Top: Capture of Jinji fort (near Madras). Bottom: Shivaji is examining the plans brought by an architect for rebuilding the fort and the buildings inside it (May 1677)
~ Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj ~
FACT Shivaji Award of Courage
On 26th June 1987, Param Veer Chakra Awardee, Naib Subedar Bana Singh led his platoon on the Siachen glacier, at a height of nearly 5000 metres, against a Pakistani post which was threatening Indian security. The post was virtually an impregnable glacier fortress with ice walls on all sides. Lobbing hand-grenades, charging with a bayonet and moving from trench to trench, he cleared the post of all intruders. For this act of valor N. Sub. Bana Singh received from the hands of H.H. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar the 2008 FACT Shivaji Award of Courage - 12th March, 2008, Mumbai.