PSO: Personnel, Air HQ Date Raised : 1981-02-23 The post of Air Officer Personnel was created in 1981 to oversee numerous Directorates dealing with matters pertaining to Personnel. Dte of Personnel Officers (DPO), Personnel Airmen (DPA) and Personnel Services (DPS) were transferred to AOP from AOM on the creation of the post. In 1984, DPS was transferred back to AOM, though some elements of it were retained by AOP in the formation of a new Dte of Personnel Planning (DPP) in 1985. In 1987 and 1989 respectivey, Dte of Trg and Dte of Edn were transferred to AOP. Prior to being formed as AOP, a post directly responsible to the Chief of Air Staff, AOP function was performed by ACAS (Personnel), an AVM rank officer reporting to the AOA. This post was created in July 1970. Much earlier in the 1930s the role was managed by an officer designated as "Senior Personnel Staff Officer (SPSO)". Somewhere in the 1940s this was converted into a Directorate called the Dte of Personnel Services. It was again renamed as Dte of Personnel in 1949 and remained so till 1958 when it was broken up into DPO and DPA. It was not until 1970 that all the functions related to Personnel were consolidated again under ACAS (Personnel).
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19 Jul 70 - 01 Dec 71Air Vice MarshalSyed Abbas Hussain1706 GD(P)ACAS (Personnel)Delhi | Unknown - 05 Apr 72Air Vice MarshalKrishna Mahesh Agerwala1648 GD(O)ACAS (Personnel)Delhi | Unknown - 01 Dec 76Air Vice MarshalHemonto Kumar Bose2348 GD(P)ACAS (Personnel)Delhi | Unknown - 01 Dec 78Air Vice MarshalKenneth Hubert Larkins3511 GD(P)ACAS (Personnel)Delhi | 01 Sep 79 - 01 Sep 80Air Vice MarshalSubramaniam Raghavendran3840 GD(P)ACAS (Personnel)Delhi | |
01 Jun 80 - 06 Feb 81Air Vice MarshalSurendra Sahney3860 GD(P)ACAS (Personnel)Delhi | 23 Feb 81 - 31 Dec 82Air MarshalSaroj Jena3157 GD(P)AOPDelhi | 01 Jan 83 - 31 Dec 83Air MarshalDenis Anthony Lafontaine3844 GD(P)AOPDelhi | 01 Jan 84 - 05 Nov 84Air MarshalRipu Daman Sahni3867 GD(P)AOPDelhi | 27 Nov 84 - 21 Aug 85Air MarshalMan Mohan Singh4023 GD(P)AOPDelhi | |
20 Sep 85 - 30 Mar 87Air MarshalNirmal Chandra Suri4236 GD(P)AOPDelhi | 01 Apr 87 - 03 Feb 88Air MarshalMan Mohan Sinha4408 GD(P)AOPDelhi | 04 Feb 88 - 31 Aug 88Air MarshalKrishnaswamy Subramanian4213 GD(N)AOPDelhi | 01 Sep 88 - 30 Jun 89Air MarshalParduman Krishan Puri4397 GD(N)AOPDelhi | 03 Jul 89 - 30 Sep 90Air MarshalHar Krishan Oberai4583 GD(P)AOPDelhi | |
01 Oct 90 - 13 Oct 91Air MarshalPondicherry Jayarao Jayakumar5037 GD(P)AOPDelhi | 14 Oct 91 - 30 Apr 92Air MarshalNaresh Kumar5057 GD(P)AOPDelhi | 01 May 92 - 25 Jul 93Air MarshalPrabhat Kumar Varma4822 GD(P)AOPDelhi | | 31 Dec 93 - 31 Dec 95Air MarshalShiv Nath Rathour5580 GD(N)AOPDelhi | |
01 Jan 96 - 10 Apr 96Air Vice MarshalVinod Kumar Verma6528 GD(P)AOPDelhi | 11 Apr 96 - 30 Sep 99Air MarshalVinod Kumar Verma6528 GD(P)AOPDelhi | 01 Oct 99 - 31 Jan 02Air MarshalKhushindhar Singh Bindra6863 GD(P)AOPDelhi | 01 Feb 02 - 30 Sep 04Air MarshalNarayan Menon9005 GD(P)AOPDelhi | 01 Oct 04 - 30 Aug 05Air MarshalArvind Kumar Nagalia11633 GD(P)AOPDelhi | |
01 Sep 05 - 31 Jan 07Air MarshalYashwant Rao Rane12210 GD(P)AOPDelhi | 01 Feb 07 - 30 Apr 08Air MarshalVenkataraman Ramamurthy Iyer12939 F(P)AOPDelhi | 01 May 08 - 31 Aug 09Air MarshalSumit Mukerji12925 F(P)AOPDelhi | 01 Sep 09 - 31 Dec 10Air MarshalKughikombil Joseph Mathews13393 F(P)AOPDelhi | 01 Jan 11 - 31 Dec 12Air MarshalAnil Chopra13368 F(P)AOPDelhi | |
01 Jan 13 - 28 Feb 14Air MarshalPriya Ranjan Sharma13927 F(P)AOPDelhi | 01 Mar 14 - 31 Jan 15Air MarshalSubramanyam Sukumar14672 F(P)AOPDelhi | 02 Feb 15 - 31 Jul 16Air MarshalSanderraman Neelakantan15184 F(P)AOPDelhi | 01 Aug 16 - 31 Jul 18Air MarshalBalakrishnan Suresh16206 F(P)AOPDelhi | 27 Aug 18 - 31 Oct 19Air MarshalAmit Tiwari16806 F(P)AOPDelhi | |
01 Nov 19 - 30 Sep 20Air MarshalAmit Dev16972 F(P)AOPDelhi | 01 Oct 20 - 30 Jun 21Air MarshalRichard John Duckworth17136 F(P)AOPDelhi | 01 Aug 21 - 31 Aug 23Air MarshalSuraj Kumar Jha17445 F(P)AOPDelhi | 01 Sep 23 - Air MarshalNagesh Kapoor18557 F(P)AOPDelhi |