Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to the Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee | |
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Type | Vice chief of defence |
Status | Executive-in-charge of the Integrated Defence Staff. |
Abbreviation | CISC |
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Seat | South Hutments, Kashmir House, Rajaji Marg, New Delhi [2] |
Appointer | Appointments Committee of the Cabinet Ministry of Defence |
Term length | No fixed term |
Formation | 1 October 2001 |
First holder | Lieutenant General Pankaj Joshi PVSM , AVSM [3] |
Deputy | Deputy Chiefs of the Integrated Defence Staff (DCIDS) [4] |
Website | Official website |
The Chief of Integrated Defence Staff to Chairman Chiefs of Staff Committee (CISC) is the statutory office that heads the Integrated Defence Staff (IDS), the principal inter-service syndicate of the Indian Armed Forces. [5] Customarily held by a three-star officer nominated from either of India's three armed services, the CISC is the second-highest authority responsible for inter-service jointness, subordinate only to the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS). [6]
By function, the CISC is the executive-in-charge of the IDS, and thus, maintains oversight over inter-service coordination on crucial disciplines related to military functioning, specifically, intelligence, doctrine, joint planning, budgetary allocations and training. [1] In addition, the CISC serves as a non-voting member of the Chiefs of Staff Committee - of which the CDS is its Chairman; thus by definition, the CISC reports to the CDS, who is the final authority on military jointness. [1]
Domestically, the CISC ranks 23rd-overall in the Indian order of precedence and is the status-equivalent to the Vice Chiefs of Staff of the Indian Army, the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force; internationally, it is identical to Canada's Vice Chief of the Defence Staff and Spain's Chief of the Joint Defence Staff. [7] [8]
As the penultimate authority (second only to the CDS) tasked with the affairs of inter-service administration of the armed forces, the CISC participates in two crucial bodies: the Chiefs of Staff Committee (COSC) and the Integrated Defence Staff (IDS). [9]
The COSC is an inter-service syndicate of the armed forces, which functions as a principal advisory body dealing with matters related to inter-service coordination, policy formulation and strategy development. It comprises the CDS - who acts as its Permanent Chairman and the Chiefs of Staff of the three armed services; the CISC is also a member, albeit a non-voting one. [9]
In addition to the COSC, the CISC chairs the VCC, which comprises the Vice Chiefs of Staff of the three services; this being maintained since the status of CISC itself is deemed equivalent to that of a Vice Chief. [9]
Since its inception in 2001 the office of CISC is held on a rotational basis by the three armed services, with a three-star officer being the customary occupant. [10]
Additionally, the CISC is assisted by the undermentioned subordinate officers, all of whom are also three-star officers:
No. | Portrait | Name (born–died) | Term of office | Service branch | Ref. | ||
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Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||
1 | Lieutenant General Pankaj Joshi PVSM , AVSM | 1 October 2001 | 30 September 2003 | 1 year, 364 days | ![]() | [3] | |
2 | Vice Admiral Raman Puri PVSM , AVSM , VSM | 20 October 2003 | 28 February 2006 | 2 years, 131 days | ![]() | [12] | |
3 | Lieutenant General H. S. Lidder UYSM , YSM , VSM | 2 March 2006 | 30 September 2008 | 2 years, 212 days | ![]() | [13] | |
4 | Air Marshal Suresh Chandra Mukul AVSM , VM , VSM | 1 October 2008 | 30 December 2010 | 2 years, 90 days | ![]() | [14] [15] | |
5 | Vice Admiral Devendra Kumar Joshi AVSM , YSM , NM , VSM | 31 December 2010 | 3 July 2011 | 184 days | ![]() | [16] | |
6 | Vice Admiral Shekhar Sinha AVSM , NM | 4 July 2011 | 30 August 2011 | 57 days | ![]() | [17] | |
7 | Vice Admiral S. P. S. Cheema AVSM , NM | 31 August 2011 | 1 November 2012 | 1 year, 62 days | ![]() | [18] | |
8 | Lieutenant General N. C. Marwah PVSM , AVSM | 2 November 2012 | 30 June 2013 | 240 days | ![]() | [19] | |
9 | Lieutenant General Anil Chait PVSM , AVSM , VSM | 1 July 2013 | 30 June 2014 | 364 days | ![]() | [20] | |
10 | Air Marshal P. P. Reddy VM | 1 July 2014 | 30 October 2016 | 2 years, 121 days | ![]() | [21] [22] | |
11 | Lieutenant General Satish Dua UYSM , SM , VSM | 31 October 2016 | 31 October 2018 | 2 years, 0 days | ![]() | [23] | |
12 | Lieutenant General P. S. Rajeshwar PVSM , AVSM , VSM | 1 November 2018 | 30 November 2019 | 1 year, 29 days | ![]() | [24] | |
13 | Vice Admiral R. Hari Kumar AVSM , VSM | 2 December 2019 | 28 February 2021 | 1 year, 88 days | ![]() | [25] | |
14 | Vice Admiral Atul Kumar Jain PVSM , AVSM , VSM | 28 February 2021 | 30 September 2021 | 214 days | ![]() | [26] | |
15 | Air Marshal Balabhadra Radha Krishna AVSM , SC | 30 September 2021 | 31 March 2023 | 214 days | ![]() | [27] | |
16 | Lieutenant General Johnson P Mathew PVSM , UYSM , AVSM , VSM | 03 April 2023 | 30 April 2025 | 2 years, 27 days | ![]() | [28] [29] | |
17 | Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit AVSM , VM , VSM | 1 May 2025 | Incumbent | 0 days | ![]() | [30] |
Army - 7
Navy - 6
Air Force - 4