Captain Vikram Batra, was an Indian Army officer. He was posthumously awarded the Param Vir Chakra, India’s highest military decoration, for his actions during the Kargil War. On 7 July 1999, Batra was killed while fighting Pakistani troops at Point 4875 in the Kargil district of erstwhile Jammu and Kashmir.
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Bust of Captain Vikram Batra at the National War Memorial, Pune![The town of Dras, the second coldest inhabited place in the world after Siberia, where temperatures fall as low as −60 degrees Celsius in winter.[30][31]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3d/Drass_and_Tololing_Range.jpg/500px-Drass_and_Tololing_Range.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
The town of Dras, the second coldest inhabited place in the world after Siberia, where temperatures fall as low as −60 degrees Celsius in winter.[30][31]
Kargil War Memorial with Tololing Ranges in the background at Dras
President K. R. Narayanan presenting the Param Vir Chakra (posthumous) to the father of Captain Vikram Batra, 13 Jammu and Kashmir Rifles.
Vikram Batra's statue at Param Yodha Sthal, National War Memorial, New Delhi
A memorial for war veterans including Batra at his alma mater DAV College, Chandigarh.Awards 1
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Lived 1974 to 1999 · aged 24
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