Conditions of Eligibility and Eligible Categories

Awarded to Junior Commissioned Officers, Non-Commissioned Officer and Other Ranks of the Territorial Army for 12 years efficient service. The qualifying service shall be reckoned in accordance with the conditions mentioned below: -

Two-fold qualifying service

(a)   The period of service rendered in a theatre of war by a member of the late Indian Territorial Force or the late Auxiliary Force (India) during the period 3 Sep 39 to 2 Sep 45.

(b)   Embodied service in India by a member of late Indian Territorial Force or the late Auxiliary Force (India) during the period 3 Sep 39 to 2 Sep 45.

(c)   Embodied service in the Territorial Army during an emergency declared by Government.

Single qualifying service

(a)   Service in the Territorial Army.

(b)   Service in the late Indian Territorial Force or on the active list of the late Auxiliary Force (India) during the period 3 Sep 39 to 2 Sep 45.

(c)   Service in the Army, the Navy and the Air Force during the period 3 Sep 39 to 2 Sep 45.

(d)   Service in the Army, the Navy and the Air Force during an emergency declared by Government.

A clasp to be worn on the ribbon of the medal, shall be awarded to those who having been awarded the medal complete a total of 18 years efficient service and a further clasp shall be awarded after completing 24 years service. When the ribbon is worn without the medal, the grant of clasps shall be denoted by the wearing on the ribbon of small Silver rosette, one or more according to the number of clasps awarded.

No period of service in the force which has previously been counted for any Long Service, Good Conduct or Efficiency Medal/Clasp shall be reckoned as qualifying service for the Territorial Army Medal.

Service requisite to qualify for the medal shall not necessarily be continuous service.

Service requisite to qualify for the medal shall not necessarily be continuous service.

The recipient of any Long Service, Good Conduct or Efficiency medal and Clasps shall be eligible to receive the Territorial Army Medal and clasps and to wear them, provided that he has completed the full periods of qualifying service for such awards and that no qualifying service towards one award is permitted to count towards the other.

Design of the Medal and Ribbon

Medal - Oval in shape, made of Silver, with a fixed fitting for the ribbon in the form of two leaves and a scroll on which shall be embossed the word “TERRITORIAL’. On the obverse, it shall have embossed the State Emblem and on the reverse the inscription----------------------. The award of a clasp to the medal shall be denoted by a bar with the ASHOKA CHAKRA embossed in the Centre to be worn on the ribbon of the medal.

Ribbon – Dark blue silk, 30175 centimeters in width. It shall be divided into six equal stripes by five vertical lines. The central vertical line shall be orange in colour and the remaining four lines shall be white.