Colonel Neelakantan Jayachandran Nair, fondly known as “NJ,” was born on February 17, 1951, in Ernakulam, a vibrant city in the state of Kerala, which was part of the erstwhile Travancore-Cochin region at the time. He was born into a distinguished family; his father, Shri
Hav Ram Pratap Singh Yadav hailed from Ujoli village of Kotkasim tehsil in the Alwar district of Rajasthan. Son of an Army veteran Hony Capt Shiv Chand Yadav and Smt Shanti Devi, he had the inclination to join the armed forces since his younger days
Naik Amit Sharma hailed from Dehradun district of Uttarakhand. Like many young people in Uttarakhand-the land of warriors, Naik Amit Sharma too wished to don the Army uniform right from his childhood days. Following his dream, he eventually joined the Army after completing his school