# List of Param Vishisht Seva Medal recipients (1980–1989)

The Param Vishisht Seva Medal (PVSM) (IAST: Parama Viśiṣṭa Sēvā, lit. 'supreme distinguished service medal') is the highest peacetime medal of the Indian Armed Forces, and is awarded for "distinguished service of the most exceptional order." The medal was instituted on Republic Day 1960 as the highest class of the Vishisht Seva Medal ("Distinguished Service Medal") intended to recognise "distinguished service rendered by personnel of the Armed Forces." All ranks of the Armed Forces are eligible for the medal, which may be awarded multiple times as well as posthumously.
At its creation, it was designated the Vishisht Seva Medal (Class I). On 27 January 1967, it received its present name. Post-nominals for recipients were approved on 19 August 1967.

## Recipients

| No. | Rank | Name | Branch | Service Number (Unit) | Date of Award |
| 239 | Lieutenant General | Jitendra Chandra Chatterji | Indian Army | MR-495 (Medical) | 26 January 1980 |
| 240 | Vice Admiral | Vivian Eric Charles Barboza AVSM &bar | Indian Navy | 00033-Z | 26 January 1980 |
| 241 | Air Marshal | Chandrakant Shridhar Naik AVSM VSM | Indian Air Force | 3499 AE(M) | 26 January 1980 |
| 242 | Air Marshal | Lakshman Madhav Katre AVSM &bar | Indian Air Force | 3117 F(P) | 26 January 1980 |
| 243 | Major General | Jagdarshan Singh Soin | Indian Army | IC-1595 (Engineers) | 26 January 1980 |
| 244 | Major General | Natarajan Ramachandran | Indian Army | IC-3755 (Infantry) | 26 January 1980 |
| 245 | Major General | Mohan Lal | Indian Army | IC-2429 (Infantry) | 26 January 1980 |
| 246 | Major General | Girish Narayan Sinha | Indian Army | IC-2781 (Infantry) | 26 January 1980 |
| 247 | Major General | Lachman Das Khurana VSM | Indian Army | MR-426 (Medical) | 26 January 1980 |
| 248 | Major General | Hari Narayan Shingal AVSM (Ret'd) | Indian Army | IC-3210 (Infantry) | 26 January 1980 |
| 249 | Major General | Mulamootil Geevarughese Abraham (Ret'd) | Indian Army | IC-2103 (AOC) | 26 January 1980 |
| 250 | Major General | Prithvi Raj (Ret'd) | Indian Army | IC-4281 (Infantry) | 26 January 1980 |
| 251 | Major General | Anand Vishwanath Natu MVC (Ret'd) | Indian Army | IC-4703 (Infantry) | 26 January 1980 |
| 252 | Air Vice Marshal | Kuppuswamier Chidambaram (Ret'd) | Indian Air Force | 3531 LGS | 26 January 1980 |
| 253 | Lieutenant General | Adi M. Sethna AVSM | Indian Army | IC-522 (Infantry) | 26 January 1981 |
| 254 | Lieutenant General | Harish Chandra Dutta | Indian Army | IC-2266 (Infantry) | 26 January 1981 |
| 255 | Lieutenant General | Surinder Nath Sharma AVSM | Indian Army | IC-1475 (Engineers) | 26 January 1981 |
| 256 | Lieutenant General | Tirath Singh Oberoi VrC | Indian Army | IC-1591 (Infantry) | 26 January 1981 |
| 257 | Lieutenant General | Amar Singh AVSM | Indian Army | IC-2905 (Army Service Corps) | 26 January 1981 |
| 258 | Vice Admiral | Melville Raymond Schunker AVSM | Indian Navy | 00034-A | 26 January 1981 |
| 259 | Vice Admiral | Oscar Stanley Dawson AVSM | Indian Navy | 000358 | 26 January 1981 |
| 260 | Air Marshal | Saroj Jena AVSM VM | Indian Air Force | 3157 F(P) | 26 January 1981 |
| 261 | Air Marshal | Hemant Ramkrishna Chitnis AVSM VM | Indian Air Force | 2964 F(P) | 26 January 1981 |
