1971 War veteran feliciSwarnim Vijay Varsh’tated
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General Officer Commanding, Telangana & Andhra Sub Area Major General R.K. Singh and Military College of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering Commandant Lieutenant General T.S.A. Narayanan, in presence of other war veterans and dignitaries handed over the ‘Victory Flame’ of the 1971 War to Lieutenant Colonel Nagulapalli Narsing Rao (retired) at a felicitation ceremony organised in his honour on receiving the Vir Chakra on Saturday.
This was part of the 50th anniversary celebrations of the victorious war against Pakistan and is being celebrated as ‘Swarnim Vijay Varsh’. An alumnus of AFMC, Pune, Lt.Col Rao was commissioned into the Army Medical Corps in January 1970. He was posted as regimental medical officer, 8th Grenadiers during the war against Pakistan in the western sector. On the night of December 10, 1971, the battalion launched an attack and captured an enemy stronghold.