Orders, decorations, and medals of Vishwamitra

The Orders, decorations, and medals of Vishwamitra covers those decorations and medals awarded by the Rashtradhyaksh in name of the state. The Vishwamitran honours system goes back to 2015 with the establishment of the Order of the Jewels.

The Vishwamitran honours system is a means of rewarding individuals' personal bravery, achievement or service to the State and consists of three types of award: orders and decorations, such as titles and order, in recognition to merit in terms of deeds, achievements and services to the country.

As the head of state, the Rashtradhyaksh remains the fons honorum.

Current orders

Federal orders

Name	Ranks	Abbrv.	Ribbon	Established	Description
The Most Exalted Royal Family Order of Vishwamitra	Royal Knight/Lady with Collar	KV/LV		3 July 2020	Highest decoration in State of Vishwamitra, conferred only upon state royalties, and foreign monarchs only.
	Royal Knight/Lady
	Stranger Knight/Lady	SKV/SLV
The Most Honourable Order of the Lotus	Grand Collar	GColL		3 July 2020	Second highest decoration in State of Vishwamitra, conferred upon individuals for exceptional services to the State and its people. Conferred in three grades, with the top two grades being restricted for heads of state and some heads of government.
	Grand Cross	GCL
	Commander	ComL
The Most Auspicious Order of the Sanghamitra	Knight	KOS		18 October 2020	Conferred only upon foreign heads of state for acts and services of friendship towards the nation. It is also considered as a de facto religious decoration, but includes people of all religious beliefs.
	Dame	DOS
The Most Gallant Order of Mahabali Karthika Padaka	Grand Commander	GCKP		23 January 2021	Conferred upon citizens, foreign heads of state and military officers for excellent and gallantry military services in the interest of enhancing national prestige and military.
	Commander First Class	C1KP
	Commander Second Class	C2KP
	Commander	CKP
	Member	MKP
The Most Illustrious Royal Order of the Crown of Vishwamitra	Knight/Dame Grand Cordon	GCC		27 August 2020	Conferred upon individuals in order to recognize their services rendered for the welfare and development of the nation and the people and promoting their interests. The order is mostly conferred on members of the royal families, foreign royalties, foreign heads of state and government, privy councillors, members of the government and the members of the diplomatic corps and the military.
	Knight/Dame Grand Cross	KGC/DGC
	Grand Commander	GOC
	Commander	COC
The Most Excellent Order of the Vishwamitra	Knight/Dame Grand Cordon	KGV/DGV		3 July 2020	Conferred upon individuals for their outstanding services to the nation and its people. The first grade is reserved for state royalties, former Prime Ministers, former heads of state; whereas the second grade is reserved for the Prime Minister, governors of territories, members of the council of ministers, former cabinet ministers, mayors, ambassadors.
	Knight/Dame Grand Cross	GCV
	Honorary Knight/Dame Grand Cross				Conferred only upon foreign individuals for their outstanding services to the nation.
The Order of Diplomatic Service Merit	Member Special Class	MDS		12 December 2020	Conferred upon foreign heads of state, heads of government, diplomats and representatives for outstanding meritorious services in the interest of enhancing national prestige and promoting amity with allies.
	Member First Class	M1DS
	Member Second Class	M2DS
The Most Noble Order of the First Ladies	Royal Lady	LFL		12 August 2020	State decoration restricted only for females, conferred for their meritorious services to the state, its people and the community.
	Lady Companion
The Most Distinguished Order for Merit and Public Service	Companion	CMP		6 January 2021	Conferred upon both state and foreign individuals for their merit in fields of culture, art, technology, vexillology, heraldry and bravery that benefit the society and the nation.

Provincial orders

Purvanchal

Name	Ranks	Abbrv.	Ribbon	Established	Description
The Most Noble Royal Family Order of Purvanchal	Grand Knight/Dame	GKOP		7 September 2020	Highest chivalric and dynastic order of the House of Roy and Purvanchal. Constituted by Rajpramukh Dhrubajyoti Roy on 7 September 2020 in order to confer upon state and foreign royalties for extraordinary services to the state and the people.
	Grand Commander	GCOP
The Most Honourable Order of the Territorial Crown of Purvanchal	Grand Commander	GCTC		7 September 2020	Founded by Rajpramukh Dhrubajyoti Roy; conferred for services to the State and the people. Established as a single grade order, later expanded with the introduction of three other grades.
	Knight/Dame Commander	KCTC/DCTC
	Commander	CTC
	Member	MTC

Kamrupa

Name	Ranks	Abbrv.	Ribbon	Established	Description
The Most Esteemed Order of the Royal Family of Kamrupa	Knight/Dame	KRFK/DRFK		22 March 2021	Constituted by the Rajpramukh of Kamrupa to confer upon royalties for their extraordinary contributions to the nation.
	Member	MFK
The Premier and Exalted Order of Kamrupa	Commander Grand Cross	CGOK		22 February 2021	Constituted by the Rajpramukh of Kamrupa to confer upon individuals for their outstanding and meritorious contributions for the welfare of the State and Kamrupa.
	Commander Grand Knight/Dame	CKOK
	Commander	COK
The Most Excellent Order of the State of Kamrupa	Knight/Dame Grand Cross	KGSK		18 July 2020	Constituted by Rajpramukh Anirban Phatowali to confer upon individuals for their services. Established as a single grade order, later expanded to other grades.
	Knight/Dame Commander	KCSK
	Commander	CSK
	Member	MSK

Order of Precendence

Main article: List of post-nominal letters (Vishwamitra)

