Galantry Award Winner (Vikram Batra )

Vikram Batra PVC (9 September 1974 – 7 July 1999) was an officer of the Indian
Army. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, the highest Indian
military decoration, for his actions during the Kargil War; on 7 July 1999, Batra was
killed while fighting Pakistani troops around Area Ledge, Point 4875, in the Kargil
district of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir.

Early life and education

Batra was born on 9 September 1974, in a small town in Palampur, Himachal
Pradesh. He was the third child of Girdhari Lal Batra, a government school principal,
and Kamal Kanta Batra, a school teacher. He was the eldest of twin sons, and was
born fourteen minutes before his brother, named Vishal. The twins were nicknamed:
'Luv' (Vikram) and 'Kush' (Vishal), after the twin sons of the Hindu deity Rama, by
their mother who was a professed devotee of Rama.[1] He had two sisters: Seema
and Nutan.[2] As a young child, Batra received his primary education under the
tutelage of his mother.[3][4][a] He then attended the D.A.V. Public School in Palampur,
where he studied up to middle standard.[3] He received his senior secondary
education at Central School, Palampur.[3][4]