This is a list of serving Admirals of the Indian Navy.
The Chief of the Naval Staff is the only serving Four Star Admiral in the Indian Navy.
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Chief of the Naval Staff | Admiral | Dinesh Kumar Tripathi |
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PVSM, AVSM, NM | [1] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Vice Chief of the Naval Staff | Vice Admiral | Krishna Swaminathan | ![]() |
AVSM, VSM | [2] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Naval Command |
Vice Admiral | Sanjay Jasjit Singh |
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AVSM, NM | [3] |
Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command |
Rajesh Pendharkar |
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AVSM, VSM | [4] | |
Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Naval Command |
Vennam Srinivas |
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AVSM, NM | [5] | |
Commander-in-Chief Strategic Forces Command* | Suraj Berry |
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AVSM, NM, VSM | [6] [7] |
*Rotational Command among the Indian Armed Force.
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff | Vice Admiral | Tarun Sobti | ![]() |
AVSM, VSM | [8] |
Chief of Personnel | Sanjay Bhalla |
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AVSM, NM | [9] | |
Chief of Materiel | Kiran Deshmukh | ![]() |
AVSM, VSM | [10] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Deputy Chief of
Integrated Defence Staff (Perspective Planning & Financial Development) |
Vice Admiral | Sanjay Vatsayan | ![]() |
AVSM, NM | [11] |
Additional Secretary Department of Military Affairs |
Vice Admiral | Atul Anand | ![]() |
AVSM, VSM | [12] |
Joint Secretary (Navy & Defence Staff) Department of Military Affairs |
Rear Admiral | Vikram Menon | ![]() |
VSM | [13] |
Joint Secretary (Maritime Security) National Security Council Secretariat |
Rear Admiral | TVN Prasanna | ![]() |
VSM | [14] |
Chief of Staff Andaman and Nicobar Command |
Rear Admiral | Sandeep Sandhu | ![]() |
NM | [15] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Director General Medical Services (Navy) | Surgeon Vice Admiral | Arti Sarin | ![]() |
AVSM, VSM | [16] |
Chief Hydrographer | Vice Admiral | Lochan Singh Pathania | ![]() |
[17] | |
Director General Naval Operations | A. N. Pramod | ![]() |
AVSM | [18] | |
Director General Project Seabird | |||||
Controller Warship Production & Acquisition | B. Sivakumar | AVSM, VSM | [19] | ||
Controller of Logistics | Deepak Kapoor | ![]() |
AVSM | [20] | |
Inspector General Nuclear Safety | |||||
Controller of Personnel Services | Gurcharan Singh | ![]() |
AVSM, NM | [21] | |
Programme Director, HQ Advanced Tactical Vehicle Project | |||||
Director General Naval Projects, Mumbai | Rajaram Swaminathan | ![]() |
AVSM, NM | [22] [23] | |
Director General Naval Projects, Visakhapatnam | G. Srinivasan | AVSM, VSM | [24] | ||
Director General Warship Design Bureau | Rear Admiral | I. B. Uthaiah | AVSM, VSM | [25] | |
Director General (Submarine Design Group) | Mukul Kapur | [26] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Chief of Staff Western Naval Command |
Vice Admiral | Ajay Kochhar |
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AVSM, NM | [27] |
Chief of Staff Eastern Naval Command |
Sameer Saxena |
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AVSM, NM | [28] | |
Chief of Staff Southern Naval Command |
Rear Admiral | Upal Kundu |
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[29] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Commandant National Defence Academy | Vice Admiral | Gurcharan Singh |
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AVSM, NM | [30] |
Commandant Indian Naval Academy | Vineet McCarty |
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AVSM | [31] [32] | |
Commandant Naval War College, Goa | Rear Admiral | Arjun Dev Nair |
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VSM | [33] |
Commandant Military Institute of Technology | Nelson D’Souza | NM | [34] | ||
Chief Instructor (Navy) Defence Services Staff College |
Puruvir Das | NM | [35] | ||
Senior Directing Staff (Navy) National Defence College |
Sanjay Sachdeva | NM | [36] | ||
Deputy Commandant of Indian Naval Academy | Prakash Gopalan |
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[37] | ||
Principal, Indian Naval Academy | Rajvir Singh |
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[38] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet | Rear Admiral | C. R. Praveen Nair | ![]() |
NM | [39] |
Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet | Rajesh Dhankhar | ![]() |
NM | [40] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Flag Officer Commanding Maharashtra Naval Area | Rear Admiral | Manish Chadha | ![]() |
VSM | [41] |
Flag Officer Commanding Gujarat Naval Area | Anil Jaggi | [42] [43] | |||
