[3] At the time of institution, it was to be awarded for duties outside India on: All ranks of the three services – Indian Army, Indian Navy and Indian Air Force, along with the Territorial Army, embodied Auxiliary and Reserve Forces or any other lawfully constituted Armed Forces are eligible for the grant of the award.

Persons with regular staff of diplomatic mission do not fall within purview of the medal.

It shall have embossed on the obverse the State Emblem and the inscription below it along the rim.

The ribbon is 32 mm in width and is in cobalt blue colour with 5 vertical stripes of white dividing it into six equal parts.

[4] The clasps to the medal are bars 32 mm long with the name of the country of service inscribed on it.