Major Ashish Kumar Roy was born on Feb 10, 1982 in Patna, capital of Bihar in a very respected and educated family. Son of a well-known child specialist in Barauni Dr. S R Roy and Professor Smt Roy, He finished his senior secondary schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Hindustan Fertilizer Corporation (HFC) Barauni in the year 2000. He was inclined to join the Armed Forces since his younger days and eventually got selected to join the Amy after completing his school studies. He joined IMA, Dehradun and then CTW, CME, Pune for B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering. He was brilliant in academics and remained among top performers in all the academic courses.

Bomb Disposal Operation : 03 Dec 2012

During 2012, Maj Ashish K Roy, was serving with his parent unit and was posted at Meerut. The operational role of his Regiment was to provide mobility to own forces by constructing bridges, tracks and helipads and on the other hand deny the same to the enemy by creating obstacles such as laying mine-fields and demolition of bridges. The role demanded continuous training of troops on various operational activities. Maj Ashish K Roy was assigned the task of leading one such training schedule for bomb disposal in Dec 2012.