Flag Officer Commanding Goa Naval Area & Flag Officer Naval Aviation |
Ajay D. Theophilus | ![]() |
[44] | ||
Flag Officer Commanding Karnataka Naval Area | K. M. Ramakrishnan | ![]() |
VSM | [45] | |
Flag Officer Commanding Tamil Nadu & Puducherry Naval Area | Ravi Kumar Dhingra | ![]() |
VSM | [46] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Policy & Plans) |
Rear Admiral | ||||
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Air) |
Janak Bevli | VSM | [47] | ||
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Submarines) |
VR Peshwae | VSM | [48] | ||
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Special Submarine Projects) |
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Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Foreign Cooperation & Intelligence) |
Nirbhay Bapna | VSM | [49] | ||
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Communications, Space & Network Centric Operations) |
Rahul Shankar | NM | [50] | ||
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Air Materiel) |
Anshuman Chauhan | [51] | |||
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Staff Requirements) |
Vivek Dahiya | NM | [52] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Assistant Controller of Carrier Projects | Rear Admiral | Sandeep Mehta | VSM | [53] | |
Assistant Controller of Warship Production and Acquisition | |||||
Assistant Chief of Personnel (Human Resource Development) |
Rahul Vilas Gokhale | NM | [54] | ||
Assistant Chief of Personnel (Administration and Civilian) |
Aditya Hara | [55] | |||
Judge Advocate General | |||||
Assistant Controller of Logistics | |||||
Assistant Chief of Materiel (Nuclear System Maintenance) |
R Raghuram | [56] | |||
Assistant Chief of Materiel (Information Technology & Systems) |
Subasish Gantayat | [57] | |||
Assistant Chief of Materiel (Dockyard & Refit) |
K Srinivas | [58] | |||
Assistant Chief of Materiel (Modernisation) |
IS Grewal | [59] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chief Staff Officer (Ops) Western Naval Command |
Rear Admiral | Vidhyadhar Harke |
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VSM | [60] |
Chief Staff Officer (Ops) Eastern Naval Command |
Shantanu Jha |
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NM | [61] | |
Chief Staff Officer (Training) Southern Naval Command |
Satish Shenai |
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NM | [62] | |
Chief Staff Officer (Tech) Western Naval Command |
R. Adhisrinivasan |
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[63] | ||
Chief Staff Officer (Tech) Eastern Naval Command |
Ravnish Seth | [64] | |||
Chief Staff Officer (Personnel & Administration) Western Naval Command |
Sundeep K Verma | NM | [65] | ||
Chief Staff Officer (Personnel & Administration) Eastern Naval Command |
M. Murli Mohan Raju |
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NM | [66] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Admiral Superintendent Naval Dockyard (Mumbai) |
Rear Admiral | Deepak Kumar Goswami | AVSM | [67] | |
Admiral Superintendent Naval Dockyard (Visakhapatnam) |
R. Vijay Sekhar | AVSM, NM | [68] | ||
Admiral Superintendent Naval Ship Repair Yard, Kochi |
Subir Mukherjee | ![]() |
NM | [69] | |
Admiral Superintendent Naval Ship Repair Yard, Karwar |
Ajay Patney | [70] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Flag Officer Defence Advisory Group | Rear Admiral | Sathish Vasudev | ![]() |
NM | [71] |
Flag Officer Doctrine & Concepts | |||||
Joint Chief Hydrographer | Peush Pawsey |
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[72] | ||
Flag Officer Submarines | K. Venkatraman | VSM | [73] | ||
Flag Officer Sea Training | Susheel Menon | ![]() |
VSM | [74] | |
Additional Director General National Cadet Corps |
Manish Sharma | NM | [75] | ||
Director General Defence Cyber Agency |
Mohit Gupta | VSM | [76] | ||
Director, Defence Machine Design Establishment | Ashwani Kumar Tikoo | [77] | |||
Additional Director General Quality Assurance (Navy) |
[78] | ||||
Project Director (Operations & Training) HQ Advanced Tactical Vehicle Project |
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Project Director (Ship Construction) HQ Advanced Tactical Vehicle Project |
M. Nirmal Menon | VSM | [79] | ||
Director General Naval Armament Inspection | Brijesh Vashishta | [80] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Command Medical Officer, Western Naval Command | Surgeon Rear Admiral | Anupam Kapur | NM | [81] | |
Command Medical Officer Eastern Naval Command | Ajit Gopinath | VSM | [82] | ||
Commanding Officer, INHS Asvini | Vivek Hande | VSM | [83] | ||
Command Medical Officer, Southern Naval Command | Dilip Raghavan | [84] | |||
Additional Director General Medical Services (Navy) | Manish Honwad | [85] |
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This is a list of serving Admirals of the Indian Navy.
