Long Service good Conduct Medal
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Conditions of Eligibility and Eligible
Categories
Awarded on Republic & Independence Day by the respective Chiefs of
Staff to such selected individuals from the following categories of
personnel as may have rendered a minimum of 15 years combatant or
non-combatant service in the Army or in the Navy or Air Force,
distinguished throughout by highly good conduct: -
Army - Non-commissioned officers and other ranks below the
rank of Dafadar /Havildar, including enrolled non-combatants.
Navy - Continuous Service Ratings of the rank of Petty
Officer and below, excluding ordinary seamen and their equivalent in
other branches.
Air Force - Corporals and Aircraftsmen.
For the purpose of the award, only such service as counts for
pension and gratuity is taken into consideration.
* Total number of awards to be made in each service is fixed by the
Government from time to time.
Design of the Medal and Ribbon
Medal – Circular in shape, 1.42 inches in diameter and made
of standard silver. It shall have embossed on the obverse the State
Emblem seven-eighth inches in height with the
motto--------------------and decorative lotus buds along the
periphery. On the reverse it shall have the inscriptions” FOR LONG
SERVICE AND GOOD CONDUCT “ and
---------------------------------------within a lotus wreath. The
medal shall have a scroll pattern swivel fitting one and five
sixteenth inches in width for the ribband.
Ribbon – Silk riband one and a quarter inches in width.
Five-seventh of an inch of the centre of the riband is brown, edged
with vertical strips of light blue, dark blue and red each
one-sixteenth of an inch in width and broader white stripes of twice
that width on the outer edges.
Monetary Benefits
A gratuity of Rs. 100/-
Note - The Long Service and Good Conduct Medal without
gratuity is abolished with immediate effect.
* 4 for 800men on the authorized establishment of the respective
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