Awards
Sainya Seva MedalPeriod : 26 January 1960Awarded in recognition of non-operational services under conditions of special hardship and severe climate. While all bars observed have been produced in Hindi rather than English, they will frequently be referred to by their English names. At the request of friends, and since the bars are in Hindi and may therefore present identification problems, I have, where possible, attached close-up images of the bars. I hope this will aid in their identification. Established: 26 January 1960, by the President of India (with effect from 15 August 1947). Revised 17 June 1960. Obverse: Circular 36-mm copper-nickel, an image of the Nanda Devi mountain peak with a bamboo stand in the foreground. Suspended by a straight-bar suspender. The medal is normally named on the edge. Reverse: The gate to a medieval fort (actually the gate at Purana Quila in New Delhi?). Above, the Hindi legend "Sainya Seva Medal". Ribbon: 32 mm, orange-saffron, with two 1-mm stripes, white and green. Orange 10 mm, white 1 mm, orange 10 mm, green 1 mm, orange 10 mm. As it has been so common and so widely produced, there is some variability of the precise shades of the colors in this ribbon. These color variations have no significance (as some have stated). Outline:
Jammu and Kashmir(a) for an aggregate of one year of service in Jammu and Kashmir after 27 October 1947, service which qualified for the appropriate bar to the 1947 General Service Medal of for the "Himalaya" bar to the Sainya Seva Medal will not be counted; (b) air force personnel who have carried out a minimum of ten sorties or forty hours of flying after 27 October 1947, with the same limits to overlapping service applying here as well - between the two words on the bar is a depiction of a chinar leaf | Other CategoriesSainya Seva MedalMain CategoriesParam Vir ChakraAshoka Chakra Maha Vir Chakra Kirti Chakra Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak Ati Vishisht Seva Medal Vir Chakra Shaurya Chakra President's Police and Fire Services Medal for Gallantry Sena Medal |