| 262 | Air Marshal | Trilochan Singh Brar AVSM | Indian Air Force | 2884 F(P) | 26 January 1981 |
| 263 | Major General | Som Nath Bhaskar (Ret'd) | Indian Army | IC-4239 (EME) | 26 January 1981 |
| 264 | Major General | Baljit Kumar Mehta AVSM | Indian Army | IC-5445 (Infantry) | 26 January 1981 |
| 265 | Major General | Samir Chandra Sinha | Indian Army | IC-1813 (Infantry) | 26 January 1981 |
| 266 | Major General | Pullode Kulathingal Lakshmikutty | Indian Army | NR-680954 (Military Nursing Service) | 26 January 1981 |
| 267 | Major General | Prikshat Raj Puri | Indian Army | IC-2261 (Engineers) | 26 January 1981 |
| 268 | Major General | Ram Chandra Vinayak Apte AVSM (Ret'd) | Indian Army | IC-1909 (Artillery) | 26 January 1981 |
| 269 | Air Vice Marshal | Mulk Raj AVSM | Indian Air Force | 3518 MED | 26 January 1981 |
| 270 | Lieutenant General | Harbhajan Singh Banga VSM | Indian Army | IC-4183 (EME) | 26 January 1982 |
| 271 | Lieutenant General | Raj Kumar Jasbir Singh | Indian Army | IC-2409 (Infantry) | 26 January 1982 |
| 272 | Lieutenant General | Vallury Venkateswara Surya Prataprao | Indian Army | MR-00445 (Medical) | 26 January 1982 |
| 273 | Lieutenant General | Harnam Singh Seth | Indian Army | MR-00536 (Medical) | 26 January 1982 |
| 274 | Vice Admiral | Manohar Prahlad Awati VrC | Indian Navy | 00037-H | 26 January 1982 |
| 275 | Air Marshal | Douglas George King-Lee AVSM | Indian Air Force | 3040 F(P) | 26 January 1982 |
| 276 | Air Marshal | Balwant Wickram Chauhan AVSM | Indian Air Force | 3352 F(P) | 26 January 1982 |
| 277 | Air Marshal | Jagdish Raj Bhasin AVSM VM | Indian Air Force | 3591 F(P) | 26 January 1982 |
| 278 | Major General | Hardit Singh Sobti AVSM | Indian Army | IC-1585 (Engineers) | 26 January 1982 |
| 279 | Major General | Rajendra Nath | Indian Army | IC-2306 (Infantry) | 26 January 1982 |
| 280 | Major General | Uttam Chand Chopra (Ret'd) | Indian Army | IC-4435 (AOC) | 26 January 1982 |
| 281 | Major General | Mithilesh Chandra Gupta | Indian Army | IC-2300 (Engineers) | 26 January 1982 |
| 282 | Major General | Kailash Chander | Indian Army | IC-1609 (Artillery) | 26 January 1982 |
| 283 | Major General | Krishan Lal Kochar | Indian Army | IC-4844 (Infantry) | 26 January 1982 |
| 284 | Major General | Chittor Venugopal MVC | Indian Army | IC-5096 (Infantry) | 26 January 1982 |
| 285 | Major General | Man Mohan Suri (Ret'd) | Indian Army | DR-10023 (Dental) | 26 January 1982 |
| 286 | Major General | Onkar Singh Bhandari | Indian Army | IC-7247 (Infantry) | 26 January 1982 |
| 287 | Major General | Avtar Singh AVSM | Indian Army | IC-2438 (Artillery) | 26 January 1982 |
| 288 | Surgeon Rear Admiral | Narinder Nath Katariya | Indian Navy | 75223-K MR-00384-A (Medical) | 26 January 1982 |
| 289 | Air Vice Marshal | Lareto Pestana Pereira | Indian Air Force | 3705 AEM | 26 January 1982 |
| 290 | Air Vice Marshal | Vajjha Sriman Narayana Murthy | Indian Air Force | 3587 MED | 26 January 1982 |
| 291 | Lieutenant General | Arunkumar Shridhar Vaidya MVC & bar AVSM | Indian Army | IC-1701 (Armoured Corps) | 26 January 1983 |
| 292 | Lieutenant General | Yashwanth Dattatreya Sahasrabuddhe | Indian Army | IC-1603 (ASC) | 26 January 1983 |
| 293 | Lieutenant General | Man Mohan Lal Ghai | Indian Army | IC-3954 (Engineers) | 26 January 1983 |
