Highest gallantry award winner breaches rank ceiling
Now, for the first time ever, a rookie officer who won such an award three decades ago has breached this inexplicable glass ceiling. Ashoka Chakra awardee Brigadier Cyrus Addie Pithawalla was on Wednesday approved for the next rank of a Major-General and posted as the general-officer-commanding of the Andhra Sub-Area.
Brig Pithawalla is among the only four such awardees — two Ashoka Chakra and two PVC – currently serving in the Army. While one is a major, the other two are from the “other ranks”. The late Hoshiar Singh, awarded the PVC during the 1971 war, had retired as a Colonel.
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