Ribbon	Honour	Post-nominal letters
	Royal Knight/Lady with Collar of the Most Exalted Royal Family Order of Vishwamitra	KV
	Royal Knight/Lady of the Most Exalted Royal Family Order of Vishwamitra
	Stranger Knight/Lady of the Most Exalted Royal Family Order of Vishwamitra
	Grand Collar of the Most Honourable Order of the Lotus	GColL
	Knight of the Most Auspicious Order of the Sanghamitra	KOS
	Dame of the Most Auspicious Order of the Sanghamitra	DOS
	Grand Commander of the Most Gallant Order of Mahabali Karthika Padaka	GCKP
	Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Lotus	GCL
	Knight Grand Cordon of the Most Illustrious Royal Order of the Crown of Vishwamitra	GCC
	Dame Grand Cordon of the Most Illustrious Royal Order of the Crown of Vishwamitra
	Knight Grand Cordon of the Most Excellent Order of the Vishwamitra	KGV
	Dame Grand Cordon of the Most Excellent Order of the Vishwamitra
	Member Special Class of the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit	MDS
	Commander First Class of the Most Gallant Order of Mahabali Karthika Padaka	C1KP
	Knight Grand Cross of the Most Illustrious Royal Order of the Crown of Vishwamitra	KGC
	Dame Grand Cross of the Most Illustrious Royal Order of the Crown of Vishwamitra	DGC
	Member First Class of the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit	M1DS
	Knight Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the Vishwamitra	GCV
	Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the Vishwamitra
	Honorary Knight/Dame Grand Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the Vishwamitra
	Royal Lady of the Most Noble Order of the First Ladies	LFL
	Lady Companion of the Most Noble Order of the First Ladies
	Commander Second Class of the Most Gallant Order of Mahabali Karthika Padaka	C2KP
	Grand Commander of the Most Illustrious Royal Order of the Crown of Vishwamitra	GOC
	Member Second Class of the Order of Diplomatic Service Merit	M2DS
	Companion of the Most Distinguished Order for Merit and Public Service	CMP
	Commander of the Most Gallant Order of Mahabali Karthika Padaka	CKP
	Commander of the Most Illustrious Royal Order of the Crown of Vishwamitra	COC
	Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Lotus	ComL
	Member of the Most Gallant Order of Mahabali Karthika Padaka	MKP

Decorations

Name	Ribbon	Established	Description
Royal Vishwamitran Chain		13 March 2021	Conferred as a personal decoration of the Monarch of Vishwamitra. Awarded for the highest deeds of contributions to the nation, government and people. Limited to only ten living recipients.

Medals

Name	Ribbon	Established	Description
National Service Medal		8 April 2021	Conferred to recognise the outstanding contributions, services, friendship with the State of Vishwamitra. Granted once a year, on the eve of National Day.
Commemorative Medal of the 20th Birthday of the First Prime Minister		11 November 2020	Constituted by the Rashtradhyaksh to commemorate the 20th Birthday of Her Royal Highness Princess Arnisha, the first Prime Minister of Vishwamitra and to respect her contributions and services to the foundation of the nation.

Former awards

Former orders

Federal

Name	Ranks	Abbrv.	Ribbon	Established	Dissolved	Description
The Most Noble and Most Auspicious Order of the Commonwealth	Knight/Dame	KC		3 August 2019	3 July 2020	Highest decoration in Commonwealth of Friends Society, conferred upon both citizens and foreign nationals.
	Officer	OC
The Order of Service Merit	Member	OSM		30 December 2019	3 July 2020	Conferred for services benefitting the nation and its people; replaced the former National Service Medal.
The Friends Society Ratna	Recipient	FSR		15 April 2015	3 July 2020	Highest decoration in Friends Society, conferred exclusively upon citizens and office-holders of the erstwhile Friends Society.
The Padma Ratna	Recipient	PR
The Bhushan Ratna		BR
The Shri Ratna		SR

Provincial and territorial

Name	Ranks	Abbrv.	Ribbon	Established	Dissolved	Description
Province of Purvanchal
The Most Exalted Order of the Crown of Dhrubajyoti	Grand Collar	GColCD		18 June 2020	7 September 2020	Founded by the Rajpramukh of Purvanchal upon the suggestion of his Kamrupan counterpart in order to confer upon individuals for their outstanding services to Purvanchal. Conferred only upon two individuals; replaced by the Royal Family Order of Purvanchal on 7 September 2020.
	Grand Cross	GCCD
Special Administrative Region of Chandril
The Order of Chandril	Knight/Lady	KOC		30 November 2020	6 February 2021	Founded by the Sovereign on the advice of the Administrator; conferred for extraordinary services to the people and the region. Dissolved following the expulsion of Chandril from the federation.

Former commemorative medals

Name	Ribbon	First conferred	Last conferred	Description
National Service Medal		2016	2018	Conferred for services benefitting the nation and its people.
Hero of the Nation Medal		30 April 2020		Conferred only upon three individuals who have served as the National Leaders of the nation, viz. Arnisha Phatowali, Dhrubajyoti Roy and Tanishkaa Patranabish respectively for their extraordinary and conspicuous services to the nation, and also for the national building process.
Medal "For Services to National Leader II"		30 April 2020		Constituted by the outgoing administration of President Dhrubajyoti Roy to confer upon individuals for services to the National Leader during his tenure in office between 2010 and 2020.
Investiture Medal of National Leader III		3 May 2020		Constituted by the outgoing administration of President Dhrubajyoti Roy to confer upon individuals for services to the nation on the occasion of the accession of Tanishkaa Patranabish as the President and Third National Leader of the nation.

See also

• List of honours of Vishwamitra awarded to heads of state and royalty
• List of honours received by Vishwamitran royalties by country
• List of titles and honours of Dhrubajyoti Roy of Vishwamitra
• List of titles and honours of Tanishkaa Patranabish of Vishwamitra