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Deputy Chief of the Air Staff | |
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Type | Principal Staff Officer |
Abbreviation | DCAS |
Reports to | Chief of the Air Staff |
Seat | Air Headquarters, New Delhi |
First holder | Air Vice Marshal Subroto Mukerjee |
Salary | ₹224,000 (US$2,800) |
The Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (DCAS) is a senior appointment in the Indian Air Force. [1] The DCAS is a PSO (Principal Staff Officer) at Air Force Headquarters in New Delhi. The office is held by a Three Star Officer in the rank of Air Marshal. The current DCAS is Air Marshal Ashutosh Dixit who took over from Air Marshal Narmdeshwar Tiwari on 15 May 2023. [2]
At the time of independence of India on 15 August 1947, Air Commodore Subroto Mukerjee was appointed Deputy Air Commander, Royal Indian Air Force, in addition to being Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO) at the newly-formed Air HQ. [3] On 15 November the same year, he was promoted to the acting rank of Air Vice Marshal. In 1949, the RIAF was reorganised and the post was re-designated Deputy Chief of the Air Staff (DCAS). The DCAS continued to be the Deputy Air Commander. On 1 January 1963, the post of Vice Chief of the Air Staff was created and became the second-highest post of the Indian Air Force. [4] In 1968, the post was upgraded to three-star rank Air Marshal. [1]
The DCAS ranks at No. 24 on the Indian order of precedence, along with Lieutenant Generals of the Indian Army and Vice Admirals of the Indian Navy. The DCAS is in the HAG+ pay scale (pay level 16), and draws salary depending on the years in service. However, since they should not draw equivalent or more than the next higher level, the remuneration is capped at ₹224,000. [5] [6]
S.No. | Rank | Name | Assumed office | Left office | Notes |
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Deputy Air Commander, Royal Indian Air Force | |||||
1 | Air Vice Marshal [n 1] | Subroto Mukerjee** | 15 August 1947 | 31 January 1949 | [3] |
Deputy Chief of the Air Staff | |||||
1 | Air Vice Marshal | Subroto Mukerjee** | 1 February 1949 | 16 December 1952 | [4] |
2 | Aspy Merwan Engineer** | 17 December 1952 | 30 April 1958 | [7] | |
3 | Diwan Atma Ram Nanda | 1 May 1958 | 31 December 1962 | [8] | |
4 | Arjan Singh** | 1 January 1963 | 4 August 1963 | ||
5 | Ramaswamy Rajaram | 5 August 1963 | 30 September 1964 | [9] | |
6 | Minoo Merwan Engineer | 1 October 1964 | 28 February 1968 | [10] | |
7 | Air Marshal | 1 March 1968 | 4 August 1969 | ||
8 | Om Prakash Mehra** | 7 August 1969 | 28 February 1971 | [11] | |
9 | Hirendra Nath Chatterjee | 30 March 1971 | 31 March 1972 | [11] | |
10 | Yeshwant Vinayak Malse | 3 May 1972 | 31 March 1973 | [12] | |
11 | Hari Chand Dewan | 1 April 1973 | 18 October 1973 | [12] | |
12 | Sarosh Jehangir Dastur | 12 November 1973 | 27 June 1974 | [13] | |
13 | Devaiah Subia | 27 June 1974 | 31 March 1977 | ||
14 | Jafar Zaheer | 20 May 1977 | 23 August 1978 | ||
15 | Lal Singh Grewal | 24 August 1978 | 31 January 1980 | ||
16 | Malcolm Wollen | 16 April 1980 | 2 January 1981 | [14] | |
17 | Chandra Kant Viswanath Gole | 15 January 1981 | 30 June 1983 | [15] | |
18 | Kapil Dev Chadha | 8 July 1983 | 31 October 1984 | ||
19 | Johney William Greene | 1 January 1985 | 31 May 1986 | [16] | |
20 | Surinder Mehra** | 1 June 1986 | 28 February 1987 | [17] | |
21 | Prithi Singh | 1 March 1987 | 31 July 1988 | [18] | |
22 | Rajendra Kumar Dhawan | 1 August 1988 | 1 April 1990 | ||
23 | Brijesh Dhar Jayal | 2 April 1990 | 6 October 1991 | [19] | |
24 | Trilochan Singh Brar | 7 October 1991 | 30 April 1993 | ||
25 | Prabhat Kumar Varma | 1 May 1993 | 28 February 1994 | ||
26 | Sharadkumar Ramakrishna Deshpande | 1 March 1994 | 31 January 1996 | ||
27 | Srinivasapuram Krishnaswamy** | 1 February 1996 | 23 July 1996 | ||
28 | Man Mohan Singh Vasudeva | 24 July 1996 | 31 August 1997 | ||
29 | Syed Shahid Hussain Naqvi | 1 September 1997 | 30 September 1999 | [20] | |
30 | Satish Govind Inamdar | 1 October 1999 | 30 November 2000 | [21] | |
31 | Tej Mohan Asthana | 1 December 2000 | 17 March 2002 | ||
32 | Raghu Rajan | 5 June 2002 | 31 March 2004 | ||
33 | Jaspal Singh Gujral | 1 April 2004 | 30 April 2005 | ||
34 | Arvind Kumar Nagalia | 24 August 2005 | 28 February 2007 | [22] | |
35 | Norman Anil Kumar Browne** | 1 March 2007 | 31 May 2009 | [23] | |
36 | Nirdosh Vatsyayan Tyagi | 1 June 2009 | 31 January 2011 | [24] | |
37 | Ravi Kant Sharma | 1 February 2011 | 30 November 2012 | ||
38 | Subramanyam Sukumar | 1 December 2012 | 28 February 2014 | ||
39 | Sridharan Panicker Radha Krishnan Nair | 1 March 2014 | 30 April 2014 | ||
40 | Shyam Bihari Prasad Sinha | 1 May 2014 | 31 December 2015 | [25] | |
41 | Rakesh Kumar Singh Bhadauria** | 1 January 2016 | 28 February 2017 | ||
42 | Raghunath Nambiar | 1 March 2017 | 30 September 2018 | ||
43 | Vivek Ram Chaudhari** | 1 October 2018 | 30 September 2019 | [26] | |
44 | Sandeep Singh | 1 October 2019 | 30 April 2021 | [27] | |
45 | Suraj Kumar Jha | 1 May 2021 | 31 July 2021 | ||
46 | Narmdeshwar Tiwari | 1 October 2021 | 30 April 2023 | ||
47 | Ashutosh Dixit | 15 May 2023 | Incumbent | [2] |
** Went on to become Chief of the Air Staff
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