| 294 | Lieutenant General | Kanwal Kishan Hazari AVSM | Indian Army | IC-4468 (Artillery) | 26 January 1983 |
| 295 | Lieutenant General | Manohar Singh Sodhi | Indian Army | IC-1592 (Signals) | 26 January 1983 |
| 296 | Lieutenant General | Tilak Bahadur Nanda | Indian Army | IC-1001 | 26 January 1983 |
| 297 | Vice Admiral | Sardari Lal Sethi AVSM NM | Indian Navy | 00052T | 26 January 1983 |
| 298 | Vice Admiral | Anil Kumar Bhatia AVSM VSM | Indian Navy | 50005Y | 26 January 1983 |
| 299 | Surgeon Vice Admiral | Gopala Kuppuswamy VSM (Ret'd) | Indian Navy | 75006T | 26 January 1983 |
| 300 | Air Marshal | Kanwar Iqbal Singh Chhabra AVSM | Indian Air Force | 3591 F(N) | 26 January 1983 |
| 301 | Air Marshal | Minoo Jehangir Dotiwalla | Indian Air Force | 3839 F(P) | 26 January 1983 |
| 302 | Air Marshal | Satish Chandra Lal | Indian Air Force | 3793 AE(L) | 26 January 1983 |
| 303 | Air Marshal | Kapil Dev Chadha VM | Indian Air Force | 3845 F(P) | 26 January 1983 |
| 304 | Major General | Narinder Singh | Indian Army | IC-3935 (Armoured Corps) | 26 January 1983 |
| 305 | Major General | Sudarshan Lal Malhotra AVSM | Indian Army | IC-4789 (Infantry) | 26 January 1983 |
| 306 | Major General | Naresh Kumar | Indian Army | IC-5844 (Artillery) | 26 January 1983 |
| 307 | Major General | Vijay Kumar Nayar SM | Indian Army | IC-5858 (Infantry) | 26 January 1983 |
| 308 | Major General | Ashoke Banerjee VrC | Indian Army | MR-381 (AMC) | 26 January 1983 |
| 309 | Major General | Stanley William Burrett AVSM (Ret'd) | Indian Army | IC-1589 (Engineers) | 26 January 1983 |
| 310 | Major General | Brij Nath Dhar (Ret'd) | Indian Army | IC-2381 (AOC) | 26 January 1983 |
| 311 | Major General | Vattarangath Gouri (Ret'd) | Indian Army | NR-680965 (MNS) | 26 January 1983 |
| 312 | Air Vice Marshal | Shri Krishna Chandra Gupta VSM | Indian Air Force | 3568 A | 26 January 1983 |
| 313 | Lieutenant General | Krishnaswami Balaram | Indian Army | IC-2271 (Signals) | 26 January 1984 |
| 314 | Lieutenant General | Hridaya Kaul AVSM | Indian Army | IC-3941 (Armoured Corps) | 26 January 1984 |
| 315 | Lieutenant General | Mathew Thomas AVSM VSM | Indian Army | IC-3950 (Infantry) | 26 January 1984 |
| 316 | Lieutenant General | Ranjit Singh Dyal MVC | Indian Army | IC-4004 (Infantry) | 26 January 1984 |
| 317 | Lieutenant General | Sahdev Sehgal | Indian Army | IC-2304 (Infantry) | 26 January 1984 |
| 318 | Lieutenant General | Anant Dattatraya Mohoni VSM | Indian Army | IC-1730 (AOC) | 26 January 1984 |
| 319 | Lieutenant General | Devendra Swaroop | Indian Army | IC-4241 (EME) | 26 January 1984 |
| 320 | Vice Admiral | Mihir Kumar Roy AVSM | Indian Navy | 00040R | 26 January 1984 |
| 321 | Vice Admiral | Radhakrishna Hariram Tahiliani AVSM | Indian Navy | 00050N | 26 January 1984 |
| 322 | Vice Admiral | Subimal Mookerjee AVSM | Indian Navy | 00053W | 26 January 1984 |
| 323 | Vice Admiral | Kewal Krishan Nayyar AVSM | Indian Navy | 00054Y | 26 January 1984 |
| 324 | Air Marshal | Erasseri Pathayapurayil Radhakrishnan Nair AVSM VSM | Indian Air Force | 3837 F(N) | 26 January 1984 |
| 325 | Air Marshal | Denis Arthur La Fontaine AVSM VM | Indian Air Force | 3844 F(P) | 26 January 1984 |
| 326 | Air Marshal | Jagjit Singh Sandhanwalia VSM | Indian Air Force | 3810 AE(M) | 26 January 1984 |
