# 15 Assam personnel get Independence Day gallantry and service medals 2026-08-15T17:47:22+00:00 | Governance | Indian Opinion Desk Corroboration: 2 independent outlets Fifteen personnel from Assam have been awarded gallantry and service medals on Independence Day, including one President’s Medal for Distinguished Service and 11 Medals for Meritorious Service. Inspector General of Police Devojyoti Mukherjee is the sole recipient of the President’s Medal from Assam this year, the Assam Tribune reports. The 11 Medal for Meritorious Service recipients include five superintendents of police and other ranks. Two fire services personnel and one home guard officer were also honoured. Across the Northeast, several security personnel were recognised: the only gallantry award went to Superintendent of Police Sudhanshu Dhama in Arunachal Pradesh, while Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland, Meghalaya, Tripura, and Sikkim also received medals. Separately, The Hindu reports that in Andhra Pradesh, Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu presented President’s Medals to Superintendent Chennupati Bhadraiah and Gopu Rajeev Kumar for Independence Day 2025. For Independence Day 2026, 27 officers across police, fire, and correctional services have been selected for gallantry and service awards. ## Coverage - assamtribune.com - thehindu.com This story was synthesised by AI from the 2 sources linked above. Updated: this story now draws on 2 sources. Last updated 2026-09-27T06:16:45+00:00. Tags: Assam, Assam Police, Devojyoti Mukherjee, Independence Day, Northeast India, President's Medal for Distinguished Service Canonical: https://indianopinion.org/15-assam-personnel-get-gallantry-service-medals-on-i-day/ License: Summary and commentary (c) Indian Opinion, reusable with attribution. Facts belong to the linked sources. Cite: https://indianopinion.org/15-assam-personnel-get-gallantry-service-medals-on-i-day/#story-in-brief Review state: restored archive article, accurate at time of publication, not offered to search indexes. How this brief was made: an AI model read the reports linked above and wrote this summary and analysis, which were published automatically. Published briefs are sampled every hour by an automated quality check; the editor verifies its findings and approves corrections, and corrected briefs carry a dated correction line. Stance labels are editorial classifications of how each outlet framed this story, assigned by the same model, not ratings of the outlets. We do no original reporting. Methodology: https://indianopinion.org/ai-use-policy/