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Maj Gen TK Kaul: Proud recipient of the VSM

The Vishisht Seva Medal (VSM) is a military award for' distinguished service of a high order', and is open to all ranks of officers of the Army, Navy and Air Force.

Maj Gen TK Kaul got the distinction of being personally awarded with this peace time medal by the Honorable President of India on the Republic Day.

The VSM was instituted in 1960 as VSM Class III before it was renamed in 1967. This medal received by Maj Gen TK Kaul is made of bronze, is circular in shape, 35 mm in diameter, and has a five-pointed star embossed on its obverse. On its reverse are the State Emblem and the inscription embossed along the upper rim.

The medal suspends from a straight horizontal bar. The gold colored ribbon attached to it has three dark blue stripes which run down, dividing it into four segments.

The VSM can also be granted posthumously, and subsequent awards are represented by a bar worn on the ribbon. The award carries with it the right to use ‘V.S.M.’ as designator letters to one’s name. Maj Gen Tk Kaul is endowed not just with these hallowed medals of Honor, but also with the courage and grit to call for peace between the two warring nations of Pakistan and India.

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Maj Gen TK Kaul may have retired from the defence services, but certainly not from his mission of striving to strike the chord of peace between India and Pakistan. Through his relentless support and untiring contribution to the India Pakistan Soldiers Initiative for Peace (IPSI), Gen T Kaul has initiated several events and rounds of talk that have kept the flame of hope shining as brightly as ever.