Serial No. Awards.
1. Bharat Ratna
2. Parama Vir Chakra.
3. Ashoka Chakra.
4. Padma Vibhushan.
5. Padma Bhushan.
6. Sarvottam Yudh Seva Medal.
7. Param Vishisht Seva Medal.
8. Maha Vir Chakra.
9. Kirti Chakra.
10. Padma Shri.
11. Sarvottam Jeevan Raksha Padak.
12. Uttam Yudh Seva Medal.
13. Ati Vishisht Seva Medal.
14. Vir Chakra.
15. Shaurya Chakra
16. Yudh Seva Medal
17. Sena Medal.
18. Nao Sena Medal.
19. Vayu Sena Medal.
20. Vishisht Seva Medal.
21. Uttam Jeevan Raksha Padak.
22. Wound Medal.
23. General Service Medal 1947 with clasps.
24. Samanya Seva medal 11965 with clasps.
25. Samar Seva Star 1965.
26. Poorvi Star.
27. Paschimi Star.
28. Raksha Medal 1965.
29. Sangram Medal.
30. Sainya Seva Medal with clasps.
31. Videsh Seva Medal with clasps.
32. Meritorious Service Medal.
33. Long Service & Good Conduct Medal.
34. Jeevan Raksha Padak.
35. Terriotorial Army Decoration.
36. Territorial Army Medal.
37. Indian Independence Medal 1947.
38. Independence Medal 1950.
39. 25th Independence Anniversary Medal.
40. Trinshat Varsha Dirgha Seva Medal.
41. Vinsha Varsh Dirgha Seva Medal
42. Nava Varsha Dirgha Seva Medal.
43. Unnat Raksha Suraksha Corps Medal.
44. Raksha Suraksha Corps Medal.
45. Commonwealth Awards.
46. Other Awards.
2645. Blank.
SECTION III – FOREIGN DECORATIONS
2646. Foreign Titles, Orders and Medals. (1) Article 18(2) of the Constitution lays down “no citizen of India shall accept any title from any foreign state”.
(2) Naval personnel shall not accept orders/decorations or awards of any kind from a Commonwealth or foreign country without the prior permission of the Government of India.
(3) Commonwealth and foreign orders/decorations/awards as well as the ribbons pertaining to them, which have been accepted with permission of the Government of India, shall not be worn in India except: -
(a) At ceremonials and other functions arranged either in honour of the Head of State or the Prime Minister or some other important dignitary of the country awarding the decoration during his visit to India.
(b) When the awardees are attached to the liaison staff of the foreign dignitary during such visits.
(4) Restrictions contained in sub-regulations (2) and (3) shall not apply to Commonwealth/foreign awards accepted by Naval personnel prior to January 26th, 1950.
(5) No person, who is not a citizen of India, shall, while he holds any office of profit or trust under the Navy, accept, without the consent of the President, any title from any foreign state.
(6) Hereditary titles and awards for acts of gallantry conferred on officers and sailors of Indian nationality prior to 15th August, 1947, may be referred to in official documents. All other titles and awards including awards for meritorious services, and awards in the various classes of orders of the British Empire whether for gallantry or otherwise, conferred prior to 15th August, 1947 on officers and sailors who are citizens of India shall not be referred to in official documents though these need not be surrendered.
For allowances, monetary rewards and ‘Inams’ admissible to the recipients of decorations and ‘Inams’ granted prior to 15th August 1947, see Pay and Allowances Regulations for the Navy.
CHAPTER 27 MESSING AND ACCOMODATION Section Regulations I. Messing – Officers 2701 – 2725 II. Cabins 2726 – 2727 III. Messing of Ship’s company 2728 – 2734 SECTION I – MESSING – OFFICERS
2701. Flag Officer’s Table. The table of Flag officer or Commodore shall be considered as the regulated place for the daily entertainment of the Captain of the Fleet, Captain of the Ship, Staff officer and such officers comprising the staff of the Flag officer or Commodore as he may think fit to receive, when he is actually resident on board.
(2) When the table of the Flag officer or Commodore is not kept on board, those officers must make the necessary arrangement of messing on their own account.
