Remembering Company Quarter Master Havildar Abdul Hamid, who was posthumously awarded Param Vir Chakra, the highest military decoration for displaying exemplary courage and valour in 1965 Indo-Pak war, the Rashtriya Sainik Sansthan, Ghaziabad, organised a felicitation programme on the day of his martyrdom which falls on September 10.
At the Battle of Asal Uttar on 9-10 September 1965, he destroyed six Pakistani Patton tanks and attained martyrdom during an engagement with a seventh tank. His exemplary act of courage helped in preventing the advance of the enemy.
Colonel (retd) Tejandra Pal Singh Tyagi, Chairman of the Rashtriya Sainik Sansthan presented a memoir to Akhlaque Ahmad of Abdul Hamid's family.
On this occasion Col. Tyagi recalled that in 1965 on September 10, Abdul Hamid (PVC) not only sacrificed his life for the nation but destroyed six Patton tanks of Pakistani Army but got martyred in attempt to destroy the seventh. He successfully stopped the advance of the enemy.
The sansthan felicitated Margoob Tyagi the heir of Jabardast Khan, a martyr of 1857 Meerut mutiny and Vijay Sisodia the heir of Thakur Durga Singh who was hanged to death along with 14 others in Dhaulana in 1857 for involvement in Meerut mutiny.
Suresh Chand Tyagi, President of the UP unit of the sansthan presented a memoir and a shawl to Margoob Tyagi and Vijay Singh Sisodia.
The sansthan remembered the sacrifice of Major Mohit Sharma (Ashoka Chakra), Captain GS Suri (Maha Vir Chakra), Captain Davendra Jas (Kirti Chakra), Captain Mohan Singh (Shaurya Chakra) who sacrificed their lives to defend our borders.
Rajya Sabha MP Anil Agrawal was the guest of honour and chief General Manager of ALT center MK Seth presided over the function. ALT Center is an advance level training centre run by Telecom and Communication ministry government of India. The function was hosted in the auditorium of ALT Center.