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 | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | AVSM, NM | [3] |
Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command | Rajesh Pendharkar | ![]() | AVSM, VSM | [4] | |
Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Naval Command | Vennam Srinivas | ![]() | AVSM, NM | [5] | |
Commander-in-Chief Strategic Forces Command* | Suraj Berry | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | 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 | Ravindra Kumar | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | AVSM, NM | [27] |
Chief of Staff Eastern Naval Command | Sameer Saxena | ![]() | AVSM, NM | [28] | |
Chief of Staff Southern Naval Command | Rear Admiral | Upal Kundu | ![]() | [29] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Commandant National Defence Academy | Vice Admiral | Gurcharan Singh | ![]() | AVSM, NM | [30] |
Commandant Indian Naval Academy | Vineet McCarty | ![]() | AVSM | [31] [32] | |
Commandant Naval War College, Goa | Rear Admiral | Arjun Dev Nair | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | [37] | ||
Principal, Indian Naval Academy | Rajvir Singh | ![]() | [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) | |||||
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 |
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Chief Staff Officer (Ops) Western Naval Command | Rear Admiral | Vidhyadhar Harke | ![]() | VSM | [60] |
Chief Staff Officer (Ops) Eastern Naval Command | Shantanu Jha | ![]() | NM | [61] | |
Chief Staff Officer (Training) Southern Naval Command | Satish Shenai | ![]() | NM | [62] | |
Chief Staff Officer (Tech) Western Naval Command | R. Adhisrinivasan | ![]() | [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 | ![]() | 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 | ![]() | [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) | |||||
Project Director (Operations & Training) HQ Advanced Tactical Vehicle Project | |||||
Project Director (Ship Construction) HQ Advanced Tactical Vehicle Project | M. Nirmal Menon | VSM | [78] | ||
Director General Naval Armament Inspection | Brijesh Vashishta | [79] |
Post | Rank | Name | Photo | Decorations | Reference |
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Director General Hospital Services (Armed Forces) | Surgeon Vice Admiral | Anupam Kapur | NM | [80] | |
Command Medical Officer, Western Naval Command | Surgeon Rear Admiral | ||||
Command Medical Officer Eastern Naval Command | Ajit Gopinath | VSM | [81] | ||
Commanding Officer, INHS Asvini | Dilip Raghavan | [82] | |||
Command Medical Officer, Southern Naval Command | Dilip Raghavan | [83] | |||
Additional Director General Medical Services (Navy) | Manish Honwad | [84] |
The Western Naval Command is one of the three command–level formations of the Indian Navy. It is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. As the senior–most of the three formations, the command is responsible for the all naval forces in the Arabian Sea and western parts of the Indian Ocean and the naval establishments on the west coast of India.
The Southern Naval Command is one of the three, command-level formations of the Indian Navy. Southern Naval Command is the largest naval command in India and it has its headquarters in Kochi, Kerala at INS Venduruthy. It is the Training Command of the Indian Navy.
Vice Admiral Ajit Kumar PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC is a retired Indian Navy Admiral. He served as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C) Western Naval Command. He assumed the position on 31 January 2019 after Vice Admiral Girish Luthra's retirement and superannuated on 28 February 2021. Prior to this appointment, he served as Vice Chief of Naval Staff.
Admiral Radhakrishnan Hari Kumar is retired flag officer in the Indian Navy. He served as 25th Chief of the Naval Staff (CNS). Previously, he served as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Western Naval Command. In his prior appointments, he served as the Chief of Integrated Defence Staff, Chief of Personnel, Controller Personnel Services, the Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet, Flag Officer Sea Training and the Chief of the Staff of the Western Naval Command. He was the Commandant of the Naval War College, Goa and served as a naval advisor to the government of Seychelles. He is an alumnus of National Defence Academy, the Naval War College, the Army War College, Mhow and the Royal College of Defence Studies.
Vice Admiral Suraj Berry, AVSM, NM, VSM is a serving Flag officer in the Indian Navy. He currently serves as the Commander-in-Chief, Strategic Forces Command. He previously served as the Chief of Personnel, as the Controller of Personnel Services and as Chief of Staff of the Andaman and Nicobar Command. He has also commanded the Eastern Fleet and was the Commissioning Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya.
