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230 Signal Unit Vigilants


Date Raised : 1964-04-04 Location : Amritsar Cantt
230 SU Was formed at Chandigarh in March 1964, it was the first radar Units on the P-30(M) Russian radar. It moved to Amritsar soon after and was in the thick of action in the 1965 and 1971 operations as the GCI to 501 SU. A full ADDC role was assigned to it on 01 Oct 1973. The Unit changed over to the PSM-33 in Sept 1984 and the Unit was renamed as 361 SU. . On 21 Feb 1994 the TRS-2215 radar was installed and the Units name 230 SU revived.

Commanding Officers


04 Apr 64 - 03 May 65
Squadron Leader
Lakhmir Singh
4941 SIGS
CO
Amritsar

04 May 65 - 19 Jun 67
Wing Commander
Krishna Dandapani
3583 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

20 Jul 67 - 24 Sep 67
Wing Commander
Amal Chandra Gupta
4246 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

25 Sep 67 - 21 Sep 69
Wing Commander
Kirpal Singh Sufi
3952 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

22 Sep 69 - 11 May 70
Wing Commander
Om Prakash Taneja
3843 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

12 May 70 - 16 Apr 72
Wing Commander
Gandharva Sen
4429 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

17 Apr 72 - 09 May 75
Wing Commander
Satya Paul Khanna
4734 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

10 May 75 - 15 Feb 76
Wing Commander
Allan Albert Da Costa
4580 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

16 Feb 76 - 23 Jan 77
Wing Commander
Om Prakash Mishra
4586 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

24 Jan 77 - 20 Dec 79
Wing Commander
Suresh Damodar Karnik
5056 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

14 Jan 80 - 21 Mar 82
Wing Commander
Diptesh Das
5206 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

22 Mar 82 - 26 Aug 84
Wing Commander
Jagdish Bhattacharya
7739 GD(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

27 Aug 84 - 13 Aug 86
Group Captain
Teshter Jall Master
7224 GD(P)
Stn Cdr - OC 361 SU
Amritsar

13 Oct 86 - 25 Jan 88
Group Captain
Rajinder Mohan Singh Datta
8711 GD(P)
Stn Cdr - OC 361 SU
Amritsar

25 Jun 88 - 30 Aug 89
Wing Commander
Chander Mohan Rai
11357 GD(P)
Stn Cdr - OC 361 SU
Amritsar

01 Sep 89 - 16 Mar 92
Group Captain
Kishore Chand Sharma
10171 GD(P)
Stn Cdr - OC 361 SU
Amritsar

17 Mar 92 - 22 Sep 94
Group Captain
Balbinder Singh Marwaha
9714 GD(P)
Stn Cdr - OC 361 SU
Amritsar

23 Jan 95 - 24 Jun 96
Group Captain
Philip Mohan Mathai
13244 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

28 Oct 96 - 16 Jan 00
Group Captain
Amar Singh Ganpatrao Patil
13272 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

17 Jan 00 - 27 Oct 02
Group Captain
Jatinder Singh Dhillon
13764 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

28 Oct 02 - 13 Feb 05
Group Captain
Paramjit Singh Mann
15570 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

14 Feb 05 - 07 Jun 07
Group Captain
Jarnail Singh Malhi
16812 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

08 Jun 07 - 14 Jun 09
Group Captain
Sudhanshu Rath
15726 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

15 Jun 09 - 22 May 11
Group Captain
Alok Chaudhry
18271 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar

23 May 11 - 05 May 13
Group Captain
Aman Nautiyal
18789 F(P)
Stn Cdr
Amritsar
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