In one of the most extraordinary displays of valour during Operation Sindoor, 19 Personnel of the Central Industrial Security Force turned a rain of Pakistani artillery shells into a shield of life, successfully evacuating 250 terrified civilians—including women and children—from the heavily targeted Uri Hydroelectric Power Project located perilously close to the Line of Control in May 2025.

As cross-border shelling intensified and mortar rounds exploded mere metres from residential quarters and critical infrastructure, the CISF team led by Commandant Ravi Yadav refused to abandon their posts, conducting real-time threat assessments while simultaneously guiding panic-stricken families of National Hydroelectric Power Corporation staff to fortified bunkers under direct enemy fire.

With hostile drones circling overhead and communication towers at risk, the personnel maintained unbroken contact through POLNET and satellite systems, neutralised incoming drone threats, reinforced makeshift shelters with whatever material was available, and carried the elderly and injured on their backs across debris-strewn paths, ensuring not a single civilian life was lost despite the relentless bombardment.

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For their indomitable courage and selfless devotion that saved 250 innocent lives while protecting a strategic national asset, the Director General of CISF conferred the prestigious DG’s Disc upon the entire 19-member team in a solemn ceremony, recognising their actions as the finest embodiment of the force’s motto: “Protection & Security in the face of mortal danger”.

The honoured warriors include Commandant Ravi Yadav, Deputy Commandant Manohar Singh, Assistant Commandants Subhash Kumar and Deepak Kumar Jha, Inspectors, Sub-Inspectors, Assistant Sub-Inspectors, Head Constables, and Constables—nineteen names now etched in the annals of India’s security forces as the unbreakable guardians who stood between a ruthless enemy barrage and hundreds of defenceless civilians during one of the fiercest escalations along the LoC.

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