India: Samanya Seva Medal 1985. With Hindi language clasp for 'Mizoram' (3288988 Vpr Zuber RVC)

The recipient served with the Remount Veterinary Corps of the Indian Army

Presumably an award associated with Tracker Dogs units used in counter-insurgency roles in Mizoram

The clasp 'Mizoram' was instituted on 7 July 1980, for specified active service in the Mizo Hills, are of Assam. The general qualifying criteria for award of this emdal and clasp was deployment in the qualifying area for an aggregate of 180 days service. Qualifying criteria could be shorter, for those; wounded in action, decorated for gallantry, and those who were aircrew

The area of operations - the Mizo Hills - was re-styled 'Mizoram' in 1973, when it became a 'Union Territory'. When the insurgency in Mizoram was quelled, the region became the 28th federal state of India, when it became 'Mizoram State'. Mizoram borders Burma and Bangladesh

Remount and Veterinary Corps: The corps was initially raised in Bengal in 1779 as the 'Stud Department'. The Army Veterinary Corps was officially established on 14 December 1920. The partition in 1947 led to the division of the assets of the Veterinary and Military Farms corporations in a 2:1 ratio for the Indian and Pakistani armies. The combined Remount, Veterinary and Farms Corps of the Indian Army, separated as independent corps in May 1960

Scarce seen on market named to the Remount Veterinary Corps

Condition: VF

Code: 23870