List of National Defence Academy alumni

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The Indian National Defence Academy (NDA) is the joint services academy of the Indian Armed Forces, where cadets of the three armed forces (the Army, the Navy and the Air Force) train together before beginning pre-commission training at their respective service academies (Indian Military Academy (IMA), Indian Naval Academy (INA), and Air Force Academy (AFA) for army, navy, and air force cadets respectively). Established in 1954 and located in vicinity of Khadakwasla Dam, near Pune, it is the world's first tri-service academy. [1] [2]

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NDA is not the only officer training academy in India. Besides NDA, which is tri-service academy, the Indian Army's IMA, [3] Officers Training Academy (OTA), [4] [5] Army Cadet College (ACC), the Indian Navy's INA, [6] and the Air Force's AFA are the other officer training academies of India. Besides cadets from NDA, these academies accept cadets separately from several streams. Apart from these, the Indian Army has three establishments for technical stream which include College of Military Engineering (CME), [7] Military College of Telecommunication Engineering (MCTE), [8] and Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (MCEME). [9] Although cadets are imparted technical training at these three academies, they are commissioned through OTA, Gaya. [10] Excluding all these establishments, which are meant for combat arms, the Indian Army has other commissioning academies for support services such as the Medical Corps, [11] and the Judge Advocate General's Department for example. [12]

Similarly, the Aeronautical Engineers (Electronics) and Aeronautical Engineers (Mechanical) are trained at the Air Force Technical College at Jalahalli, Bengaluru; the Meteorological branch officer cadets get their training at Air Force Administrative College, Coimbatore.

NDA alumni have led and participated in every major conflict in which the Indian Armed Forces have been called into action since the academy was founded. [1] Alumni include three Param Vir Chakra recipients and twelve Ashoka Chakra recipients. [13] [14] The NDA has produced 36 service chiefs of staff, including the incumbent chiefs of staff of the Army, Navy and Air Force. [15]

Chiefs of staff

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General Vijay Kumar Singh
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Admiral Arun Prakash
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Admiral Robin Kumar Dhowan
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Admiral Sunil Lanba
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Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik
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Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne
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Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha

As of October 2025, the academy has produced 2 Chiefs of Defence Staff, 15 Chiefs of the Army Staff (COAS), 13 Chiefs of the Naval Staff (CNS) and 11 Chiefs of the Air Staff (CAS). All incumbent service chiefs (Chief of the Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi, Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi and Chief of the Air Staff ACM Amar Preet Singh) are NDA alumni. [15]

Chief of Defence Staff

S.NoNameCourse NumberNotes
1 General Bipin Rawat PVSM UYSM AVSM YSM SM VSM 53First CDS
2 General Anil Chauhan PVSM UYSM AVSM SM VSM Incumbent

Chief of the Army Staff

S.NoNameCourse NumberNotes [15]
1 General Sunith Francis Rodrigues PVSM VSM 126th Governor of Punjab. [16] [17]
2 General Bipin Chandra Joshi PVSM VSM 5Died in harness. [18] [19]
3 General Shankar Roy Chowdhury PVSM 10Former Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha). [20] [21] [22]
4 General Ved Prakash Malik PVSM AVSM 14 [23] [24]
5 General Sundararajan Padmanabhan PVSM AVSM VSM 15 [25]
6 General Nirmal Chander Vij PVSM UYSM AVSM 21Former National Disaster Management Authority vice-chair; Vivekananda International Foundation director [26] [27] [28] [29]
7 General Joginder Jaswant Singh PVSM AVSM VSM 2514th Governor of Arunachal Pradesh [30]
8 General Deepak Kapoor PVSM AVSM SM VSM 30 [31]
9 General Vijay Kumar Singh PVSM AVSM YSM 36 Union Minister of State for External Affairs; Union Minister of State for Overseas Indian Affairs; Minister of State for Statistics and Programme Implementation; Former Minister for Development of North Eastern Region; Member of Indian Parliament for Ghaziabad [32] [33] [34] [35]
10 General Bikram Singh PVSM UYSM AVSM SM VSM 40 [36] [37]
11 General Dalbir Singh PVSM UYSM AVSM VSM 44 [38] [39]
12 General Bipin Rawat PVSM UYSM AVSM YSM SM VSM 53First CDS, Padma Vibhushan
13 General Manoj Mukund Naravane PVSM AVSM SM VSM 56 [40]
14 General Manoj Pande PVSM AVSM VSM 61
15 General Upendra Dwivedi PVSM AVSM Current COAS.

