Punjab has named a 200-foot-wide road in New Chandigarh 'Shaheed Colonel Manpreet Singh Marg' and a park in Sector 5-A after the same officer.
The road, earlier designated HR-2, runs from Mullanpur Chowk to the T-Point in New Chandigarh.
Colonel Manpreet Singh commanded 19 Rashtriya Rifles and was killed on 13 September 2023 during an anti-terrorist operation at Gadole in the Kokernag area of Anantnag district, Jammu and Kashmir.
He was awarded the Kirti Chakra, India's second-highest peacetime gallantry award, posthumously on Independence Day 2024.
Punjab gives ₹1 crore in financial assistance to the families of armed forces, paramilitary, police personnel and Agniveers who attain martyrdom.
Manpreet Singh is born in village Bharojian, Punjab
He is commissioned as an officer in the Indian Army
As Commanding Officer of 19 Rashtriya Rifles he is killed at Gadole in the Kokernag area of Anantnag district
He is awarded the Kirti Chakra posthumously
Punjab names a road and a park in New Chandigarh after him
A counter-insurgency force of the Indian Army, raised in 1990 and deployed mainly in Jammu and Kashmir. It is manned by soldiers deputed from other units of the Army rather than recruited separately, and is often described as the largest dedicated counter-insurgency force in the world.
New Chandigarh is a planned township in Punjab's Sahibzada Ajit Singh Nagar (Mohali) district, developed around the Mullanpur region on the north-western edge of Chandigarh. Anantnag district, where the officer was killed, lies in the south of the Kashmir Valley; Kokernag is a hill area within it.
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India's second-highest peacetime gallantry award, given for gallantry otherwise than in the face of the enemy; instituted in 1952 and renamed in 1967.
A counter-insurgency force of the Indian Army raised in 1990, manned by soldiers deputed from other Army units and deployed largely in Jammu and Kashmir.