PSO: Inspection & Safety, Air HQ

Date Raised : 1986-04-26

The Post of Director General, Inspection and Safety was created as the most recent PSO to the Chief post in 1986. The role was to oversee Directorates of Flight Safety and Air Staff Inspection. This post was initially referred to as Inspector General and changed to current nomeclature in 2004. Prior to its formation, the role was fulfilled by an AVM rank officer designated as ACAS (Flight Safety & Inspection), a post created in 1973. This post was upgraded in 1986.

Commanding Officers
02 Aug 73 - 26 Jun 74 Air Vice Marshal John Jasper Bouche 2938 GD(P) ACAS (Flt Safety & Insp) Delhi	27 Jun 74 - 06 Jul 76 Air Vice Marshal Jaspal Singh 2451 GD(P) ACAS (Flt Safety & Insp) Delhi	07 Jul 76 - 09 Feb 79 Air Vice Marshal Saroj Jena 3157 GD(P) ACAS (Flt Safety & Insp) Delhi	19 Mar 79 - 30 Jun 83 Air Vice Marshal Prem Pal Singh 3871 GD(P) ACAS (Flt Safety & Insp) Delhi	01 Aug 83 - 12 Nov 84 Air Vice Marshal Brijpal Singh Sikand 3947 GD(P) ACAS (Flt Safety & Insp) Delhi
15 Nov 84 - 20 Apr 86 Air Vice Marshal Kshirode Krishna Sen 4495 GD(P) ACAS (Flt Safety & Insp) Delhi	21 Apr 86 - 31 May 87 Air Marshal Pynummooltil Simon George 4240 GD(P) IG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	28 Jan 88 - 30 Jun 89 Air Marshal Kshirode Krishna Sen 4495 GD(P) IG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	03 Jul 89 - 26 Mar 91 Air Marshal Denzil Joseph Keelor 4805 GD(P) IG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	27 May 91 - 13 Oct 91 Air Marshal Trilochan Singh 5043 GD(P) IG (Insp & Safety) Delhi
14 Oct 91 - 30 Sep 93 Air Marshal Keith David Kingsley Lewis 5109 GD(P) IG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	04 Jul 94 - 31 Oct 95 Air Marshal Dinanath Ramchander Nadkarni 5587 GD(P) IG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	01 Feb 96 - 30 Jun 96 Air Marshal Vinod Kumar Bhatia 6497 GD(P) IG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	16 Oct 96 - 30 Sep 99 Air Marshal Prakash Sadashivrao Pingale 6755 GD(P) IG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	01 Oct 99 - 31 Mar 01 Air Marshal Teshter Jall Master 7224 GD(P) IG (Insp & Safety) Delhi
01 Apr 01 - 31 Jul 01 Air Marshal Michael McMahon 7399 GD(P) IG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	01 Aug 01 - 28 Apr 02 Air Marshal Brijendra Mohan Bali 8438 GD(P) IG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	29 Apr 02 - 31 Oct 02 Air Marshal Vinod Kumar Bhatia 6497 GD(P) IG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	01 Nov 02 - 30 Sep 03 Air Marshal Ashok Kumar Goel 8151 GD(P) IG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	02 Jan 04 - 06 Apr 04 Air Marshal Avdesh Kumar Singh 11005 GD(P) IG (Insp & Safety) Delhi
07 Apr 04 - 10 Oct 04 Air Marshal Avdesh Kumar Singh 11005 GD(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	29 Oct 04 - 31 Aug 06 Air Marshal Padamjit Singh Ahluwalia 11631 GD(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	01 Sep 06 - 30 Sep 08 Air Marshal Vinod Kumar Verma 11638 GD(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	02 Jan 09 - 31 Mar 10 Air Marshal Tejbir Singh Randhawa 12947 F(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	01 Apr 10 - 30 Nov 11 Air Marshal Ajay Shrivniwas Karnik 13140 F(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi
01 Dec 11 - 31 Dec 12 Air Marshal Arun Purushottam Garud 14692 F(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	01 Jan 13 - 30 Jun 14 Air Marshal Pochana Prasad Reddy 15008 F(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	01 Jul 14 - 31 Jan 15 Air Marshal Sanderraman Neelakantan 15184 F(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	01 Feb 15 - 31 May 15 Air Marshal Jasjit Singh Kler 16225 F(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	01 Jun 15 - 30 Nov 15 Air Marshal Karath Padmadass Nair 15195 F(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi
01 Dec 15 - 30 Jun 16 Air Marshal Harjit Singh Arora 16557 F(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	01 Jul 16 - 31 Dec 16 Air Marshal Anil Khosla 15871 F(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	21 Mar 17 - 31 May 19 Air Marshal Sardar Harpal Singh 16071 F(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	01 Jun 19 - 31 Oct 19 Air Marshal Sreekumar Prabhakaran 17318 F(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	01 Nov 19 - 31 Jan 21 Air Marshal Manavendra Singh 16983 F(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi
01 Feb 21 - 30 Apr 22 Air Marshal Gurcharan Singh Bedi 17448 F(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	01 May 22 - 30 Nov 23 Air Marshal Sanjeev Kapoor 18089 F(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi	01 Dec 23 - Air Marshal Makarand Ranade 18586 F(P) DG (Insp & Safety) Delhi

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