Kargil Vijay Diwas

Kargil Vijay Diwas, named after the success of Operation Vijay. On this day, 26 July 1999, India successfully took command of the high outposts which had been lost to Pakistani intruders. The Kargil war was fought for more than 60 days, ended on 26 July. and resulted in the loss of life on both sides, India and Pakistan. Pakistan retreated after international diplomatic pressure

Kargil Vijay Diwas is celebrated on 26 July every year in honour of the Kargil War's Heroes. This day is celebrated in the Kargil - Dras sector and the national capital New Delhi, where the Prime Minister of India, pays homage to the soldiers at Amar Jawan Jyothi at India Gate every year. Functions are also organized all over the country to commemorate the contribution of the Armed forces

History
After the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, there had been a long period with relatively few direct armed conflicts involving the military forces of the two neighbors – notwithstanding the efforts of both nations to control the Siachen Glacier by establishing military outposts on the surrounding mountains ridges and the resulting military skirmishes in the 1980s. During the 1990s, however, escalating tensions and conflict due to separatist activities in Kashmir, some of which were supported by Pakistan[citation needed], as well as the conducting of nuclear tests by both countries in 1998, led to an increasingly belligerent atmosphere. In an attempt to defuse the situation, both countries signed the Lahore Declaration in February 1999, promising to provide a peaceful and bilateral solution to the Kashmir conflict.During the winter of 1998 -1999, some elements of the Pakistani Armed Forces were covertly training and sending Pakistani troops and paramilitary forces, some allegedly in the guise ofmujahideen, into territory on the Indian side of the LOC. The infiltration was code named "Operation Badr",its aim was to sever the link between Kashmir and Ladakh, and cause Indian forces to withdraw from the Siachen Glacier, thus forcing India to negotiate a settlement of the broader Kashmir dispute. Pakistan also believed that any tension in the region would internationalise the Kashmir issue, helping it to secure a speedy resolution. Yet another goal may have been to boost the morale of the decade-long rebellion in Indian Administered Kashmir by taking a proactive role.

Initially, with little knowledge of the nature or extent of the infiltration, the Indian troops in the area assumed that the infiltrators were jihadis and claimed that they would evict them within a few days. Subsequent discovery of infiltration elsewhere along the LOC, and the difference in tactics employed by the infiltrators, caused the Indian army to realize that the plan of attack was on a much bigger scale. The total area seized by the ingress is generally accepted to between 130 km² – 200 km².

The Government of India responded with Operation Vijay, a mobilisation of 200,000 Indian troops.Finally war came to an official end on July 26,1999,thus making it the Vijay Diwas.

Kargil War Martyrs
In all 527 soldiers from Indian Armed Forces sacrificed their lives during the war

Lieutanant Col R.Vishwanathan

Major Rohit Gaur

Major Ajay Prasad

Major C.B. Dwive

Major Kamlesh Prasad

Major Padmapani Acharya

Major Parmanand

Major Rajesh S. Adhikari

Major Vivek Gupta

Major Mariappan Saravanan

Major Manoj Talwar

Captain Amit Bhardwaj

Captain Aditya Mishra

Captain Haneefuddin

Captain Jerry Premraj

Captain Jintu Gogoi

Captain Keishing Clifford Nongrum

Captain P.V.Vikram

Captain Vikram Batra

Captain Anuj Nayyar

Captain Amol Kalia

Captain Kanad Bhattacharya

Captain K.C.D. Shivakar

Captain Deepak Guleria

Captain Sumeet Roy

Captain Amit Verma

Captain Manoj Kumar Pandey

Captain Vijayant Thapar

Lieutanant Amit Kaul

Lieutanant Neikezhakou Kengurusie

Lieutanant Sourav Kalia

Lieutenant Amit Bhargava

Deputy Commander Sukhbir Singh Yadav

Driver-Soldier Gopinath Moharana

Flight Engineer Raj Kishore Sahoo

Flight Lieutanant S Muhilan

Grenadier Amardeep

Grenadier Bajinder Singh

Grenadier Mohan Katha

Grenadier Munish Kumar

Grenadier Raj Kumar

Grenadier Yogendra Singh Yadav

Grenadier Udhaymaan Singh (SM)

