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

Name	Notability	Ref.
General K.S. Thimayya	Chief of Army Staff
General G.G. Bewoor	Chief of Army Staff
General Vishwa Nath Sharma	Chief of Army Staff
General Sundararajan Padmanabhan	Chief of Army Staff
General Gul Hasan	Commander-in-Chief, Pakistan Army

Chief of Air Staff

Name	Notability	Ref.
Air Chief Marshal N.C. Suri	Chief of Air Staff
Air Marshal Asghar Khan	Chief of Air Staff, PAF
Air Marshal Nur Khan	Chief of Air Staff, PAF
Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa	Chief of Air Staff

Vice Chief of Army Staff

Name	Notability	Ref.
Lt General S. K. Singh	PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, ADC and Administrative Member, Armed Forces Tribunal
Lt General Chandi Prasad Mohanty	PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM; General Officer in the Indian Army

Vice Chief of Air Staff

Name	Notability	Ref.
Air Marshal Vinod Patney	SYSM, PVSM, AVSM, VrC, ADC; former Vice Chief of Air Staff and former AOC-in-C Western Air Command

GOC-in-C and GOC

Name	Notability	Ref.
Lt General Premindra Singh Bhagat	PVSM, VC; GOC-in-C Central Command
Lt General K.P. Candeth	GOC-in-C Western Command; known 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 and AOC

Name	Notability	Ref.
Air Marshal Balakrishnan Suresh	PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC; AOC-in-C Western Air Command and Southern Air Command

Adjutant General

Name	Notability	Ref.
Major General Hira Lal Atal	Adjutant General
Lt General M.M. Lakhera	PVSM, AVSM, VSM; former Governor of Mizoram, former Lt Governor of Puducherry, and former Lt Governor of Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Major General Karam Singh	PVSM, SM; Deputy Adjutant General

Engineer-in-Chief

Name	Notability	Ref.
Lt General Sahabzada Yaqub Khan	Engineer-in-Chief, Pakistan Army
Major General Muhammad Anwar Khan	Engineer-in-Chief, Pakistan Army

Commandant, Indian Military Academy

Name	Notability	Ref.
Lt Gen M.A. Zaki	Commandant, Indian Military Academy
Lt Gen Manvendra Singh	PVSM, AVSM, VSM; former GOC 5 Mountain Division and former GOC Delhi Area

Indian National Army

Name	Notability	Ref.
Maj General Jaganath Rao Bhonsle	Indian National Army officer
Burhan-ud-Din	Indian National Army officer
Maj General Shah Nawaz Khan	Indian National Army officer

Gallantry awards

Victoria Cross

Name	Award	Ref.
Lt Gen Premindra Singh Bhagat	PVSM, VC

Distinguished Service Order

Name	Award	Ref.
Gen Kodandera Subayya Thimayya	DSO
Maj Gen Thakur Mahadeo Singh	DSO
Brig Vidya Dhar Jayal	DSO

Param Vir Chakra

Name	Award	Ref.
Major Somnath Sharma	Param Vir Chakra

Vir Chakra

Name	Award	Ref.
Lt Gen M.A. Zaki	Vir Chakra

Civilian awards

Padma Vibhushan

Name	Award	Ref.
General K.S. Thimayya	Padma Vibhushan

Padma Bhushan

Name	Award	Ref.
Joginder Singh Dhillon	Padma Bhushan
K.P. Candeth	Padma Bhushan
Gopal Gurunath Bewoor	Padma Bhushan

Padma Shri

Name	Award	Ref.
Lt General M.A. Zaki	Padma Shri
Lt General K.P. Candeth	Padma Shri

Sports

Name	Notability	Ref.
Ritwik Bhattacharya	World top 50 squash player

Ministers

Name	Notability	Ref.
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

Name	Notability	Ref.
Shaharyar Khan	Foreign Secretary and head of Pakistan's diplomatic corps
Ashwani Kumar	Former Director of CBI and Governor of Nagaland
Rajiv Ratan	IPS officer and Additional Director General of Police, Telangana State
Lt Gen M.M. Lakhera	Lt Governor of Puducherry and Governor of Mizoram; PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Authors and academics

Name	Notability	Ref.
Maj Gen Ashok Mehta	Author and commentator
Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee	Author and commentator

References

• Where Gallantry is Tradition: Saga of Rashtriya Indian Military College, by Bikram Singh and Sidharth Mishra, Contributor Rashtriya Indian Military College, Allied Publishers, 1997, ISBN 81-7023-649-5.