Which is the highest peacetime gallantry award of India?

Ashok Chakra
Indian Army’s elite Para Special Forces’ commando Lance Naik Mohan Nath Goswami has been awarded the country’s highest peace time gallantry honour, Ashok Chakra, posthumously for saving two colleagues during an encounter with militants in Kashmir last year. The Ashok Chakra is awarded for valour, courageous action or self-sacrifice away from the battlefield. It is the peace time gallantry award i.e. awarded for the “most conspicuous bravery or some daring or pre-eminent valour or self-sacrifice” other than in the face of the enemy.