The Chief of the Naval Staff is the only serving Four Star Admiral in the Indian Navy.
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chief of the Naval Staff | Admiral | Dinesh Kumar Tripathi |
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PVSM, AVSM, NM | [1] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Vice Chief of the Naval Staff | Vice Admiral | Krishna Swaminathan | ![]() |
AVSM, VSM | [2] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Naval Command |
Vice Admiral | Sanjay Jasjit Singh |
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AVSM, NM | [3] |
Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command |
Rajesh Pendharkar |
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AVSM, VSM | [4] | |
Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Naval Command |
Vennam Srinivas |
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AVSM, NM | [5] | |
Commander-in-Chief Strategic Forces Command* | Suraj Berry |
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AVSM, NM, VSM | [6] [7] |
*Rotational Command among the Indian Armed Force.
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff | Vice Admiral | Tarun Sobti | ![]() |
AVSM, VSM | [8] |
Chief of Personnel | Sanjay Bhalla |
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AVSM, NM | [9] | |
Chief of Materiel | Kiran Deshmukh | ![]() |
AVSM, VSM | [10] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Deputy Chief of
Integrated Defence Staff (Perspective Planning & Financial Development) |
Vice Admiral | Sanjay Vatsayan | ![]() |
AVSM, NM | [11] |
Additional Secretary Department of Military Affairs |
Vice Admiral | Atul Anand | ![]() |
AVSM, VSM | [12] |
Joint Secretary (Navy & Defence Staff) Department of Military Affairs |
Rear Admiral | Vikram Menon | ![]() |
VSM | [13] |
Joint Secretary (Maritime Security) National Security Council Secretariat |
Rear Admiral | TVN Prasanna | ![]() |
VSM | [14] |
Chief of Staff Andaman and Nicobar Command |
Rear Admiral | Sandeep Sandhu | ![]() |
NM | [15] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Director General Medical Services (Navy) | Surgeon Vice Admiral | Arti Sarin | ![]() |
AVSM, VSM | [16] |
Chief Hydrographer | Vice Admiral | Lochan Singh Pathania | ![]() |
[17] | |
Director General Naval Operations | A. N. Pramod | ![]() |
AVSM | [18] | |
Director General Project Seabird | |||||
Controller Warship Production & Acquisition | B. Sivakumar | AVSM, VSM | [19] | ||
Controller of Logistics | Deepak Kapoor | ![]() |
AVSM | [20] | |
Inspector General Nuclear Safety | |||||
Controller of Personnel Services | Gurcharan Singh | ![]() |
AVSM, NM | [21] | |
Programme Director, HQ Advanced Tactical Vehicle Project | |||||
Director General Naval Projects, Mumbai | Rajaram Swaminathan | ![]() |
AVSM, NM | [22] [23] | |
Director General Naval Projects, Visakhapatnam | G. Srinivasan | AVSM, VSM | [24] | ||
Director General Warship Design Bureau | Rear Admiral | I. B. Uthaiah | AVSM, VSM | [25] | |
Director General (Submarine Design Group) | Mukul Kapur | [26] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Chief of Staff Western Naval Command |
Vice Admiral | Ajay Kochhar |
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AVSM, NM | [27] |
Chief of Staff Eastern Naval Command |
Sameer Saxena |
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AVSM, NM | [28] | |
Chief of Staff Southern Naval Command |
Rear Admiral | Upal Kundu |
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[29] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Commandant National Defence Academy | Vice Admiral | Gurcharan Singh |
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AVSM, NM | [30] |
Commandant Indian Naval Academy | Vineet McCarty |
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AVSM | [31] [32] | |
Commandant Naval War College, Goa | Rear Admiral | Arjun Dev Nair |
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VSM | [33] |
Commandant Military Institute of Technology | Nelson D’Souza | NM | [34] | ||
Chief Instructor (Navy) Defence Services Staff College |
Puruvir Das | NM | [35] | ||
Senior Directing Staff (Navy) National Defence College |
Sanjay Sachdeva | NM | [36] | ||
Deputy Commandant of Indian Naval Academy | Prakash Gopalan |
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[37] | ||
Principal, Indian Naval Academy | Rajvir Singh |
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[38] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet | Rear Admiral | C. R. Praveen Nair | ![]() |
NM | [39] |
Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet | Rajesh Dhankhar | ![]() |
NM | [40] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Flag Officer Commanding Maharashtra Naval Area | Rear Admiral | Manish Chadha | ![]() |
VSM | [41] |
Flag Officer Commanding Gujarat Naval Area | Anil Jaggi | [42] [43] | |||
