29 prison personnel selected for President's Service Medal

New Delhi, Aug 14 (UNI) A total of 29 prison personnel have been awarded President's Correctional Service Medal on the occasion of Diamond Jubilee of the Independence Day.

Vijay Kumar Gulati, Central Jail, Hissar (Haryana) was posthumously awarded President's Correctional Service Medal for Gallantry.

Two prison officials -- Bankim Chandra Mahanty, Senior Superintendent, Circle Jail, Choudwar, Orissa, and Satyendra Pal Singh Pundhir, Additional DG of Prisons (Training&Development), Sampurnanand Jail Training Institute, Lucknow, have ben selected for President's Correctional Service Medal for Distinguished Service.

In addition, 26 officials have been awarded Correctional Service Medal for Meritorious Service.

They are: 1. K. Doddakamaiah, Jailor, Tumkur Head Quarter, Tumkur, Karnataka; 2. Sirajuddin Shaik Ali Shaikh, Chief Warder, Belgaum, Karnataka; 3. N. Munireddy, Head Warder, Bangalore Central Jail, Bangalore; 4. Balappa Tukaram Bhalare, Head Warder, Belgaum, Karnataka; 5. K.P. Rajagopalan Nair, Superintendent District Jail, Thiruvanathpuram; 6. Anil Kumar Singh Parihar, Senior Probation&Welfare Officer, District Jail, Chhindwara, Madhya Pradesh; 7. Vijay Bahadur Singh Gaharwar, Jailor, Datia, Madhya Pradesh; 8. Narendra Singh Thakur, Jailor, District Jail, Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh; 9. Dildar Ali Khan, Warder, Balasore District Jail, Balasore, Orissa; 10. Padma Lochan Pani, Head Warder Sub-Jail, Rairangpur, Orissa 11. Rabindra Nath Barik, Sub- Assistant Jailor, Cuttack Circle Jail, Choudwar, Orissa; 12. Panchanan Nayak, Prison Welfare Officer, Koraput District Jail, Koraput, Orissa; 13. Rama Chandra Nayak, Jailor, Circle Jail, Berhampur, Orissa; 14. Debendra Nath Panda, Superintendent District Jail, Koraput, Orissa; 15. Sahib Singh, Head Warder, Central Jail, Amritsar, Punjab; 16. M. Chenthoor Pandian, DIG of Prisons, Chennai Range; 17. M. Murugan, Chief Head Warder Sub-Jail, Usilampatti, Tamil Nadu; 18. Mrs. N. Malarkodi, Chief Head Warder Special Prison for Women, Vellore, Tamil Nadu; 19. P. Kaliappan, Grade-I Warder, Central Prison, Salem, Tamil Nadu 20. Chhotelal Chaturvedi, Warder, Model Jail, Lucknow, UP; 21. Ramesh Chandra Sharma, Head Warder, Model Jail, Lucknow; 22. Bahadur Singh, Warder, Central Jail, Bareilly, UP; 23. Mrs. Janki Devi, Women Head Warder, District Jail, Rampur, UP; 24. Mrs. Bichitra Bhattacharya, Principal, Training Institute, Medinipur, District West Midnapore, West Bengal; 25. Bhajan Chandra Pal, Chief Head Warder, Presidency Correctional Home, West Bengal; and 26. Bhakta Bahadur Pradhan, Head Warder, Siliguri Special Correctional Home, West Bengal.

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