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

• General K.S. Thimayya
• General G.G. Bewoor
• General Vishwa Nath Sharma
• General Sundararajan Padmanabhan
• General Gul Hasan, Commander-in-Chief, Pakistan Army

Chief of Air Staff

• Air Chief Marshal N.C. Suri
• Air Marshal Asghar Khan, PAF
• Air Marshal Nur Khan, PAF
• Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa

Vice Chief of Army Staff

• Lt General S. K. Singh, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, ADC & Administrative Member, Armed Forces Tribunal
• Lt General Chandi Prasad Mohanty PVSM,AVSM,SM,VSM is a General Officer in the Indian Army.

Vice Chief of Air Staff

• Air Marshal Vinod Patney, SYSM, PVSM, AVSM, VrC, ADC, Ex-VCAS & Ex-AOC-in-C Western Air Command

GOC-in-C & GOC

• Lt. General Premindra Singh Bhagat, PVSM, VC, GOC-in-C Central Command
• Lt. General K.P. Candeth, GOC-in-C Western Command, Famous 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 & AOC

• Air Marshal Balakrishnan Suresh, PVSM, AVSM, VM, ADC, AOC-in-C Western Air Command and Southern Air Command

Adjutant General

• Major General Hira Lal Atal
• Lt. General M.M. Lakhera, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Ex - Governor of Mizoram, Ex- Lt. Governor of Pondicherry, & Ex- Lt. Governor of Andaman & Nicobar Islands (additional charge).
• Major General Karam Singh, PVSM, SM, Dy Adjutant General

Engineer-in-Chief

• Lt General Sahabzada Yaqub Khan (Pakistan Army)

Commandant IMA

• Lt Gen M.A. Zaki
• Lt Gen Manvendra Singh, PVSM, AVSM, VSM (Ex- GOC 5 Mtn Div & Ex-GOC Delhi Area)

Indian National Army

• Maj General Jaganath Rao Bhonsle
• Burhan-ud-Din
• Maj General Shah Nawaz Khan

Gallantry awards

Victoria Cross

• Lt Gen Premindra Singh Bhagat, PVSM, VC

Distinguished Service Order

• Gen Kodandera Subayya Thimayya, DSO
• Maj Gen Thakur Mahadeo Singh, DSO
• Brig Vidya Dhar Jayal, DSO

Param Vir Chakra

• Major Somnath Sharma

Vir Chakra

• Lt Gen M.A. Zaki

Civilian awards

Padma Vibhushan

• General K.S. Thimayya

Padma Bhushan

• Joginder Singh Dhillon
• K.P. Candeth
• Gopal Gurunath Bewoor

Padma Shri

• Lt General M.A. Zaki
• Lt General K.P. Candeth

Sports

• Ritwik Bhattacharya, a world top 50 Squash player

Ministers

• 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

• Shaharyar Khan, Foreign Secretary, Head of Pakistan's Diplomatic Corps
• Ashwani Kumar, Former Director CBI, Governor of Nagaland (21 March 2013 – 27 June 2014)
• Rajiv Ratan, IPS, Additional Director General of Police, Telangana State
• Lt Gen MM Lakhera, Lt Governor Puducherry and Governor of Mizoram, PVSM, AVSM, VSM

Authors and Academics

• Maj Gen Ashok Mehta, Author & Commentator
• Maj Gen Dipankar Banerjee, Author & Commentator

References

• Where Gallantry is Tradition: Saga of Rashtriya Indian Military College, By Bikram Singh, Sidharth Mishra, Contributor Rashtriya Indian Military College, Published 1997 by Allied Publishers, Military education, 232 pages, ISBN 81-7023-649-5