Veer Chakra is an Indian gallantry award presented for acts of bravery in the battlefield. Award of the decoration carries with it the right to use Vr.C. as a postnominal abbreviation. It is third in precedence in the wartime gallantry awards and comes after the Param Veer Chakra and Maha Veer Chakra.
The medal is 1-3/8 inch circular silver medal. A five pointed star, with the chakra in the centre, and, on this, the domed gilded State emblem. The decoration is named on the rim and suspended from a swivelling straight-bar suspender. The decoration is almost always named and dated on the edge. Around a plain centre, two legends separated by lotus flowers; above Veer Chakra in Hindi and in English. The ribbon is 32 mm, half dark blue and half orange-saffron. Dark blue 16 mm, saffron 16 mm.
Notable Vir Chakra Awardees
- Ajay Ahuja
- Dinesh Chandra Bhandary
- Kuldip Singh Brar
- Alfred Tyrone Cooke
- Vonthibettu Prabhakara Hegde
- Denzil Keelor
- Trevor Keelor
- Krishan Kant Saini
- Mohammad Ahmed Zaki
- Satish Nambiar
- Arun Prakash
- Jerry Prem Raj
- Rajiq Khan
- Shish Ram Gill
- Laxminarayan Ramdas
- Zafar Ali Shah
- Harbaksh Singh
- Subedar Randhir Singh
- Sunil Khokhar
- Vijayant Thapar
- Gopal Krishna Trivedi
- Haneef Uddin
- Zorawar Chand Bakhshi
The award carries with it a cash allowance and, in some cases, a lump sum cash award.
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