Navy Senior Appointments & Officers List

NAVY SENIOR APPOINTMENTS & OFFICERS LIST

Last Updated: 01 December 2007

Special thanks to Rakesh Koshy and Ravi Rao. The list of senior officers given below has been compiled from open sources. Bharat Rakshak maintains no claim regarding the accuracy of this document and it is subject to revision from time to time. If you know any information on some of these appointments and which is not classified or restricted information then you are requested to get in touch with the webmasters.

	Rank and Appointment	Name	Serial No.	Appt. Date	Comm. Date
	Admiral
1	Chief of Naval Staff	Sureesh Mehta	00727-A	31 Oct 2006	July 1967

	Vice Admiral
1	Vice Chief of Naval Staff	Nirmal Kumar Verma	01139-N	30 Nov 2006	01 July 1970
2	Deputy Chief of Naval Staff	Anup Singh	01424-K	26 April 2007	01 July 1973

3	Chief of Personnel	Dalip Kumar Dewan	01396-Y	July 2007
4	Chief of Material	Birinder Singh Randhawa	40298-K	01 Dec 2007	01 Jan 1969

5	Controller - Logistics
6	Controller - Personnel Services
7	Controller - Warship Production & Acquisition	Dilip Deshpande	40385-H	01 Dec 2007	19 Sept 1969

8	FOC-in-C Western Naval Command	Jagjit Singh Bedi	01002-A	31 July 2007	July 1969
9	FOC-in-C Eastern Naval Command	Raman Prem Suthan	01137-H	30 April 2007	July 1970
10	FOC-in-C Southern Naval Command	Sunil Krishnaji Damle	01168-B	28 July 2007	19 Dec 1970

11	DG-Naval Projects (Mumbai)	Brij Krishna Kaul	50272-B	16 May 2006
12	DG-Defence Planning Staff
13	DG-Naval Design
14	DG-Coast Guard	Rustom Faramroze Contractor	01224-F	31 Aug 2006	01 July 1971

15	Commandant, National Defence College	Pradeep Kaushiva		31 Oct 2006
16	DG-Armed Forces Medical Services	Yogendra Singh		01 May 2007	01 Jan 1969
17	DG-Medical Services (Navy)	Sujan Singh		01 May 2007

	Rear Admiral
1	Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Air)	Vijay Shankar	01088-Y	June 2007
2	Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Operations)	Pradeep Chauhan
3	Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Submarines)
4	Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Perception & Planning)	Anil Kumar Chopra	01627-Y
5	Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Info Warfare & Operations)	Surinder Pal Singh Cheema	01704-Y	04 May 2006

6	Chief of Staff, Western Naval Command	Muttathil Puthanveetil Muralidharan	01587-F	May 2007	Jan 1975
7	Chief of Staff, Eastern Naval Command	Anurag Gopalan Thapliyal		26 Sept 2006	1977
8	Chief of Staff, Southern Naval Command	Sunil Lanba		May 2007
9	Chief of Staff, Andaman & Nicobar Command	P K Nair		01 Nov 2006

10	FOC Western Fleet	Shekhar Sinha		15 Mar 2007	01 June 1974
11	FOC Eastern Fleet	Rabinder Kumar Dhowan	01563-A	15 Mar 2007

12	Flag Officer Maharashtra Area	Anand Yashwant Kalaskar		15 Mar 2007
13	Flag Officer Naval Aviation Flag Officer Commanding Goa Area	Sanjay M Vadgaokar		24 Feb 2006	1975
14	Flag Officer Defence Advisory Group Advisor, Offshore Security & Defence	Rajender Singh		May 2007
15	Flag Officer Sea Training	Rama Kant Pattanaik	01860-A	May 2007
16	Flag Officer Submarines	Pradip K Chatterjee		01 Sept 2006

17	Assistant Controller - Logistics
18	Assistant Chief of Personnel (Career Planning)
19	Assistant Chief of Material (Dockyards & Refit)	R Tikku		01 Dec 2007
20	Assistant Chief of Material (Information Technology & Systems)	Rakesh Bajaj	50560-H	01 May 2007
21	Assistant Chief of Personnel (Human Resources Development)	Satish Soni	01683-Z	28 Feb 2006

22	DG-Seabird	A R Radhakrishnan		May 2007
23	Commandant, Naval Academy	Devendra Kumar Joshi	01507-Z	May 2007
24	Assistant Controller, Carrier Projects
25	DG-Naval Projects, Eastern Naval Command	Satish Sadashiv Godbole			July 1969
26	DG-Naval Projects, Western Naval Command
27	Director, Naval Science & Technological Laboratory
28	DG-Weapons & Electronics Systems Engineering Establishment

29	Command Medical Officer, Western Naval Command	V S Dixit		26 May 2006
30	Commander, INHS Aswini	V K Saxena		26 May 2006

31	Admiral Superintendent, Naval Dockyard - Mumbai	K C Shekar		April 2007
32	Admiral Superintendent, Naval Dockyard - Visakhapatnam	Ganesh Mahadevan	50344-T	April 2007