Havaldar Abdul Karim

Havaldar Beejay Singh

Havaldar Daler Singh Bahu

Havaldar Jai Prakash Singh

Havaldar Khazan Singh

Havaldar Padam Singh Dhama

Havaldar Ram Kumar

Havaldar Sarwan Singh Sengar

Havaldar Surendra Singh

Havaldar Sultan Singh Narwari

Havaldar Tan Bahadur Chhetri

Havaldar Tsweang Rigzin

Havaldar Yashvir Singh

Jawan Arvind Kumar Pandey

Lance Havaldar Ramkumar

Lance Havaldar Samandar Singh Hooda

Lance Naik Ahmed Ali

Lance Naik Balwan Singh

Lance Naik Bijender Singh

Lance Naik Eknath Khairnar

Lance Naik Gurmail Singh

Lance Naik Hera Singh

Lance Naik Keshan Singh

Lance Naik Madan Singh

Lance Naik Manas Ranjan Sahu

Lance Naik Om Prakash

Lance Naik Rakesh Chand

Lance Naik Ram Kumar Pradhan

Lance Naik Surianam Singh

Lance Naik Shankar Shinde

Lance Naik T.S.Jaswant Singh

Lance Naik Rajendra Yadav

Naik Anand singh

Naik Bharat Singh

Naik Birender Singh Lamba

Naik Buta Singh

Naik Chaman Singh

Naik Dharam Singh

Naik Ganesh Prasad Yadav

Naik Guardian Mekh Bahadur Gurung

Naik Jagat Singh

Naik Kasmir Singh

Naik Krishan Pal

Naik Mangat Singh

Naik Narayana Rao Desai

Naik Nirmal Singh

Naik R. Kamaraj

Naik Raj Kumar Punia

Naik Rakesh Chand

Naik Ram Swarup

Naik Sachidananda Malik

Naik Samunder Singh

Naik Shatrughan Singh

Naik Shiv Vasayya

Naik Surendra Singh

Naik Surendra Pal

Naik Surjeet Singh

Naik Subedar Lal Chand

Naik Vikram Singh

Naik Yoginder Singh

Rifleman Ansuya Prasad Dhayani

Rifleman Bachan Singh

Rifleman Dabal Singh

Rifleman Dilwar Singh

Rifleman Jaideep Singh

Rifleman Kuldeep Singh

Rifleman Linkon Pradhan

Rifleman Mohammed Aslam

Rifleman Mohammed Farid

Rifleman Rattan Chand

Rifleman Shaukat Hussain Kalgam

Rifleman Sunil Jungt Mahat

Rifleman Varinder Lal

Rifleman Vikram Singh

Rifleman Guardian Johar Singh

Rifleman Guardian Sarvan Kumar

Sergeant PVNR Prasad

Sergeant Raj Kishore Sahu

Sepoy Ajmer Singh

Sepoy Amardeep Singh

Sepoy Anil Kumar

Sepoy Arjun Ram

Sepoy Arvind Kumar Pandey

Sepoy Bajinder Singh

Sepoy Bhanwar Lal Bagaria

Sepoy Bhikaram

Sepoy Chara Nicholas

Sepoy Dharambir Singh

Sepoy Dineshkumar Vaghela

Sepoy Gangching Konyak

Sepoy Gazpal Singh

Sepoy Gopinath Mohrana

Sepoy Harendragiri Goswami

Sepoy Jugal Kishore

Sepoy Har Prasad

Sepoy Karan Singh

Sepoy Keolanand Dwivedi

Sepoy Kewal Anand

Sepoy Khem Raj

Sepoy Krishan Kumar

Sepoy Moola Ram

Sepoy Naresh Singh

Sepoy Pramod Kumar

Sepoy Rajinder

Sepoy Rajvir Singh

Sepoy Raswinder Singh

Sepoy Satvir Singh

Sepoy Satnam Singh

Sepoy Senthil

Sepoy Shaikh Mastan Wali

Sepoy Sheesh Ram

Sepoy Shiv Shankar Prasad Gupta

Sepoy Sukhwinder Singh

Sepoy Suresh Chhetri

Sepoy Suresh Kumar

Sepoy Varinder Kumar

Sepoy Vijaypal Singh

Signalman Rajan Sahu

Signalman Vinod Kumar

Subedar Bhanwar Lal

Subedar Harpaul Singh

Subedar Lal Singh

Subedar K. Medappa

Subedar Randhir Singh

Subedar Sumer Singh Rathore

Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja

Squadron Leader Rajiv Pundir

Squadron Leader Lal Singh

Squadron Leader Ojha

Zrfn Man Singh

Zrfn Kaushal Yadav

Zrfn Basavaraj Chougala