Mohali, Dec. 14 -- Five alumni of the Maharaja Ranjit Singh Armed Forces Preparatory Institute (MRSAFPI), Mohali, were commissioned as officers in the Indian Army and the Indian Air Force on Saturday.

Four cadets received commissions in the Indian Army during the Passing Out Parade of the 157th Regular Course at the Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun. The Chief of the Army Staff, General Upendra Dwivedi, reviewed the parade.

The officers commissioned into the army include Gurkirat Singh of Amritsar, son of a retired Corps of Engineers soldier; Barjinder Singh of Gurdaspur, whose parents serve as a school principal and a PSPCL superintendent, Sukhdev Singh Gill of Gurdaspur, son of a retired PSPCL junior engineer, and Vinayak Sharma...