Chief of the Naval Staff

S.NoNameCourse NumberNotes [15]
1 Admiral Laxmi Narayan Ramdas PVSM AVSM VrC VSM 12004 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding [41]
2 Admiral Vijai Singh Shekhawat PVSM AVSM VrC 7Former Vice Chairman of Outward Bound India; [42] Vivekananda International Foundation advisory board member [43]
3 Admiral Vishnu Bhagwat PVSM AVSM 14 [44]
4 Admiral Sushil Kumar PVSM UYSM AVSM NM 16 [45]
5 Admiral Madhvendra Singh PVSM AVSM 20 [28]
6 Admiral Arun Prakash PVSM AVSM VSM 26 [46]
7 Admiral Sureesh Mehta PVSM AVSM 29Former High Commissioner to New Zealand. [47] [48]
8 Admiral Nirmal Kumar Verma PVSM AVSM 3524th High Commissioner to Canada. [49] [50]
9 Admiral Robin Kumar Dhowan PVSM AVSM YSM 45 [51]
10 Admiral Sunil Lanba PVSM AVSM 51 [52]
11 Admiral Karambir Singh PVSM AVSM 56 [53] [54] [55]
12 Admiral Radhakrishnan Hari Kumar PVSM AVSM VSM 61
13 Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi PVSM AVSM NM Current CNS.

Chief of the Air Staff

S.NoNameCourse NumberNotes [15]
1 Air Chief Marshal Nirmal Chandra Suri PVSM AVSM VM 1 [56]
2 Air Chief Marshal Swaroop Krishna Kaul PVSM MVC 5 [57]
3 Air Chief Marshal Satish Kumar Sareen PVSM AVSM VM 12 [58]
4 Air Chief Marshal Anil Yashwant Tipnis PVSM AVSM VM 15 [59]
5 Air Chief Marshal Pradeep Vasant Naik PVSM VSM 33 [60]
6 Air Chief Marshal Norman Anil Kumar Browne PVSM VM 39Ambassador to Norway [61] [62]
7 Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha PVSM AVSM VM 44 [63] [15]
8 Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa PVSM AVSM YSM VM 52 [64]
9 Air Chief Marshal Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria PVSM AVSM VM 56Former CAS [65]
10 Air Chief Marshal Vivek Ram Chaudhari PVSM AVSM VM 61
11 Air Chief Marshal Amar Preet Singh PVSM AVSM Current CAS.

Gallantry award recipients

Wartime

As of September 2023, 3 Param Vir Chakras, 32 Maha Vir Chakras and 163 Vir Chakras have been awarded to NDA officers. [66]

Param Vir Chakra

Three officers from NDA have posthumously received the Param Vir Chakra, India's highest wartime gallantry award. All three were from the Army. [13]

S.NoNameCourse NumberUnitYear [67]
1 Captain Gurbachan Singh Salaria 9 3/1 Gorkha Rifles 1961 [68]
2 Second Lieutenant Arun Khetarpal 38 17 Poona Horse 1971 [69]
3 Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey 90 1/11 Gorkha Rifles 1999 [70]

Maha Vir Chakra

32 NDA officers have received the Maha Vir Chakra, India's second-highest wartime gallantry award: two from the Air Force, one from the Navy and the remainder from the Army. Ten received the award posthumously. Air Force squadron leader Padmanabha Gautam is the only NDA officer to receive the award twice, in 1965 and 1971 (posthumously). [71]

