Unlike in the past when most of the award winning GCs belonged to armed forces background, none of the top awardees of the spring term- 2016 had this privilege.
The father of recipient of Sword of honour Rajendra Singh Bisht is a civilian staff in Kumaon Regimental Centre, Ranikhet. Incidentally Bisht was the also conferred upon the bronze medal for being the GC standing third in order of merit in the 138 regular course.
The father of Aman Dhaka, the recipient of Gold medal for standing first in order of merit in the regular course was a Professor in Delhi University. After death of his Professor father, mother Niti Dhaka ensured that no hindrance occurs in the goal of Aman to join armed forces.
A resident of Janakpuri in Delhi, Dhakha is the first person in the family to don olive green colours and thanked his family members for their support. A resident of a small town Velanguddi in Shivganga district of Tamil Nadu, N Dinesh Kumar was conferred the Silver medal for standing second in order of merit in the Regular course. He too is from a non army back ground.
His father P Nellioan is an Agricultural Engineer serving in a state government department. A beaming Dinesh Kumar who is commissioned into 19 Battalion of Engineers said that his parents and teachers always helped him to reach at this juncture.
The father of the Avijit Hazara Choudhary the recipient of Silver medal for standing first in order of merit in Technical Graduate course, Prabir Hazara Choudhary is a retired Supervisor from an engineering college.
An elated Avijit said that such was his desire to join the army that he refused a job in Infosys company that was offered to him soon after
completing BTech from Haldia Institute of Technology. The native of Burdwan district in West Bengal has been commissioned in the 68 Engineering regiment.