List of Rimcollians
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The following is a list of some notable Rimcollians, graduates of the Rashtriya Indian Military College in Dehradun
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Commandant IMA
Indian National Army
Arjuna award
Dehradun
- Geography :The Dehradun district has various types of physical geography from Himalayan mountains to Plains. Raiwala is the lowest point at 315 meters above sea level, and the highest points are within the Tiuni hills, rising to 3700 m above sea level...
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India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
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Chief of Army Staff
- General K.S. Thimayya
- General Gopal Gurunath BewoorGopal Gurunath BewoorGeneral Gopal Gurunath Bewoor Marathi - जनरल गोपाळ गुरुनाथ बेवूर/ಜನರಲ್ ಗೋಪಾಲ್ ಗುರುನಾಥ್ ಬೇವೂರ್PVSM was an officer of the Indian Army who served as the 9th Chief of Army Staff...
- General V.N. SharmaVishwa Nath SharmaGeneral Vishwa Nath Sharma, PVSM, AVSM, ADC, was the 15th Chief of Army Staff of the Indian Army. He is the younger brother of the late Major Som Nath Sharma, recipient of Independent India's first Param Vir Chakra. Both brothers were educated at the Prince of Wales' Royal Indian Military College,...
- General S. Padmanabhan
- General Gul Hasan, Commander-in-Chief, PakistanPakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
Army
Chief of Air Staff
- Air Chief Marshal N.C. SuriNirmal Chandra SuriNirmal Chandra Suri went on to become the Chief of Air Staff of the Indian Air Force on 1 August 1991. He is an alumnus of the famous Royal Indian Military College, Dehradun. He was a part of the First course of the Joint Services Wing, the present-day National Defence Academy, Pune...
- Air Marshal Asghar KhanAsghar KhanAir Marshal Asghar Khan is a Pakistani 3-star rank general and politician who was the first native Air Force Commander-in-Chief of Pakistan Air Force. A politician and world war II veteran fighter pilot, at the age of 36, he served as the youngest and first Pakistani head of the Pakistan Air Force...
, PAFPakistan Air ForceThe Pakistan Air Force is the leading air arm of the Pakistan Armed Forces and is primarily tasked with the aerial defence of Pakistan with a secondary role of providing air support to the Pakistan Army and the Pakistan Navy. The PAF also has a tertiary role of providing strategic air transport... - Air Marshal Nur KhanNur KhanAir Marshal Malik Nur Khan, HJ, HS, HQA, SPk was the Commander-in-Chief of Pakistan Air Force from 1965 to 1969. Considered the hero of the 1965 air war - the man who led the Pakistan air force achieve parity over the three times bigger Indian air force on the very first day of the 1965 war - a...
, PAFPakistan Air ForceThe Pakistan Air Force is the leading air arm of the Pakistan Armed Forces and is primarily tasked with the aerial defence of Pakistan with a secondary role of providing air support to the Pakistan Army and the Pakistan Navy. The PAF also has a tertiary role of providing strategic air transport...
Adjutant General
- Major General Hira Lal AtalHira Lal AtalHira Lal Atal was the first Cadet Captain, or Head Boy, of the famous Rashtriya Indian Military College, which was at that time known as the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, Dehradun. The year was 1922 and the RIMC had just been established in an attempt to nurture native Indians to...
- Lt General M.M. Lakhera
- Major General Karam Singh, PVSM, SM, Dy Adjutant General
GOC-in-C & GOC
- Lt General Premindra Singh BhagatPremindra Singh BhagatLieutenant General Premindra Singh Bhagat VC, PVSM was an officer in the Indian Army during World War II and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces, and the PVSM,...
, PVSM, VC, GOC-in-C Central Command - Lt General K.P. CandethK.P. CandethKunhiraman Palat Candeth was a Major General in the Indian army when he led the operation to liberate Goa from the Portuguese occupation and served briefly as the Lieutenant Governor of the state. Subsequently, he rose to the rank of Lieutenant General in the Indian Army...
, GOC-in-C Western Command, Famous as the liberator of GoaGoaGoa , a former Portuguese colony, is India's smallest state by area and the fourth smallest by population. Located in South West India in the region known as the Konkan, it is bounded by the state of Maharashtra to the north, and by Karnataka to the east and south, while the Arabian Sea forms its... - Lt General Joginder Singh DhillonJoginder Singh DhillonLieutenant General Joginder Singh Dhillon was a decorated and celebrated Indian and Sikh military war hero. He was commissioned into Bengal Engineer Group in 1936, was the first Army Officer to be awarded ‘Padma Bhushan’ on 24 November 1965. Gen Dhillon, was the General Officer Commanding a...
, Padma BhushanPadma BhushanThe Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, but comes before the Padma Shri. It is awarded by the Government of India.-History:...
, GOC-in-C Central Command - Lt General K. Chiman Singh
- Lt General R.K. Gulati
- Lt General R.N. Batra
- Air Marshal V. Patney, AOC-in-C Western Air Command
- Maj General M. Anwar Khan (Pakistan Army E-in-C)
- Lt General Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (Pakistan Army)
- Lt General Gautam Dutt, VSM, Engineer-in-Chief
- Lt General N S Brar,PVSM,AVSM,VSM,ADC, GOC Corps & Administrative Member,Armed Forces Tribunal
- Lt General S K Singh, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, GOC-in-C South Western Command
- Maj Gen Manvendra Singh, AVSM, VSM, GOC Div & GOC Area
Commandant IMAIndian Military AcademyThe Indian Military Academy, Dehradun is the officer training school of the Indian Army. IMA was established in 1932.-Demands for an Indian military training academy:...
