Answer» Correct Answer - Option 3 : Ashoka Chakra
The correct answer is Ashoka Chakra. - The Ashoka Chakra is India's highest peacetime military decoration awarded for valour, courageous action, or self-sacrifice away from the battlefield.
- It is the peacetime equivalent of the Param Vir Chakra (PVC) and is awarded for the "most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent valor or self-sacrifice" other than in the face of the enemy.
- The decoration may be awarded either to military or civilian personnel.
- President Ram Nath Kovind awarded India's highest peacetime military decoration Ashok Chakra (31) posthumously to Indian Air Force (IAF) Garud commando Corporal Jyoti Prakash Nirala.
- Colonel Bikumalla Santosh Babu was conferred with Mahavir Chakra in 2020.
- Havildar Bachittar Singh was the first person who became the first Indian to receive this gallantry Award 'Ashoka Chakra'.
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