yadav	Civilian	male
1988	Bank Guard Harak Singh Karam Singh	Guard	male
1988	Daftary Hasmukh Badriprasad Shah	Civilian	male
1988	Peon Rajinder Singh Panwar	Peon	male
1988	Naib Subedar Chander Singh	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1988	Havildar Shivaji Krishna Patil	Soldier	male
1988	Wing Commander Maheshwar Dutt	Indian Air Force	male
1987	Manager Y Sreehari Sarma	Manager	male
1987	Manager Ghulam Nabi Magrey	Manager	male
1987	Shri Ajay Kumar Klair	Civilian	male
1987	Brigadier Manohar Lal Garg (Retd.)	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1987	Subedar Ram Das (Retd.)	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1987	Second Lieutenant Pradipta Narayan Mohapatra	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1987	Major Ashok Kumar Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1987	Major Mahavir Singh Balhara	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1987	Squadron Leader Pradeep Sharma	Indian Air Force	male
1986	Shri Bundu Khan	Civilian	male
1986	Rifleman Gopal Chand	Infantry Soldier	male
1986	Havildar Indra Bahadur Gurung	Soldier	male
1986	Major Jai Bahuguna	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1985	BR-II RN Guleria	Military Trades	male
1985	Colonel Karni Singh Rathore	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1985	Shri Bachan Singh Sadhrao	Civilian	male
1985	Caretaker Jai Ram	Caretaker	male
1985	Shri RB Kulkarni	Civilian	male
1985	Captain Anoop Kumar Chandhok	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1985	Lieutenant Colonel Satya Swaroop Sharma	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1985	Paratrooper Jagpal Singh	Parachute Regiment Soldier	male
1985	Havildar Varghese Mathew	Soldier	male
1985	Havildar Chander Pal Thakar	Soldier	male
1985	Havildar Sarwan Singh	Soldier	male
1985	Naib Subedar K George Koshy	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1985	Subedar Mahavir Singh Yadav	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1985	Subedar Karuppan Palath Raman Ravi	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1985	Captain Anil Malhotra	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1985	Captain Vinod Kumar Naik	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1985	Captain Hardev Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1985	Major Hitesh Kumar Palta	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1985	Lieutenant Colonel Israr Rahim Khan	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1985	Wing Commander Ravish Malhotra	Indian Air Force	male
1985	Lieutenant Colonel Tejindar Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1984	Shri Arvinder Pal Singh	Civilian	male
1984	Deputy Conservator of Forest Ashok Kumar Sharma	Civilian	male
1984	Shri Suresh Kumar	Civilian	male
1984	Shri Mohammed Yakub Ali	Civilian	male
1984	Lance Naik Ramesh Singh	Soldier	male
1984	Major Ajay Nath Bahuguna	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1984	Sepoy Umesh Chandra	Soldier	male
1984	Rifleman Sripal Chand	Infantry Soldier	male
1984	Naik Ram Bahadur Chhetri	Soldier	male
1984	Naik Tek Bahadur Thapa	Soldier	male
1984	Captain Karni Singh Rathore	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1984	Squadron Leader Hari Nath Chaturvedi VM	Indian Air Force	male
1984	Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair Also won: Ashok Chakra (AC)	Indian Army	male
1983	Shri Surinder Singh	Civilian	male
1983	Brigadier Som Parkash Jhingon	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1983	Squadron Leader Visvanathan Nagarajan	Indian Air Force	male
1982	BR-II AK Maji	Military Trades	male
1982	Shri Hara Lal Sil	Civilian	male
1982	Naib Subedar Umaid Singh	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1982	Captain Ajit Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1982	Naik Megh Raj Singh	Soldier	male
1982	Havildar Amar Singh	Soldier	male
1982	Granadier Gopal Singh	Soldier	male
1982	Granadier Bajrang Singh	Soldier	male
1982	Lance Naik Ravi Singh	Soldier	male
1982	Major Ram Singh Saharan	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1982	Lieutenant Colonel Rama Prasad Sinh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1982	Colonel Narinder Kumar	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1982	Flight Lieutenant Sankara Iyer Chandrasekhar	Indian Air Force	male
1981	Shri S Bhaga Panickar	Civilian	male
1981	Pioneer Ram Adhir	Soldier	male
1981	Shri Tsangu Khemnungan	Civilian	male
1981	Havildar Pukhu Khemnungan	Soldier	male
1981	Shri Sanjay Chopra	Civilian	male
1981	Kumari Geeta Chopra	Civilian	male
