Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar
Saved his father from a crocodile attack at the Chambal river near Bah, Agra; received the PMRBP 2025 (Bravery).
2025-12-26 · Supporting source ↗
Rescue · INDIA
Ajay Raj
Saved his father from a crocodile attack at the Chambal river near Bah, Agra; received the PMRBP 2025 (Bravery).
9 when reported in December 2025
Uttar Pradesh · India
Image source ↗ · The Times of India
Source photograph · credit and provenance below
BEHIND THE RESULT
The recognition
Ajay Raj of Agra district, Uttar Pradesh, received the Pradhan Mantri Rashtriya Bal Puraskar 2025 in the Bravery category, presented by President Droupadi Murmu at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 26 December 2025. The official list records that he saved his father from a crocodile attack near their village river, and the President named him in her address among children who had saved the lives of others.
What the reports describe — and what they don’t
News reports describe a July morning at the Chambal river near Bah, where his father had gone to fetch water: the crocodile caught his father’s leg, and Ajay struck at it with a stick until it let go. The incident narrative traces mainly to one original news report and its rewrites, and the reports do not print the year of that July — 2025 follows from the award coverage. This story keeps those limits visible. It also states plainly: confronting a wild animal is never something a child should attempt; Ajay acted in a sudden emergency involving his own father.
A spark to explore
The everyday safety lesson is distance and adults: keep away from the water’s edge where crocodiles live, and run for an adult or call for help in an emergency. Which adult near your home or school would you go to first? That is a safety question from us, not part of Ajay’s record.
Source-based story · the activities are prompts for readers.
Open the article edition →The achievement, in context.
Sources you can explore.
Press Information Bureau · Ministry of Women and Child Development · 25 December 2025 ↗Government release
Press Information Bureau · President’s Secretariat · 26 December 2025 ↗Government release
PMRBP 2025 official awardee list · December 2025 ↗Government award list (reproduction)
Original source ↗Another spark to discover.
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Aged 9 in the official award list (December 2025); her mother recalls she was 8 when it happened, in 2024
Read the story →The Times of India ↗Source photograph · see credit