The Commandant of the Indian Naval Academy is the head and in-charge of all the functioning of the Indian Naval Academy. The commandant of the academy is a three-star rank officer holding the rank of vice admiral. He is supported by the deputy commandant, a two-star appointment and the heads of the Academic Wing, Training Wing and the Admin wing. The current Commandant is Vice Admiral Vineet McCarty who took over in January 2024.
Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet (FOCWF) is the title of the Indian Navy Officer who commands the Western Fleet, headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The FOCWF is a two star admiral holding the rank of Rear Admiral. The appointment is considered to be an important and a coveted one. The Current FOCWF is Rear Admiral C. R. Praveen Nair, who assumed office on 10 November 2023.
Vice Admiral Krishna Swaminathan, AVSM, VSM is a serving Flag officer in the Indian Navy. He currently serves as the Vice Chief of Naval Staff. He took over as the 39th Vice Chief of Naval staff on 1 May 2024. He previously served as Chief of Personnel. He earlier served as the Controller of Personnel Services, Chief of Staff of the Western Naval Command, Flag Officer Defence Advisory Group (FODAG), Flag Officer Commanding Western Fleet (FOCWF) and Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST). He was the second Commanding Officer of the aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya.
Vice Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh, AVSM, NM is a serving flag officer in the Indian Navy. He currently serves as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Western Naval Command. He previously served as the 37th Vice Chief of the Naval Staff and as the Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Operations) at IDS HQ.
Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet (FOCEF) is the title of the Indian Navy Officer who commands the Eastern Fleet, headquartered in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh. The FOCEF is a Two Star Officer holding the rank of Rear Admiral. The Current FOCEF is Rear Admiral Rajesh Dhankhar, who assumed office on 10 November 2023.
Vice Admiral Makarand Aravind Hampiholi, PVSM, AVSM, NM is a former flag officer in the Indian Navy. He last served as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Southern Naval Command. Previously, he served as the Commandant of Indian Naval Academy and served as the Director General Naval Operations (DGNO) at Naval headquarters.
Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, AVSM, NM is a serving Flag officer in the Indian Navy. He currently serves as the Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Operations). He previously served as the Chief of Staff, Eastern Naval Command, as the Deputy Commandant of the National Defence Academy, and as the Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet.
Vice Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta, PVSM, AVSM, YSM, VSM is a retired officer of the Indian Navy. He served as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief, Eastern Naval Command. He had earlier served as the Chief of Staff of ENC from 2020 to 2021, Controller of Personnel Services at Naval HQ from 2019 to 2020 and as the Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet (FOCEF) from 2016 to 2018.
Vice Admiral Rajesh Pendharkar, AVSM, VSM is a serving Flag officer in the Indian Navy. He currently serves as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command. He earlier served as the Deputy Chief of the Integrated Defence Staff (Operations) at IDS HQ.
The Flag Officer Sea Training (FOST) is a training organisation in the Indian Navy. FOST is the authority responsible for the operational sea training of all personnel of Indian Naval and Coast Guard ships and submarines. The organisation was instituted in 1992 and is the common authority to maintain battle efficiency standards. It also provides training to navies and maritime security forces of friendly foreign countries (FFC). Headquartered in Kochi, the FOST operates under the control of the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Naval Command.
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Vice Admiral Sandeep Naithani, PVSM, AVSM, VSM is a former Flag officer in the Indian Navy. He last served as the Chief of Materiel. He has earlier served as the Controller Warship Production and Acquisition from 2020 to 2021 and as the Admiral Superintendent Naval Dockyard (Mumbai) in 2018.
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Flag Officer Commanding Gujarat, Daman & Diu Naval Area (FOGNA) is a senior appointment in the Indian Navy. One of the five Area Commanders of the Indian Navy, the FOGNA is a two star admiral holding the rank of Rear Admiral. The FOGNA is responsible for the operations and administration of all units and establishments in Gujarat and Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu. The Current FOGNA is Rear Admiral Anil Jaggi, who assumed office on 1 August 2023.
Flag Officer Commanding Maharashtra Naval Area (FOMA) is a senior appointment in the Indian Navy. One of the five Area Commanders of the Indian Navy, the FOMA is a two star admiral holding the rank of Rear Admiral. The FOMA has operational control of the flotilla and forces assigned for the local naval defence of all ports in Maharashtra and the 22nd Missile Vessel Squadron. Apart from this, the FOMA is responsible for the operations and administration of all units and establishments in Maharashtra. The current FOMA is Rear Admiral Manish Chadha, who assumed office on 10 November 2023.
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