S.NoName [a] Course NumberUnitYear [72]
1 Lieutenant Colonel Raj Mohan Vohra 1 Armoured Corps 1971 [73]
2 Lieutenant Colonel Hanut Singh 1 Armoured Corps 1971 [74]
3 Lieutenant Colonel Kulwant Singh Pannu 1 Infantry 1971 [75]
4 Lieutenant Colonel Narinder Singh Sandhu 2 Infantry 1971 [76]
5 Wing Commander Padmanabha Gautam 3 Indian Air Force 1965, 1971 [b] [71]
6Major Sushil Kumar Mathur3 Artillery 1965 [77] [78]
7 Lieutenant Colonel Sukhjit Singh 4 Armoured Corps 1971 [79]
8 Second Lieutenant Shamsher Singh5 Infantry 1971 [80]
9 Lieutenant Colonel Raj Kumar Singh5 Infantry 1971 [81]
10 Lieutenant Colonel Harish Chandra Pathak 5 Infantry 1971 [82]
11 Wing Commander Swaroop Krishna Kaul 5 Indian Air Force 1971 [83] [84]
12 Lieutenant Colonel Ved Prakash Ghai5 Infantry 1971 [b] [85]
13 Lieutenant Colonel Surinder Kapur7 Infantry 1971 [86]
14 Lieutenant Colonel Ved Prakash Airy 8 Infantry 1972 [87]
15Major Bhaskar Roy9 Armoured Corps 1965 [88]
16Major Daljit Singh Narang9 Armoured Corps 1972 [b]
17 Lieutenant Commander Santosh Kumar Gupta NM 10 Indian Navy 1971 [89]
18 Major Vijay Rattan Choudhry 13 Corps of Engineers 1971
19 Major Vijay Kumar Berry 14 Infantry 1971 [90]
20 Brigadier Manjit Singh 19 Infantry 1987 [91]
21Second Lieutenant Bhagwan Dutt Dogra20 Infantry 1962 [92]
22 Major Amarjit Singh Bal 22 Armoured Corps 1971 [93]
23Captain Gautam Mubayi23 Infantry 1965 [b] [94]
24Captain Pradip Kumar Gour25 Infantry 1971 [95]
25Major Basdev Singh Mankotia28 Infantry 1971 [96]
26 Lieutenant Colonel Inder Bal Singh Bawa 30 Infantry 1971 [b] [97]
27 Captain Devinder Singh Ahlawat 31 Infantry 1971 [b] [98]
28 Major Vivek Gupta 80 2 Rajputana 1999 [b] [99]
29 Captain Anuj Nayyar 90 17 Jat 1999 [b]
30 Captain Gurjinder Singh Suri 90 12 Bihar 2001 [b] [100]
31 Colonel B. Santosh Babu 102 16 Bihar 2021 [101]

Vir Chakra

163 NDA alumni have been awarded the Vir Chakra, India's third-highest wartime award. Of these, 96 are from the Army, 13 from the Navy and 54 from the Air Force. Notable recipients include Admirals Laxmi Narayan Ramdas, Vijai Singh Shekhawat, Arun Prakash, Lieutenant General Yogesh Kumar Joshi and Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman. [102]

Peacetime

As of September 2023, 12 Ashok Chakras, [14] 45 Kirti Chakras, [103] and 152 Shaurya Chakras, [104] have been awarded to NDA officers. [66]

Ashoka Chakra

Twelve NDA officers have received the Ashok Chakra, India's highest peacetime gallantry award. Of them, one is from the Air Force and the remainder are from the Army. Eleven officers received the award posthumously. [66] Wing commander Rakesh Sharma of the Air Force is the only living NDA Air Force officer to receive the award. [105] [106]