| 327 | Major General | Aravind Moreshwar Joglekar | Indian Army | IC-2352 (Engineers) | 26 January 1984 |
| 328 | Major General | Rajendra Keshavrao Gupte | Indian Army | IC-2390 (Signals) | 26 January 1984 |
| 329 | Major General | Amar Singh Sehgal | Indian Army | IC-4022 (AOC) | 26 January 1984 |
| 330 | Major General | Misbah Mayadas | Indian Army | IC-5102 (Armoured Corps) | 26 January 1984 |
| 331 | Major General | Sami Khan SM | Indian Army | IC-5376 (Infantry) | 26 January 1984 |
| 332 | Air Vice Marshal | Madan Lal Sethi AVSM | Indian Air Force | 4009 F(N) | 26 January 1984 |
| 333 | Air Vice Marshal | Johnny William Greene AVSM VrC VM | Indian Air Force | 4093 F(P) | 26 January 1984 |
| 334 | Air Vice Marshal | Jugal Kishor Kapur AVSM VSM | Indian Air Force | 4044 AE(M) | 26 January 1984 |
| 335 | Lieutenant General | Bhupindar Singh | Indian Army | IC-2257 (Artillery) | 26 January 1985 |
| 336 | Lieutenant General | Kanwar Chiman Singh | Indian Army | IC-2276 (Infantry) | 26 January 1985 |
| 337 | Lieutenant General | Mohan Lal Tuli | Indian Army | IC-2355 (Infantry) | 26 January 1985 |
| 338 | Lieutenant General | Himmeth Singh | Indian Army | IC-4665 (Infantry) | 26 January 1985 |
| 339 | Lieutenant General | Codanda Nanjappa Somanna | Indian Army | IC-4471 (AOC) | 26 January 1985 |
| 340 | Lieutenant General | Jagdish Raj Malhotra AVSM | Indian Army | IC-3964 (Artillery) | 26 January 1985 |
| 341 | Lieutenant General | Rajindar Singh | Indian Army | IC-4525 (Artillery) | 26 January 1985 |
| 342 | Lieutenant General | Pran Nath Kathpalia AVSM | Indian Army | IC-4528 (Infantry-Kumaon Regiment) | 26 January 1985 |
| 343 | Lieutenant General | Jagat Mohan Vohra SM | Indian Army | IC-4767 (Armoured Corps) | 26 January 1985 |
| 344 | Lieutenant General | Kumar Mahipat Sinhji | Indian Army | IC-5095 (Infantry) | 26 January 1985 |
| 345 | Lieutenant General | Ananta Narayanan Ramasubramaniam | Indian Army | MR-371 (Medical) | 26 January 1985 |
| 346 | Major General | Tirath Singh Verma | Indian Army | IC-4566 (Infantry) | 26 January 1985 |
| 347 | Major General | Ravinder Nath Kapoor | Indian Army | IC-5132 (Artillery) | 26 January 1985 |
| 348 | Major General | Mahendra Nath Rawat (Ret'd) | Indian Army | IC-4779 (Infantry) | 26 January 1985 |
| 349 | Major General | Karam Singh SM | Indian Army | IC-5839 (Infantry) | 26 January 1985 |
| 350 | Major General | Jagdish Narayan VSM | Indian Army | MR-0597 (Medical) | 26 January 1985 |
| 351 | Major General | Baldev Rai Prashar AVSM | Indian Army | IC-19384 (JAG) | 26 January 1985 |
| 352 | Vice Admiral | Narendra Bhalla AVSM | Indian Navy | 40010-F | 26 January 1985 |
| 353 | Vice Admiral | Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni AVSM NM VSM | Indian Navy | 00086-W | 26 January 1985 |
| 354 | Air Marshal | Prem Pal Singh MVC AVSM | Indian Air Force | 3871 F(P) | 26 January 1985 |
| 355 | Air Marshal | Subramaniam Raghavendran AVSM | Indian Air Force | 3840 F(P) | 26 January 1985 |
| 356 | Air Marshal | Puran Singh Bajwa | Indian Air Force | 3520 (Medical) | 26 January 1985 |
| 357 | Air Vice Marshal | Narayanan Krishnan Nair VSM (Ret'd) | Indian Air Force | 4075 AE(E) | 26 January 1985 |
| 358 | Air Vice Marshal | Daya Shanker Mishra AVSM VSM (Ret'd) | Indian Air Force | 4067 AE(M) | 26 January 1985 |