Graduate of Bengaluru school wins President's gold medal at Indian Military Academy

Graduate of Bangalore school wins President’s gold medal at Indian Military Academy

Georgians June 16, 2021 Rashtriya Military School Leave a comment 1,265 Views

A graduate of Rashtriya Military School, Bangalore, has been awarded the coveted President’s Gold Medal during the passing-out parade at the Indian Military Academy (IMA) held last week.

Cadet (now Lieutenant) Deepak Singh, a 2017 graduate of the Rashtriya Military School, was appointed to lead the 148th Passing-out Parade (POP) at the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun on June 12 as parade commander. “He was awarded the much-coveted President’s Gold Medal for topping the order of merit in the academy,” the school said in a statement.

Laurels for 5 alumni

Five other alumni of the school also participated in the parade and were duly commissioned as officers in the Indian Army.

“Aman Singh, Deepak Singh, Malay Chandan, Rohit Kumar, Ujjwal Sarkar and Avinash Chaubey had passed out of the school in 2017 to join the National Defence Academy, Pune,” according to the school.

Rashtriya Military School Bangalore (Rashtriya Military School Bangalore or King George Royal Indian Military College) is a military boarding school in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. It was established on 1 August 1946 and is one of the only five RMS (Rashtriya Military School which were formerly called Royal Indian Military Schools) of its kind in India; the other four being Chail Military School established in 1922, Ajmer Military School in 1930, Belgaum Military School in 1945, and Dholpur Military School in 1962. The cadets enrolled in these schools are known as Georgians, after their founder father King George V.