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 AFS Jalahalli Date Raised : 1948-02-01 Location : Jalahalli West (Bengaluru) AFS Jalahalli was setup in 1941 as a PoW camp which was a few years later converted into a large hospital for British soldiers. This gave it the nickname, Hospital Town. The AFS was formally setup on 1 Feb 1948 with two loder units. A recruits Training Center (including the one from lahore which was merged) and No. 1 GTS which had moved from Secunderabad. 1 GTS was setup in 1943 as Non Technical Training Center at Walton and had moved to Secunderabad. The station currently has CTI, ETI, E&ITI, 16 TETTRA School, IWS and LTI as lodger units
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Commanding Officers | |||||
| Dates | Rank & Name | Number | Remarks | Location | Photo |
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| 01 Feb 48 to 26 Mar 51 | Group Captain Ramaswami Sitaram | 1574 GD(O) | Stn Cdr | Bengaluru |  |
| 10 Jun 51 to 28 Jan 53 | Group Captain Shivdev Singh | 1595 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bengaluru |  |
| 29 Jan 53 to 29 Sep 54 | Group Captain Anantha Ananthanarayanan | 1607 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bengaluru |  |
| 30 Sep 54 to 22 Aug 58 | Group Captain Chaman Lal Mehta | 1630 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bengaluru |  |
| 23 Aug 58 to 22 Jul 59 | Group Captain Kailash Chand | 1754 GD(O) | Stn Cdr | Bengaluru |  |
| 23 Jul 59 to 30 Jun 61 | Group Captain Madhukar Laxman Akut | 1752 GD(O) | Stn Cdr | Bengaluru |  |
| 01 Jul 61 to 09 Nov 63 | Group Captain Arthur Wallapura Chacko | 1622 GD(O) | Stn Cdr | Bengaluru |  |
| 06 Jan 64 to 06 May 65 | Group Captain Gian Dev Sharma | 1742 GD(P) | Stn Cdr | Bengaluru |  |
| 07 May 65 to 09 Aug 66 | Group Captain Shanti Swarup Enand | 1989 GD(O) | Stn Cdr | Bengaluru |  |
| 10 Aug 66 to 25 Mar 68 | Air Commodore Tapeswar Basu | 1797 GD(O) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 20 Apr 68 to 15 Jul 70 | Air Commodore Narayanrao Khanderao Shitoley | 1841 GD(O) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 02 Dec 70 to 30 Aug 72 | Air Commodore Bal Bhagwan Marathe | 1915 GD(P) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 01 Sep 72 to 30 Jun 74 | Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar | 3484 GD(P) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 01 Jul 74 to 17 Aug 75 | Air Commodore Madhu Sudan Ray | 3469 GD(N) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 18 Aug 75 to 31 Oct 77 | Air Commodore Naresh Kumar Midha | 3658 GD(P) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 19 Dec 77 to 31 Oct 78 | Air Commodore Madan Lal Sethi | 4009 GD(N) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 02 Jan 79 to 31 Dec 79 | Air Commodore Ashok Kumar | 4099 GD(P) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 18 Aug 80 to 04 Jan 83 | Air Commodore Kambiranda Muthanna Ponnappa | 4503 GD(P) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 05 Mar 83 to 27 Mar 85 | Air Commodore Pulaveri Srinivasa Rajagopal | 4698 SIGS | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 28 Mar 85 to 05 Jul 86 | Air Commodore Samir Roy | 4953 SIGS | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 06 Jul 86 to 31 Jul 87 | Air Commodore Subbiah Murugan | 5252 SIGS | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 01 Aug 87 to 18 Jul 88 | Air Commodore Aswatha Narayana Rao Srinivasa Murthy | 5546 SIGS | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 26 Jul 88 to 30 Nov 89 | Air Commodore Bantual Chandrakantha Prabhu | 5950 ELECT | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 11 Dec 89 to 12 Apr 91 | Air Commodore Gubbi Seetharamiah Jagannatha Rao | 5977 ARMT | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 22 Apr 91 to 24 Dec 91 | Air Commodore Pran Nath Bajaj | 6392 ENG | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 17 Feb 92 to 28 Dec 92 | Air Commodore Shanti Swaroop Gupta | 6805 ENG | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 29 Dec 92 to 01 Jan 94 | Air Commodore Peri Prakash Rao | 6380 ENG | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 01 Jan 94 to 14 Oct 95 | Air Commodore Atma Singh | 7094 SIGS | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 14 Oct 95 to 28 Apr 98 | Air Commodore Pirthi Pal Singh Kahlon | 7979 ENG | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 29 Apr 98 to 10 Dec 00 | Air Commodore Ramakrishna Somnath | 10780 SIGS | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 11 Dec 00 to 25 Jun 02 | Air Commodore Dayanand Kunnahanna Hegde | 11743 AE(L) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 01 Jul 02 to 31 Dec 03 | Air Commodore Krishanvir Singh Yadav | 12444 AE(M) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 01 Jan 04 to 28 Dec 04 | Air Commodore Sundaresan Swaminathan | 13044 AE(L) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 29 Dec 04 to 30 Sep 07 | Air Commodore Bhupal Singh | 12634 AE(L) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 08 Oct 07 to 31 Oct 08 | Air Commodore Bhajan Lal Thakral | 14195 AE(M) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 04 Nov 08 to 30 Nov 08 | Air Vice Marshal Bhajan Lal Thakral | 14195 AE(M) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
| 01 Dec 08 to 30 Sep 10 | Air Commodore Atul Bhushan Maini | 14605 AE(M) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 01 Oct 10 to 15 Apr 12 | Air Commodore Praveen Kumar | 15970 AE(M) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 16 Apr 12 to 31 Aug 13 | Air Commodore Dharmveer | 15480 AE(M) | AOC | Bengaluru | |
| 02 Sep 13 to 30 Jun 15 | Air Commodore Kishori Lal Yadav | 16931 AE(L) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 01 Jun 17 to 31 Aug 17 | Air Commodore Tushar Gunvantrai Desai | 17665 AE(L) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
| 01 Sep 17 to 31 Jan 19 | Air Commodore Sukumaran Ramakrishnan | 18466 AE(L) | AOC | Bengaluru |  |
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