The President, Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil, the Vice President, Shri Mohd. Hamid Ansari, the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, the Defence Minister, Shri A. K. Antony and the Minister of State for Defence, Dr. M.M. Pallam Raju with awardees, at the Defence investiture ceremony, at Rashtrapati Bhavan, in New Delhi on March 14, 2012.