1981	Rifleman Parshotam Dass	Infantry Soldier	male
1981	Flight Lieutenant Anil Kumar Mathur	Indian Air Force	male
1980	Major Sukhdev Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1979	Sub Overseer Ram Dulare Lal	Civilian	male
1979	Shri Nathan Singh	Civilian	male
1979	Shri Kayum Khan	Civilian	male
1979	Kumari K Bina	Civilian	male
1979	Naik Pratap Singh	Soldier	male
1979	Subedar Bakhtawar Singh	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1979	Group Captain Denzil Keelor	Indian Air Force	male
1978	Shri Kanwar Lal Sareen	Civilian	male
1978	Shri Kurpati	Civilian	male
1978	Squadron Leader Deepak Yadav	Indian Air Force	male
1978	Sepoy Dhan Singh	Soldier	male
1978	Signalman Rama Rao Dattatarya Deshmukh	Soldier	male
1978	Lance Naik Hoshiar Singh	Soldier	male
1978	Naik Nima Dorjee Sherpa	Soldier	male
1978	Naik Ajit Singh	Soldier	male
1978	Major Prem Chand	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1976	Shri Mulaoo Rawat	Civilian	male
1976	Lance Naik Attar Singh	Soldier	male
1976	Company Havildar Major Susai Pilleei Micheal	Soldier	male
1975	Shri Swarn Singh Boparai	Civilian	male
1975	Havildar Jogendra Singh Sen	Soldier	male
1975	Naib Subedar Kalyan Singh	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1975	Commandant Zuheto Swu	CAPF / Paramilitary Force Ranks	male
1974	Petty Officer TAS-1 Gur Iqbal Singh	Indian Navy Sailor	male
1973	Shri Pati Ram	Civilian	male
1973	Shri ShriKrishna Kirar	Civilian	male
1973	Shri Pritam Kirar	Civilian	male
1973	Shri Hazari	Civilian	male
1973	Major Mohinder Singh Kadyan	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1973	Naib Subedar Daya Nand	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1973	Captain Harpal Singh Ahluwalia	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1973	Naik Mohammad Dar	Soldier	male
1972	Shri MN Singh	Civilian	male
1972	Shri Suresh Dwarka Nath Gavaskar	Civilian	male
1972	Shri PV Puranik	Civilian	male
1972	Shri Mahendra Narain Singh	Civilian	male
1972	Shri Hanumant Singh	Civilian	male
1972	Shri Rabindra Nath Gupta	Civilian	male
1972	Shri Daula	Civilian	male
1972	Major Shachindra Kumar Sharma	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1972	Flight Sergeant Moj Parkash Puri	Indian Air Force	male
1972	Flight Lieutenant Kuldeep Kumar Sharma	Indian Air Force	male
1971	Captain Ransher Singh Ranawat	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1971	Naik Jagbir Singh	Soldier	male
1971	Shri Vila Pralie Angami	Civilian	male
1970	Shri Sham Sunder	Civilian	male
1970	Shri Suraj	Civilian	male
1970	Shri Natthe	Civilian	male
1970	Shri Kalloo	Civilian	male
1970	Shri Gopi	Civilian	male
1969	Shri Vishwanath Singh	Civilian	male
1969	Shri Mahadev Singh	Civilian	male
1969	Shri Kashiram Singh	Civilian	male
1969	Shri Babu Singh	Civilian	male
1969	Shri Ajab Singh	Civilian	male
1969	Shri Ram Nath	Civilian	male
1969	Shri Ram Bharose	Civilian	male
1969	Naik Tek Bahadur Chhetri	Soldier	male
1969	Subedar Dhian Singh	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1969	Captain Dinesh Prasad Mathur	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1969	PNR Mool Singh	Soldier	male
1969	Sepoy Gorakh Nath Singh	Soldier	male
1969	Lance Naik Jitendra Biswas	Soldier	male
1969	Captain Sreeram Raju Kosuri	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1968	Shri Bishal Singh	Civilian	male
1968	Subedar Chalhnuna Lushai	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1968	Captain Allah Noor Kathat	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1968	Corporal Sukumar Ghosh	Indian Air Force	male
1966	Shri Tilak Raj Khanna	Civilian	male
1966	Shri Satish Sood	Civilian	male
1966	Shri Preet Pal Singh	Civilian	male
1966	Shri Arun Khanna	Civilian	male
1966	Shri Kirpal Singh Dhingra	Civilian	male
1966	Shri Jia Lal Gupta	Civilian	male
1966	Shri Partapa	Civilian	male
1966	Squadron Leader Vishwanath Balkrishna Sawardekar	Indian Air Force	male
1965	Shri Patric Edward Crizzle	Civilian	male
1965	Subedar Zhevishe Sema	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1965	Shri Angami	Civilian	male
1964	Shri Samiran Kumar Roy	Civilian	male
1964	Shri Alan Fredrick Richtor	Civilian	male
1964	Shri Abdul Razakali	Civilian	male
1964	Shri Haran Chandra Misra	Civilian	male
1964	Shri Medandra Krishna Kumar	Civilian	male
1964	Shri Sureshwar Datta	Civilian	male
1964	Shri Razo Sopu Angami	Civilian	male
1964	Major Dwarka Nath Kanwarpal	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1964	Lance Naik Karna Bahadur Gurung	Soldier	male
1964	Naik Karna Bahadur Rai	Soldier	male
