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

Commanding Officers
01 Feb 48 - 26 Mar 51 Group Captain Ramaswami Sitaram 1574 GD(O) Stn Cdr Bengaluru	10 Jun 51 - 28 Jan 53 Group Captain Shivdev Singh 1595 GD(P) Stn Cdr Bengaluru	29 Jan 53 - 29 Sep 54 Group Captain Anantha Ananthanarayanan 1607 GD(P) Stn Cdr Bengaluru	30 Sep 54 - 22 Aug 58 Group Captain Chaman Lal Mehta 1630 GD(P) Stn Cdr Bengaluru	23 Aug 58 - 22 Jul 59 Group Captain Kailash Chand 1754 GD(O) Stn Cdr Bengaluru
23 Jul 59 - 30 Jun 61 Group Captain Madhukar Laxman Akut 1752 GD(O) Stn Cdr Bengaluru	01 Jul 61 - 09 Nov 63 Group Captain Arthur Wallapura Chacko 1622 GD(O) Stn Cdr Bengaluru	06 Jan 64 - 06 May 65 Group Captain Gian Dev Sharma 1742 GD(P) Stn Cdr Bengaluru	07 May 65 - 09 Aug 66 Group Captain Shanti Swarup Enand 1989 GD(O) Stn Cdr Bengaluru	10 Aug 66 - 25 Mar 68 Air Commodore Tapeswar Basu 1797 GD(O) AOC Bengaluru
20 Apr 68 - 15 Jul 70 Air Commodore Narayanrao Khanderao Shitoley 1841 GD(O) AOC Bengaluru	02 Dec 70 - 30 Aug 72 Air Commodore Bal Bhagwan Marathe 1915 GD(P) AOC Bengaluru	01 Sep 72 - 30 Jun 74 Air Commodore Sudhindra Kumar Majumdar 3484 GD(P) AOC Bengaluru	01 Jul 74 - 17 Aug 75 Air Commodore Madhu Sudan Ray 3469 GD(N) AOC Bengaluru	18 Aug 75 - 31 Oct 77 Air Commodore Naresh Kumar Midha 3658 GD(P) AOC Bengaluru
19 Dec 77 - 31 Oct 78 Air Commodore Madan Lal Sethi 4009 GD(N) AOC Bengaluru	02 Jan 79 - 31 Dec 79 Air Commodore Ashok Kumar 4099 GD(P) AOC Bengaluru	18 Aug 80 - 04 Jan 83 Air Commodore Kambiranda Muthanna Ponnappa 4503 GD(P) AOC Bengaluru	05 Mar 83 - 27 Mar 85 Air Commodore Pulaveri Srinivasa Rajagopal 4698 SIGS AOC Bengaluru	28 Mar 85 - 05 Jul 86 Air Commodore Samir Roy 4953 SIGS AOC Bengaluru
06 Jul 86 - 31 Jul 87 Air Commodore Subbiah Murugan 5252 SIGS AOC Bengaluru	01 Aug 87 - 18 Jul 88 Air Commodore Aswatha Narayana Rao Srinivasa Murthy 5546 SIGS AOC Bengaluru	26 Jul 88 - 30 Nov 89 Air Commodore Bantual Chandrakantha Prabhu 5950 ELECT AOC Bengaluru	11 Dec 89 - 12 Apr 91 Air Commodore Gubbi Seetharamiah Jagannatha Rao 5977 ARMT AOC Bengaluru	22 Apr 91 - 24 Dec 91 Air Commodore Pran Nath Bajaj 6392 ENG AOC Bengaluru
17 Feb 92 - 28 Dec 92 Air Commodore Shanti Swaroop Gupta 6805 ENG AOC Bengaluru	29 Dec 92 - 01 Jan 94 Air Commodore Peri Prakash Rao 6380 ENG AOC Bengaluru	01 Jan 94 - 14 Oct 95 Air Commodore Atma Singh 7094 SIGS AOC Bengaluru	14 Oct 95 - 28 Apr 98 Air Commodore Pirthi Pal Singh Kahlon 7979 ENG AOC Bengaluru	29 Apr 98 - 10 Dec 00 Air Commodore Ramakrishna Somnath 10780 SIGS AOC Bengaluru
11 Dec 00 - 25 Jun 02 Air Commodore Dayanand Kunnahanna Hegde 11743 AE(L) AOC Bengaluru	01 Jul 02 - 31 Dec 03 Air Commodore Krishanvir Singh Yadav 12444 AE(M) AOC Bengaluru	01 Jan 04 - 28 Dec 04 Air Commodore Sundaresan Swaminathan 13044 AE(L) AOC Bengaluru	29 Dec 04 - 30 Sep 07 Air Commodore Bhupal Singh 12634 AE(L) AOC Bengaluru	08 Oct 07 - 31 Oct 08 Air Commodore Bhajan Lal Thakral 14195 AE(M) AOC Bengaluru
04 Nov 08 - 30 Nov 08 Air Vice Marshal Bhajan Lal Thakral 14195 AE(M) AOC Bengaluru	01 Dec 08 - 30 Sep 10 Air Commodore Atul Bhushan Maini 14605 AE(M) AOC Bengaluru	01 Oct 10 - 15 Apr 12 Air Commodore Praveen Kumar 15970 AE(M) AOC Bengaluru	16 Apr 12 - 31 Aug 13 Air Commodore Dharmveer 15480 AE(M) AOC Bengaluru	02 Sep 13 - 30 Jun 15 Air Commodore Kishori Lal Yadav 16931 AE(L) AOC Bengaluru
01 Jun 17 - 31 Aug 17 Air Commodore Tushar Gunvantrai Desai 17665 AE(L) AOC Bengaluru	01 Sep 17 - 31 Jan 19 Air Commodore Sukumaran Ramakrishnan 18466 AE(L) AOC Bengaluru

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