2702. Commanding Officer’s Table. With the exception of Flag Captains, Captains in command shall keep a separate table. Commanders, Lieutenant Commanders and Lieutenants in command of destroyers, frigates or larger ship shall keep a separate table. Commanders, Lieutenant Commanders and Lieutenants in command of other ships in which space and furniture perm kit of a mess for the Commanding officer, may keep a separate table.
2703. Wardroom Mess. (1) Officers shall mess in the wardroom mess except as otherwise provided for in regulations 27012702 and 2704.
(2) Officers taking passage or temporarily embarked shall be messed as shown in regulation 2724.
2704. Gunroom Mess. (1) Midshipmen and Cadets will mess in the Gunroom mess, however, in ships in which no Gunroom is maintained they shall mess at the Wardroom table.
(2) The Captain has discretion to allow any of the above officers to mess in the wardroom if age or other circumstances should make this desirable.
(3) Gunroom messes will not be maintained in ships where no Midshipmen or Cadets are borne. If an exception to this rule is considered desirable application shall be made to the Chief of the Naval Staff.
2705. Conduct of Officers Messes. The Captain shall take care that the officers’ messes are conducted in an orderly manner, and so economically as to be within the means of every member. If he should discover that excess, extravagance or irregularity has occurred, either in the case of any mess generally or in that of individual officers, he shall give such directions as he may think proper in order to prevent a repetition of it, and, if necessary, report the matter to the Administrative Authority.
2706. President of the Mess and Mess Committee. (1) Each mess shall be regulated by a Mess Committee comprising a minimum of three and a maximum of six members. The Commanding officer shall nominate the senior most officers borne for ship’s duties i.e., excluding those borne additional, regardless of the branch to which he belongs, as the President of the Wardroom mess. The President shall nominate the next senior living-inmember, regardless of the branch to which he belongs, as the Vice-President of the mess. In shore establishments, however, the Commanding officer, shall be the President of the wardroom and the senior most living-in-officer, irrespective of the branch, shall be the Vice- President, Other members of the committee shall be elected. Messes under the administrative control of INS India will be governed by orders issued by Naval Headquarters from time to time.
(2)(a) Duties. The internal economy of each mess shall be conducted by the Committee, but all irregularities shall be checked by the Senior Officer present, and if necessary, shall be reported to the Mess President or to the Captain. The Captain shall give such directions as may be necessary for conduct of the mess.
(b) Mess rules shall be framed for the operation of messes and shall be submitted to the Captain for approval.
2707. Officers to Join Mess. (1) All officers belonging to and doing duty in the ship shall join the mess to which by their rank they belong, and shall take their meals at the public table, unless prevented from doing so by illness.
(2) Supernumeraries. Supernumerary officers living on board who are doing duty, or awaiting or taking passage, shall join their proper mess.
(3) Army and Air Force officers, serving with the Navy may become members of the wardroom mess.
2708. Honorary Members of a Wardroom Mess. The Mess Committee with the consent of a general mess meeting and the approval of the Captain, may, invite any gentleman to become an honorary member of a wardroom mess for a term not exceeding one year. The honorary membership may be renewed in subsequent years. Such members shall not have a vote.
2709. Mess Subscription. A monthly mess subscription as prescribed by the Chief of the Naval Staff from time to time shall be charged to defray operational cost.
2710. Mess Traps for the use of officers of Flag rank, Commodores, Commanding officers. Wardroom and Gunroom messes shall be issued as per scale laid down in the Government orders/instructions issued from time to time.
2711. Advances for Messes. Advances for messes on first formation, or on fresh formation consequent to closing down, to assist the messes in laying in their first supplies, may be granted in accordance with pay & Allowance Regulations for the Navy.
2712. Mess Maintenance Allowance. For Mess Maintenance Allowance admissible to all officers’ messes in respect of officers, see Pay and Allowance Regulations for the Navy.
2713. For toasts in Naval Messes and at official dinners see Chapter II on Ceremonies & Distinctions in Regulations for the Navy Part III (Statutory).