Vikram Batra
Recipient of Param Vir Chakra (1974–1999)
Captain Vikram Batra, (9 September 1974 – 7 July 1999) was an Indian Army officer. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration, for his actions during the Kargil War. On 7 July 1999, Batra was killed while fighting Pakistani troops at Point 4875 in the Kargil district of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir.
Early life and education
Batra was born on 9 September 1974 in Palampur, Himachal Pradesh to a Punjabi Hindu Khatri family. He was the third child of Girdhari Lal Batra, a government school principal, and Kamal Kanta Batra, a school teacher. The older of twin sons, he was born fourteen minutes before his brother, Vishal. The twins were nicknamed: 'Luv' (Vikram) and 'Kush' (Vishal), after the twin sons of the Hindu deity Rama, by their mother who was a professed devotee of Rama. He had two sisters: Seema and Nutan. As a young child, Batra received his primary education under the tutelage of his mother. He received his Primary Education at GPS Tikri-Mushehra (Chauntra-1) in Mandi district of Himachal Pradesh.
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