1964	Second Lieutenant Preminder Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1963	Shri Allika Venkata Rao	Civilian	male
1963	Naik Ranjit Singh	Soldier	male
1962	Flight Lieutenant Jagannath Vijayaraghavan	Indian Air Force	male
1962	Flight Lieutenant Karan Sher Singh Kalsia	Indian Air Force	male
1962	Flight Lieutenant Madhusudan Ray	Indian Air Force	male
1962	Flying Officer Vaidyanathan Ganesan	Indian Air Force	male
1962	Flight Lieutenant Balkrishan Desoares	Indian Air Force	male
1962	Flight Lieutenant Raj Kumar Mehta	Indian Air Force	male
1962	Ordinary Seaman Bechan Singh	Indian Navy Sailor	male
1962	Senior Commissioned Gunner Noel Kelman	Indian Navy Sailor	male
1962	Ordinary Seaman VijendraI Pal Singh Tomar	Indian Navy Sailor	male
1962	Rifleman Bir Singh Negi	Infantry Soldier	male
1961	Shri Imti Mayang	Civilian	male
1961	Shri Percival Douglas Carroll	Civilian	male
1961	Squadron Leader Ayappan Sudhakaran	Indian Air Force	male
1961	Rifleman Hans Raj	Infantry Soldier	male
1961	Major Parayil Bhaskaran	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1960	Subedar Pfudilhu Angami	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1960	Captain Sampuran Singh Grewal	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1960	Lieutenant Colonel Jamshed Bhurjorji Dorabji	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1960	Sepoy Chuhar Singh	Soldier	male
1960	Subedar Sat Lal Pun	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1960	Second Lieutenant Raj Mohan Sharma	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1959	Sepoy Ayomo Lotha	Soldier	male
1959	Shri Makhimong	Civilian	male
1959	Squadron Leader Reginald Azariah Rufus	Indian Air Force	male
1959	Rifleman Jut Bahadur Thapa	Infantry Soldier	male
1959	Rifleman Madho Singh Negi	Infantry Soldier	male
1959	Naik Lal Singh	Soldier	male
1959	Captain Graman Kastrurirangam Krishna Iyengar	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1959	Captain Harbans Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1959	Rifleman Bhim Bahadur Khattri	Infantry Soldier	male
1959	Rifleman Jaman Singh Gusain	Infantry Soldier	male
1959	Major Danchand Singh Pratap	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1958	Wing Commander Nedyam Bhaskar Menon	Indian Air Force	male
1958	Wing Commander Edul Jahangir Dhatigara	Indian Air Force	male
1958	Rifleman Dan Singh Pun	Infantry Soldier	male
1958	Rifleman Tara Prasad Gurung	Infantry Soldier	male
1958	Rifleman Jailal Adhikari	Infantry Soldier	male
1958	Sepoy Suraj Singh	Soldier	male
1958	Sepoy Ram Deva	Soldier	male
1958	Naik Karnail Singh	Soldier	male
1958	Subedar Sohan Singh	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1958	Lieutenant Colonel Jaswant Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1958	Lance Naik Ran Bahadur Gurung Also won: Maha Vir Chakra (MVC)	Army Soldier	male
1957	Shri Manasser Johannes	Civilian	male
1957	CFN Jaikaran	Soldier	male
1957	Lance Naik Pandit Mane	Soldier	male
1957	Major Amar Sen	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1957	Major Inder Singh Rawat	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1957	Major Denzil Herbert D'Cruz	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1957	Sepoy Mohinder Singh	Soldier	male
1957	Sepoy Parmal Singh	Soldier	male
1957	Jemadar Kulwant Singh	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1957	Subedar Nasib Singh	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1957	Captain Mehta Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1957	Naik Mukhtar Singh	Soldier	male
1957	Sepoy Babu Lal	Soldier	male
1956	Jemadar Sheopujan Singh	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1956	Jemadar Sham Bahadur Singh	Junior Commissioned Officers (JCO)	male
1955	Flight Attendant Gloria Eva Berry	Civil Aviation	male
1955	Havildar A Somiah	Soldier	male
1954	Major General Shankarrao Pandurung Patil Thorat	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1953	Flight Lieutenant Raizada Harbans Chawdhry	Indian Air Force	male
1952	Shri B.B.L. Datt	Civilian	male
1952	Flight Sergeant O. Sundaressiya	Indian Air Force	male
1952	Sergeant Dev Raj Singh	Indian Air Force	male
1952	Sergeant Ram Chandra Dua	Indian Air Force	male
1952	Flight Lieutenant Ulrich Anthony D'Cruz	Indian Air Force	male
1952	Sawar Prithi Singh	Armoured/Cavalry Soldier	male
1952	Major Gurcharan Singh	Indian Army Commissioned Officer	male
1952	Sepoy Daryao	Soldier	male
1952	Sepoy Sewa Singh	Soldier	male
1952	Naik Hardial Singh	Soldier	male
1952	Havildar Amar Singh	Soldier	male
1952	Lieutenant General Joginder Singh Gharaya Also won: Maha Vir Chakra (MVC)	Army Officer	male

