Dag Hammarskjold Medal : Naik Dhananjay Kumar Singh
Naik Dhananjay Kumar Singh will be honoured posthumously with the Dag Hammarskjold medal during a solemn ceremony when the UN commemorates the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers.
- Dag Hammarskjold medal was established in 1997 and it is the highest honour awarded to UN peacekeepers.
- It is a posthumous award given to members of peacekeeping operations who lost their lives during service with a peacekeeping operation under the operational control and authority of the United Nations.
- Each year on Peacekeeper’s Day, this medal is awarded to any Member State who has lost one or more military or police peacekeepers at a ceremony at United Nation’s headquarters.
- It is named after the second Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold.