S.NoName [a] Course NumberUnitNotes
1 Second Lieutenant Pollur Mutthuswamy Raman 10 3 Sikh Li CI Ops Naga Hill-03 Jun 1956
2 Squadron Leader Rakesh Sharma 35 Indian Air Force Only Indian national to go into space; Hero of the Soviet Union [105] [106] [107]
3 Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair KC 38 16 Maratha Light Infantry 1994; [b] Kirti Chakra (1983) [108] [109]
4 Major Sudhir Kumar Walia 72 9 Para (SF) 2000; [b] Sena Medal recipient [110] [111]
5 Captain Arjun Singh Jasrotia 73 9 Para (SF) 1996; [b] Sena Medal recipient [110] [112]
6 Major Rajiv Kumar Joon SC 78 22 Grenadiers 1995; [b] Shaurya Chakra recipient [113] [114]
7 Second Lieutenant Rakesh Singh 79 22 Grenadiers 1993 [b] [115] [108]
8 Second Lieutenant Puneet Nath Datt 87 1/11 Gorkha Rifles 1997 [b] [116]
9 Major Mohit Sharma 95 1 Para (SF) 2010; [b] Sena Medal recipient [117] [118]
10 Major Dinesh Raghu Raman 95 Rashtriya Rifles 2008; [b] COAS commendation [119] [120]
11 Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan 94 7 Bihar
51 SAG (NSG) 		2009, [b] Operation Black Tornado [121] [122] [123] [124]
12 Captain Radhakrishnan Nair Harshan 101 2 Para (SF) 2007 [b] [125]

Kirti Chakra

Forty five NDA alumni have received the Kirti Chakra, India's second-highest peacetime gallantry award. Notable recipients include Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair, who is also an Ashok Chakra recipient and Lieutenant colonel Nectar Sanjenbam who is also a Shaurya Chakra recipient. [109] [126]

Shaurya Chakra

A total of 152 NDA alumni have received the Shaurya Chakra, India's third-highest peacetime gallantry award. Notable recipients include Major Rajiv Kumar Joon, who is also an Ashok Chakra recipient. [127]

Padma Awards

The Padma Awards - Padma Vibhushan, Padma Bhushan, and Padma Shri - are among the highest civilian honours in India.

Padma Vibhushan

General Bipin Rawat (53rd course) served as the first Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) of the Indian Armed Forces from January 2020 until his death in a helicopter crash in December 2021. Prior to taking over as the CDS, he served as the 57th Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee (Chairman COSC) of the Indian Armed Forces as well as 27th Chief of the Army Staff. He was posthumously honoured with the Padma Vibhushan in 2022.

Padma Bhushan

Commodore Arogyaswami Paulraj (25th course), an Emeritus Professor at Stanford University, is noted for pioneering MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) wireless technology. This transformative innovation is the cornerstone of today's universal 4G/5G mobile and WiFi networks and has earned him numerous global awards.

Commissioned in 1965, he retired pre-maturely from the Indian Navy in 1991 before emigrating to the US. During his Naval service, he led the development of APSOH, the world's leading shallow-water anti-submarine sonar system, contributing significantly to the country's self-reliance. Paulraj also founded three national laboratories for the Indian government: the Center for AI and Robotics, the Center for Development of Advanced Computing, and the Central Research Labs (BEL). He received the Padma Bhushan in 2010 for his contributions to defense technology in India.

Padma Shri

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Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

Colonel Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore (77th course) won the Silver medal in men's double trap at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was awarded the Arjuna Award, the Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award and the Padma Shri. He also won 3 gold medals and 1 silver medal in the Commonwealth Games [c] and 1 silver and 1 bronze medal in the Asian Games. [d]

He joined politics and was elected as the Member of Parliament from Jaipur, Rajasthan and served as the Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Information & Broadcasting, Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Youth Affairs and Sports the Government of India. [128] [129] [130] [131] [132] [133] [134]

Others

No.NameMilitary awardsCourse numberNotes
1 Major General Ian Cardozo AVSM SM AVSM, SM 12First NDA cadet to receive both gold and silver medals; First war-disabled officer of the Indian Army to command a battalion and a brigade. [135]

Notes

Footnotes

  1. 1 2 Rank is that held by the officer on the date of the award or action.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Posthumous
  3. ↑ Two gold medals: one in double trap individual and double trap pairs at the 2002 Commonwealth Games. One gold and one silver medal in double trap individual and double trap pairs, respectively, at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.
  4. ↑ One silver and one bronze medal in double trap teams and double trap, respectively, at the 2006 Asian Games.

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