- Lt General M.A. Zaki
- Maj General S.C. Sinha
Indian National ArmyIndian National ArmyThe Indian National Army or Azad Hind Fauj was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II. The aim of the army was to overthrow the British Raj in colonial India, with Japanese assistance...
- Maj General Shah Nawaz KhanShah Nawaz Khan (general)Shahnawaz Khan was an Indian soldier who is remembered as an officer who served in the Second Indian National Army during World War II and later came to be one of the three defendants in the first of the INA trials in 1946....
- Maj General J.K. Bhonsle
- Lt Colonel Niranjan Singh Gill
Vir Chakra
- Rajan Dutt
- C.D. Subia
- M.A. Zaki
- G.C. Verma
- Jitendra Kumar
- Chandrakant
- J.K. Roy Chaudhary
- R.K. Sen
- V. Patney
- R.S. Bedi
- R.K. Sinha
- A.P. Datta
- R.S. Grewal
- G.S. Sandhu
- Manoranjan Singh
Padma Bhushan
- Joginder Singh DhillonJoginder Singh DhillonLieutenant General Joginder Singh Dhillon was a decorated and celebrated Indian and Sikh military war hero. He was commissioned into Bengal Engineer Group in 1936, was the first Army Officer to be awarded ‘Padma Bhushan’ on 24 November 1965. Gen Dhillon, was the General Officer Commanding a...
- K.P. CandethK.P. CandethKunhiraman Palat Candeth was a Major General in the Indian army when he led the operation to liberate Goa from the Portuguese occupation and served briefly as the Lieutenant Governor of the state. Subsequently, he rose to the rank of Lieutenant General in the Indian Army...
- K.S. Katoch
- Gopal Gurunath BewoorGopal Gurunath BewoorGeneral Gopal Gurunath Bewoor Marathi - जनरल गोपाळ गुरुनाथ बेवूर/ಜನರಲ್ ಗೋಪಾಲ್ ಗುರುನಾಥ್ ಬೇವೂರ್PVSM was an officer of the Indian Army who served as the 9th Chief of Army Staff...
- Harnarain Singh
Arjuna awardArjuna awardThe Arjuna Awards were instituted in 1961 by the government of India to recognize outstanding achievement in National sports. The award carries a cash prize of 500,000, a bronze statuette of Arjuna and a scroll....
- Brigadier R.K. Manchanda, SquashSquash (sport)Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball...
- Brigadier D.K. Khullar, MountaineeringMountaineeringMountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...
- Brigadier K.S. Rao, SailingSailingSailing is the propulsion of a vehicle and the control of its movement with large foils called sails. By changing the rigging, rudder, and sometimes the keel or centre board, a sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails in order to move the boat relative to its surrounding medium and...
- Maj Shakti Singh, squash- services Golf- services
Royals
- ColonelColonelColonel , abbreviated Col or COL, is a military rank of a senior commissioned officer. It or a corresponding rank exists in most armies and in many air forces; the naval equivalent rank is generally "Captain". It is also used in some police forces and other paramilitary rank structures...
SawaiSawaiSawai in India, may refer to Honorary title generally used with Bahadur, for example Sawai Bahadur. Sawai literally means a quarter over one .Sawai may also refer to:*Sawai, a language*Sawai, a tropical tree...
Maharaj Sahib Deshpal Singh Ju Deo of AjaigarhAjaigarhAjaigarh, or Adjygurh is town and a nagar panchayat in the Panna District of Madhya Pradesh state in central India.-History:Ajaigarh was the capital of a princely state of the same name during the British Raj. Ajaigarh was founded in 1765 by Guman Singh, a Bundela Rajput who was the nephew of Raja...
, Appointed as Dewan (Prime Minister) on the kind obligation of British Raj for revamp of Chhatarpur State and Administrator - Dewan of Baraundha State (Under Court of Wards). President of All India Kshatriya Maha Sabha during the Raj Period.
Ministers
- Maj General Shah Nawaz KhanShah Nawaz Khan (general)Shahnawaz Khan was an Indian soldier who is remembered as an officer who served in the Second Indian National Army during World War II and later came to be one of the three defendants in the first of the INA trials in 1946....
, Minister of Railways, Central Government - Maj General J.K. Bhonsle, Minister of Rehabilitation, Central Government
- Colonel Ram Singh, Member of ParliamentMember of ParliamentA Member of Parliament is a representative of the voters to a :parliament. In many countries with bicameral parliaments, the term applies specifically to members of the lower house, as upper houses often have a different title, such as senate, and thus also have different titles for its members,...
, Minister of State for Wasteland Development - Sahabzada Yaqub KhanSahabzada Yaqub KhanLieutenant-General Sahabzada Yaqub Ali Khan is a retired 3 star rank general in the Pakistan Army who the was the international face of Pakistan for three decades. He served as Foreign Minister of Pakistan from 1982 to 1991 during the dying days of Cold War and then caretaker Foreign Minister...
, Foreign Minister, PakistanPakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan... - Naseerullah Babar, Interior Minister, PakistanPakistanPakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
Diplomats
- Shaharyar Khan, Foreign Secretary, Head of Pakistan's Diplomatic Corps
- Niranjan Singh Gill, Ex-Indian National ArmyIndian National ArmyThe Indian National Army or Azad Hind Fauj was an armed force formed by Indian nationalists in 1942 in Southeast Asia during World War II. The aim of the army was to overthrow the British Raj in colonial India, with Japanese assistance...
, Indian Ambassador
Civil servants
- H.S. Butalia, Chief Secretary
- D.P.N. Singh, Head of Border Security ForceBorder Security ForceThe Border Security Force is a border patrol agency of the Government of India. Established on December 1, 1965, it is one of the Central Armed Police Forces. Its primary role is to guard India's international borders during peacetime and also prevent transnational crime...
- Ashwani Kumar, current director CBI