Medals

Awards and Medals

Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabhandhan Puraskar Award

With a view to recognize the contribution and selfless service of individual and institutions in the field of Disaster Management, Government has instituted an annual award titled “Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar”. The award will be announced every year on 23rd January on the birth anniversary of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

All Indian Citizens and organizations, who have excelled in areas of Disaster Management; like Prevention, Mitigation, Preparedness, Rescue, Response, Relief, Rehabilitation, Research/ Innovations or Early Warning are eligible for the Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Puraskar. The last date for filling up application for the Award for each year shall be 30th September.

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The year-wise details of Subhash Chandra Bose Aapda Prabandhan Award are as given below:

S.No.	Year	Recipient
		Individual	Institution
1	2019		8th Bn National Disaster Response Force, Ghaziabad
2	2020	Shri Kumar Munnan Singh	Disaster Mitigation & Management Centre, Uttarakhand
3	2021	Dr. Rajendra Kumar Bhandari	Sustainable Environment and Ecological Development Society (SEEDS)
4	2022	Prof. Vinod Sharma	Gujarat Institute of Disaster Management

Medals

Each year, the Central Government recognizes the distinguished services of the Fire Services, Home Guards and Civil Defence personnel by conferring awards to outstanding personnel.

There are total 08 types of medal for:

Fire Service

President’s Gallantry Medal for Fire Service:
Gallantry Medal for Fire Service:
Presidents’ Fire Service Medal for Distinguished Service
Fire Service Medal for Meritorious Service

Home Guards & Civil Defence

President’s Gallantry Medal for Home Guards and Civil Defence:
Gallantry Medal for Home Guards and Civil Defence:
Presidents’ Home Guards and Civil Defence Medal for Distinguished Service
Home Guards and Civil Defence Medal for Meritorious Service

These awards were instituted in 1974 and 1975 through Presidential notifications. These medals are awarded twice every year, i.e. on the Republic Day and Independence Day.

Criteria:

Medal type	Criteria
President Gallantry Medal	For highest order of valour, gallantry/bravery
Gallantry Medal	For Ordinary act of gallantry
Distinguished Service Medal	For distinguished record of service marked by exceptional ability and merit and is generally considered after five years of the award/receipt of meritorious service medals
Meritorious Service Medals	For valuable service characterized by devotion to duty, including prolonged unbroken service over 10 to 15 years for regular paid staff and 8 years for volunteers of Civil Defence & Home Guards Organization.

Number of medals :

There is no limit on the number of gallantry medals that can be given during the year. The number of service medals that can be given during the year are as under :-

Type of service medals	Home Guard and Civil Defence			Fire Services
	Republic Day ( 26th January)	Independence Day ( 15th August)	Total	Republic Day ( 26th January)	Independence Day ( 15th August)	Total
President’s Distinguished Service Medal	25	25	50	13	12	25
Meritorious Service Medal	50	50	100	50	50	100
Total	75	75	150	63	62	125

Process of Selection:

The recommendations received from the States/UTs/Ministries/Departments are first scrutinized/examined by the Screening Committee under the Chairmanship of the Director General (Fire Service, Civil Defence and Home Guards), Ministry of Home Affairs. In case the number of recommendations received from States/UTs/Central Ministries are more than the total number who can be awarded the medal, then the number of awards given to particular States/UTs/Central Ministries are worked out on the basis of (a) Size of the State (b) Number of Fire Service Personnel (c) Distribution of number of award on pro-rata basis (d) Age, length of service, number of awards/commendation certificate, category, gender ACR grading and overall performance of the candidate. (e) Awards to be equitably distributed amongst various ranks in the officers and staff.

Thereafter, short listed recommendations of the Screening Committee are placed before the Approving Committee, chaired by Secretary/Additional Secretary in charge of Disaster Management in the Ministry of Home Affairs for approval of the President of India through the appropriate channel.

During 2021, 268 medals were awarded to Fire Service, Home Guards & Civil Defence Personnel.

The year-wise details of Medals are as given below:

Years	Fire service Medals		Home Guard & Civil Defence Medals
	Republic Day	Independence Day	Republic Day	Independence Day
2022	FS Medals (RD, 2022)		HG&CD Medals (RD, 2022)
2021	FS Medals (RD, 2021)	FS Medals (ID, 2021)	HG&CD Medals (RD, 2021)	HG&CD Medals (ID, 2021)
2020	FS Medals (RD, 2020)	FS Medals (ID, 2020)	HG&CD Medals (RD, 2020)	HG&CD Medals (ID, 2020)
2019	FS Medals (RD, 2019)	FS Medals (ID, 2019)	HG&CD Medals (RD, 2019)	HG&CD Medals (ID, 2019)
2018	FS Medals (RD, 2018)	FS Medals(ID, 2018	HG&CD Medals (RD, 2018)	HG&CD Medals (ID, 2018)
2017	FS Medals(RD, 2017)	FS Medals(ID, 2017	HG&CD Medals (RD, 2017)	HG&CD Medals (ID, 2017)
2016	FS Medals(RD, 2016)	FS Medals (ID, 2016)	HG&CD Medals (RD, 2016)	HG&CDMedals (ID 2016)