- Source: List of Rimcollians
The following is a list of some of the prominent alumni of Rashtriya Indian Military College, Dehradun, India. All students who graduate from this school are called Rimcollians.
Chief of Army Staff
General K.S. Thimayya
General G.G. Bewoor
General Vishwa Nath Sharma
General Sundararajan Padmanabhan
General Gul Hasan, Commander-in-Chief, Pakistan Army
Chief of Air Staff
Air Chief Marshal N.C. Suri
Air Marshal Asghar Khan, PAF
Air Marshal Nur Khan, PAF
Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa
Vice Chief of Army Staff
Lt General S. K. Singh, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, ADC & Administrative Member, Armed Forces Tribunal
Lt General Chandi Prasad Mohanty PVSM,AVSM,SM,VSM is a General Officer in the Indian Army.
Vice Chief of Air Staff
Air Marshal Vinod Patney, SYSM, PVSM, AVSM, VrC, ADC, Ex-VCAS & Ex-AOC-in-C Western Air Command
GOC-in-C & GOC
Lt. General Premindra Singh Bhagat, PVSM, VC, GOC-in-C Central Command
Lt. General K.P. Candeth, GOC-in-C Western Command, Famous as the liberator of Goa
Lt. General Joginder Singh Dhillon, Padma Bhushan, GOC-in-C Central Command
Lt. General Chandi Prasad Mohanty, AVSM, SM, VSM.
Lt. General Bikram Singh, GOC XV Corps killed in the 1963 Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter crash
Lt.General Khwaja Wasiuddin.HPK.SPK Commander II Corps. Pakistan Army.
Lieutenant General Nav Kumar Khanduri AVSM, VSM
AOC-in-C & AOC
Air Marshal Balakrishnan Suresh, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, AOC-in-C Western Air Command and Southern Air Command
Adjutant General
Major General Hira Lal Atal
Lt. General M.M. Lakhera, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Ex - Governor of Mizoram, Ex- Lt. Governor of Pondicherry, & Ex- Lt. Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands (additional charge).
Major General Karam Singh, PVSM, SM, Dy Adjutant General
Engineer-in-Chief
Lt General Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (Pakistan Army)
Commandant IMA
Lt Gen M.A. Zaki
Lt Gen Manvendra Singh, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Ex- GOC 5 Mtn Div & Ex-GOC Delhi Area)
Indian National Army
Maj General Jaganath Rao Bhonsle
Burhan-ud-Din
Maj General Shah Nawaz Khan
Gallantry awards
= Victoria Cross
=Lt Gen Premindra Singh Bhagat, PVSM, VC
= Distinguished Service Order
=Gen Kodandera Subayya Thimayya, DSO
Maj Gen Thakur Mahadeo Singh, DSO
Brig Vidya Dhar Jayal, DSO
= Param Vir Chakra
=Major Somnath Sharma
= Vir Chakra
=Lt Gen M.A. Zaki
Civilian awards
= Padma Vibhushan
=General K.S. Thimayya
= Padma Bhushan
=Joginder Singh Dhillon
K.P. Candeth
Gopal Gurunath Bewoor
= Padma Shri
=Lt General M.A. Zaki
Lt General K.P. Candeth
Sports
Ritwik Bhattacharya, a world top 50 Squash player
Ministers
Maj General Shah Nawaz Khan, Minister of Railways, Central Government
Maj General J.K. Bhonsle, Minister of Rehabilitation, Central Government
Sahabzada Yaqub Khan, Foreign Minister, Pakistan
Naseerullah Babar, Interior Minister, Pakistan
Diplomats and Civil servants
Shaharyar Khan, Foreign Secretary, Head of Pakistan's Diplomatic Corps
Ashwani Kumar, Former Director CBI, Governor of Nagaland (21 March 2013 – 27 June 2014)
Rajiv Ratan, IPS, Additional Director General of Police, Telangana State
Lt Gen MM Lakhera, Lt Governor Puducherry and Governor of Mizoram, PVSM, AVSM, VSM
Authors and Academics
Maj Gen Ashok Mehta, Author & Commentator
Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee, Author & Commentator
References
Where Gallantry is Tradition: Saga of Rashtriya Indian Military College, By Bikram Singh, Sidharth Mishra, Contributor Rashtriya Indian Military College, Published 1997 by Allied Publishers, Military education, 232 pages, ISBN 81-7023-649-5
