Laxminarayan Ramdas: Difference between revisions

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Ramdas was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 1 September 1953,<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch) |page=186  |date=24 September 1953 |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> with seniority as a sub-lieutenant from the same date.<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch) |page=186  |date=24 September 1955 |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> He was promoted to lieutenant on 16 August 1955,<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch) |page=47  |date=23 February 1957 |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> and to lieutenant-commander on 16 August 1963.<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch) |page=351  |date=12 October 1963 |url=http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1963/O-1841-1963-0041-83554.pdf |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> He was trained as a [[communication]] specialist in the [[Royal Naval Staff College]] in the United Kingdom. Promoted [[Commander]] on 30 June 1969,<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch) |page=88  |date=17 January 1970 |url=http://egazette.nic.in/WriteReadData/1970/O-1389-1970-0003-62646.pdf |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> he went on to establish and head the Naval Academy in [[Kochi]], [[Kerala]], he distinguished himself for which he was awarded [[Vishisht Seva Medal]].

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During the operations against Pakistan in December 1971, Commander Laxminarayan Ramdas was the commanding officer of an Indian naval unit of Eastern Fleet. Throughout the period of operations, he was called upon to operate within enemy waters, where there was constant danger to his ship from enemy mines and submarines. Undeterred, he carried out continuous probes into the enemy defended harbours in Bangladesh and inflicted heavy damage on the enemy. During one of the sorties, an enemy submarine wag sighted close to his ship. He attacked the submarine repeatedly, which was presumably destroyed.

Ramdas was promoted [[Vice admiral (India)|Vice Admiral]] on 1 April 1985 and appointed Controller of Warship Production & Acquisition (CWP&A).<ref>{{cite news |title=Part I-Section 4: Ministry of Defence (Navy Branch) |page=1326  |date=21 September 1985 |publisher=The Gazette of India}}</ref> On 20 February 1986, he took over as [[Deputy Chief of Naval Staff (India)|Deputy Chief of Naval Staff]] (DNCS). After an eighteen month stint as DCNS, Ramdas was appointed [[Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Naval Command]]. He took command from Vice Admiral [[Gulab Mohanlal Hiranandani]] at Kochi. In February 1989, he moved to Vizag as the [[Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command]]. On 26 January 1989, he was awarded the [[Param Vishisht Seva Medal]].<ref name="PVSM">{{cite web |title=GALLANTRY AND DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARDS FOR DEFENCE PERSONNEL |url=https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1988-JAN-JUNE-DEFENCE%20I/PDF/DEF-1988-01-23_032.pdf |website=archive.pib.gov.in |date=23 January 1988|access-date=11 January 2022}}</ref> He was at the helm of the Eastern Naval Command for about twenty months.<ref name="new_Vice_Chief_Navy">{{cite web|title=New Vice Chief of Navy, Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Naval Command and Deputy Chief of Navy Announced|url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1987-JULY-DEC-DEFENCE-/PDF/DEF-1987-11-28_153.pdf|website=Press Information Bureau of India - Archive|date=28 November 1987|access-date=29 February 2020}}</ref>

Ramdas was appointed the next [[Chief of the Naval Staff (India)|Chief of the Naval Staff]], succeeding Admiral [[Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni]]. He took over as CNS on 30 November 1990.<ref name="PIB - CNS">{{cite web |title=ADMIRAL L RAMDAS TAKES OVER AS CHIEF OF NAVAL STAFF |url=https://archive.pib.gov.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1990-JULY-DEC-DEFENCE-II/PDF/DEF-1990-11-30_158.pdf |website=archive.pib.gov.in |date=30 November 1990|access-date=11 January 2022}}</ref> On 30 June 1993, with [[General (India)|General]] [[Sunith Francis Rodrigues]] supperannuating, he took over as [[Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee]].<ref>{{cite web |title=ADMIRAL L RAMDAS TAKES OVER AS CHAIRMAN CHIEFS OF STAFF COMMITTEE |url=http://pibarchive.nic.in/archive/ArchiveSecondPhase/DEFENCE/1993-JAN-DEC-DEFENCE/PDF/DEF-1993-06-29_167.pdf}}</ref>  

The couple opposed the establishment of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu. For his efforts to demilitarise and denuclearize [[South Asia]], and his efforts to prevent the building of the Kudankulam reactor, Ramdas was awarded the [[Ramon Magsaysay Award]] for peace in 2004.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rmaf.org.ph/Awardees/Citation/CitationRamdasLax.htm|title=Citation for Laxminarayan Ramdas and Ibn Abdur Rehman|date=31 August 2004|publisher=Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation|access-date=22 January 2010}}</ref>

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