Kirti Chakra (KC) Award Chart by Year

This chart groups 495 Kirti Chakra (KC) winners by Year, across 73 distinct entries — 1985 leads with 21 wins.

Kirti Chakra (KC) Award Chart by Service

This chart tracks Kirti Chakra (KC) winners by year from 1952 to 2026, spanning 73 years, with the most wins (21) recorded in 1985.

Kirti Chakra (KC) Award Chart by Gender

This chart groups 495 Kirti Chakra (KC) winners by Gender, across 1 distinct entry — male leads with 495 wins.

Kirti Chakra (KC) Award FAQs

The Kirti Chakra (KC) is awarded for Awarded for conspicuous gallantry otherwise than in the face of the enemy..

The Kirti Chakra (KC) is presented by Republic of India.

The Kirti Chakra (KC) was first awarded on 1952.

The first Kirti Chakra (KC) was awarded to Shri B.B.L. Datt, Flight Sergeant O. Sundaressiya, Sergeant Dev Raj Singh, Sergeant Ram Chandra Dua, Flight Lieutenant Ulrich Anthony D'Cruz, Sowar Prithi Singh, Major Gurcharan Singh, Sepoy Daryao, Sepoy Sewa Singh, Naik Hardial Singh, Havildar Amar Sing.

The most recent Kirti Chakra (KC) was awarded on January 26, 2026.

Group Captain Prashant Balakrishnan Nair, Naib Subedar Doleshwar Subba, Major Arshdeep Singh received the most recent Kirti Chakra (KC).

Yes, the Kirti Chakra (KC) is currently active.

The official website for the Kirti Chakra (KC) is https://indianarmy.nic.in/.