well come to captain Vikram Batra life history.
captain Vikram Batra (9 September 1974-7 July 1999) was an indian army officer .he was posthumously awarded the param Vira chakra, the highest indian military decoration ,for his actions during the Kargil war; on 7 July 1999,batra was killed while fighting Pakistani troops around area ledge ,point 4875,in the Kargil district of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir.
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| Vikram Batra official military portrait,1997 born:9 September 1997 Palampur, Himachal Pradesh, India died: 7 July 1999 (aged 24) Kargil, Jammu and Kashmir ,india. allegiance :india service/Branch: Indian army years of service:1997-1999 rank: captain service number:IC-57556H unit:13 Jammu and Kashmir rifle battles/wars: Kargil war battle of point 5140 battle of point 4875 awards: PARAM Vir chakra alma mater: DAV college(BMSc) Punjab university indian military academy. |
early life and education.
Batra was born on 9 September 1974 in Palampur, Himachal Pradesh. he was the third child of Gandhari Lal Batra, a government school principal, and Kamal Kenta Batra, a school teacher. the older of twin sons, he was born fourteen minutes before his brother, Vishal. The twins were nicknamed : luv (Vikram) and Kush (Vishal) ,after the twin sons of the Hindu deity Rama, by their mother who was a professed devotee of Rama. he had two sister : Seema and nutans. as a young child ,Batra received his primary education under the tutelage of his mother / he received his primary education at GPS tikri-mushehara in mandi district of Himachal Pradesh .he then attended the D.A.V public school in palampur, where he studied up to middle standard. he received his senior secondary education at central school in palampur.
besides his academic andeavours ,Batra also dabbled in a variety of his school, which he represented at the national level during the youth parliamentary competitions in Delhi .he also represented his school and college in table tennis at all india KVA national .he also was a greenbelt holder in karate and to attend a national level camp in Manali .
after completing his class XII bord examinations in 1992 from central school ,he attended DAV college ,Chandigarh in BSc medical sciences .at college ,he joined the air wing of the national cadet corps (NCC) while he was in his first year. during the inter- state NCC camp, he was adjudged the best NCC air wing cadet of Punjab directorate in north zone . he was selected and underwent a 40-day paratrooping training with his NCC air wing unit at pin Jore airfield and flying club ,about 35 kilometers away from Chandigarh. during the next two years in DAV , he remained a cadet of the army wing of NCC . in addition ,he was the president of the youth service club of his college.
he afterward qualification for the c certificate in the NCC and attained the rank of senior under officer in his NCC unit .subsequently .in 1994,he was selected and took part in the republic day parade as an NCC cadet ,and when he come home ,he told his parent that he wanted to join the army .his maternal grandfather was also a soldier in the indian army .in 1995,while still in college ,he was selected for the merchant navy at a shipping company headquartered in Hong Kong, but ultimately he changed his mind ,aspiring to do something great, something extraordinary ,which may bring fame to my country .that same year he completed his bachelors degree, graduating from DAV college in Chandigarh.
following completion of his bachelors degree in 1995, he enrolled at Panjab university in Chandigarh, where he took admission in MA English course ,so that he could prepare for the combined defence service (CDS) examination. he attended evening classes at the university and worked part- time in the morning as a branch manager of a travelling agency in Chandigarh.
military career
Batra joined the indian military academy (IMA) at Dehradun ,in June 1996 in the Manekshaw battalion. after completing his 19-month training course ,he graduated from the IMA on 6 December 1997 and was commissioned into as a lieutenant into the indian army. He was commissioned into the 13th battalion of the Jammu and Kashmir rifles (13 JAK Rif) after commissioning ,he was sent to Jabalpur ,Madhya Pradesh for regiment training .the lasted one month ,from December
1997 to the end of January 1998.
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| bust of captain vikram batra at the national war memorial ,pune |
on completion of this training he got his first posting at Sopore in Baramulla district of Jammu and Kashmir ,an area with significant military activity .in mid- march 1998,he was sent to the infantry school at Mhow, Madhya Pradesh ,where young army officers are trained, for the young officers course. This training lasted five months until September 1998. following completion of the course and being awarded alpha grading ,he joined his battalion in Sopore in October 1998.
during his posting in Sopore, Batra had several encounters with militants.in one of those encounters when Batra was leading an ambush with his platoon into an area of dense forest ,he escaped when bullet fired by a militant grazed his shoulder and struck one of Bartas men behind him, who was killed. Batra ordered his men to fire on the militants, and by morning all of the militants were killed. he believed that the bullet was meant for him and his colleague.
in January 1999,batra was sent on a commando course at Belgaum ,karnataka .the course lasted for two months and at the end of it, he was awarded the highest grading the instructor grade.
every time when he came home to Palampur on leave , he would visit the neural cafe. Batra last came home on leave from the army in 1999 ,during the Holi festival for a few days.
Batra information his parents about his movement and assured them they need not worry about him. He would call his parents at least once in ten days. the last phone call he made was on 29 June 1999.this was the last time that spoke to his mother.
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