Flag Officer Commanding Goa Naval Area & Flag Officer Naval Aviation |
Ajay D. Theophilus | ![]() |
[44] | ||
Flag Officer Commanding Karnataka Naval Area | K. M. Ramakrishnan | ![]() |
VSM | [45] | |
Flag Officer Commanding Tamil Nadu & Puducherry Naval Area | Ravi Kumar Dhingra | ![]() |
VSM | [46] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Policy & Plans) |
Rear Admiral | ||||
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Air) |
Janak Bevli | VSM | [47] | ||
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Submarines) |
VR Peshwae | VSM | [48] | ||
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Special Submarine Projects) |
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Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Foreign Cooperation & Intelligence) |
Nirbhay Bapna | VSM | [49] | ||
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Communications, Space & Network Centric Operations) |
Rahul Shankar | NM | [50] | ||
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Air Materiel) |
Anshuman Chauhan | [51] | |||
Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff (Staff Requirements) |
Vivek Dahiya | NM | [52] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Assistant Controller of Carrier Projects | Rear Admiral | Sandeep Mehta | VSM | [53] | |
Assistant Controller of Warship Production and Acquisition | |||||
Assistant Chief of Personnel (Human Resource Development) |
Rahul Vilas Gokhale | NM | [54] | ||
Assistant Chief of Personnel (Administration and Civilian) |
Aditya Hara | [55] | |||
Judge Advocate General | |||||
Assistant Controller of Logistics | |||||
Assistant Chief of Materiel (Nuclear System Maintenance) |
R Raghuram | [56] | |||
Assistant Chief of Materiel (Information Technology & Systems) |
Subasish Gantayat | [57] | |||
Assistant Chief of Materiel (Dockyard & Refit) |
K Srinivas | [58] | |||
Assistant Chief of Materiel (Modernisation) |
IS Grewal | [59] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Chief Staff Officer (Ops) Western Naval Command |
Rear Admiral | Vidhyadhar Harke |
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VSM | [60] |
Chief Staff Officer (Ops) Eastern Naval Command |
Shantanu Jha |
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NM | [61] | |
Chief Staff Officer (Training) Southern Naval Command |
Satish Shenai |
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NM | [62] | |
Chief Staff Officer (Tech) Western Naval Command |
R. Adhisrinivasan |
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[63] | ||
Chief Staff Officer (Tech) Eastern Naval Command |
Ravnish Seth | [64] | |||
Chief Staff Officer (Personnel & Administration) Western Naval Command |
Sundeep K Verma | NM | [65] | ||
Chief Staff Officer (Personnel & Administration) Eastern Naval Command |
M. Murli Mohan Raju |
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NM | [66] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Admiral Superintendent Naval Dockyard (Mumbai) |
Rear Admiral | Deepak Kumar Goswami | AVSM | [67] | |
Admiral Superintendent Naval Dockyard (Visakhapatnam) |
R. Vijay Sekhar | AVSM, NM | [68] | ||
Admiral Superintendent Naval Ship Repair Yard, Kochi |
Subir Mukherjee | ![]() |
NM | [69] | |
Admiral Superintendent Naval Ship Repair Yard, Karwar |
Ajay Patney | [70] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Flag Officer Defence Advisory Group | Rear Admiral | Sathish Vasudev | ![]() |
NM | [71] |
Flag Officer Doctrine & Concepts | |||||
Joint Chief Hydrographer | Peush Pawsey |
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[72] | ||
Flag Officer Submarines | K. Venkatraman | VSM | [73] | ||
Flag Officer Sea Training | Susheel Menon | ![]() |
VSM | [74] | |
Additional Director General National Cadet Corps |
Manish Sharma | NM | [75] | ||
Director General Defence Cyber Agency |
Mohit Gupta | VSM | [76] | ||
Director, Defence Machine Design Establishment | Ashwani Kumar Tikoo | [77] | |||
Additional Director General Quality Assurance (Navy) |
[78] | ||||
Project Director (Operations & Training) HQ Advanced Tactical Vehicle Project |
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Project Director (Ship Construction) HQ Advanced Tactical Vehicle Project |
M. Nirmal Menon | VSM | [79] | ||
Director General Naval Armament Inspection | Brijesh Vashishta | [80] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Command Medical Officer, Western Naval Command | Surgeon Rear Admiral | Anupam Kapur | NM | [81] | |
Command Medical Officer Eastern Naval Command | Ajit Gopinath | VSM | [82] | ||
Commanding Officer, INHS Asvini | Vivek Hande | VSM | [83] | ||
Command Medical Officer, Southern Naval Command | Dilip Raghavan | [84] | |||
Additional Director General Medical Services (Navy) | Manish Honwad | [85] |
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