Background

Rank: Naib Subedar
Regiment: 16 Bihar

Youngest of four brothers, 43-year-old Nandu Ram had joined the 16 Bihar Regiment of the Indian Army in 1996. Resident of Champauda village in Mayurbhanj district of Odisha,
he is survived by his wife and three daughters. Ram was the only earning member in his family.

He had last visited his family in January, on a 45-day leave, and had made a final phone call to his wife on 7 June, a week before the Galwan Valley clash.