Chief of Materiel (India)
The Chief of Materiel (COM) is a senior Indian Navy appointment in the rank of Vice-Admiral. As a Principal Staff Officer (PSO) at Naval Headquarters (NHQ), the COM is responsible for all aspects of maintenance management and life-cycle support of all engineering, electrical, electronic, weapons, sensors, and IT-related systems for ships and submarines, along with responsibility for the creation of major marine and technical infrastructure. The present COM is Vice-Admiral S. R. Sarma, who succeeded Vice-Admiral G. S. Pabby on 1 September 2020.[1]
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Incumbent S. R. Sarma since 1 September 2020 | |
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Type | Principal Staff Officer |
Abbreviation | COM |
Reports to | Chief of the Naval Staff |
Seat | Naval Headquarters, New Delhi |
Appointees
S.No. | Name | Assumed Office | Left Office | Notes |
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1 | Captain Bhaskar Sadashiv Soman | February 1949 | October 1949 | While also serving as Chief of Administration.[2][3] |
2 | Captain S. G. Karmarkar | October 1949 | October 1950 | While also serving as Chief of Administration.[3][4] |
3 | Captain G. S. Kapoor | October 1950 | 1951? | While also serving as Chief of Administration.[5] |
4 | Captain Albert Henry Fitch Hunt | 1951? | 1952 | Seconded from the Royal Navy.[6] |
5 | Captain Ian Frederick Montague Newnham | 1952? | July 1954 | Seconded from the Royal Navy. Last British appointee.[7] |
6 | Commodore Daya Shankar DSC | July 1954 [n 1] | December 1957 | First Indian appointee.[7] |
7 | Commodore B. N. Lele | December 1957 | January 1962 | [9] |
8 | Commodore Sardarilal Mathradas Nanda | February 1962 | May 1962 | [10] |
Commodore C. L. Bhandari | May 1962 | 1963 | Officiating.[11] | |
9 | Commodore Sourendra Nath Kohli | 1963 | January 1965 | [12] |
10 | Rear Admiral P. S. Mahindroo | February 1965[n 2] | January 1968 | [13][14][15] |
11 | Rear Admiral Vasudeva Anant Kamath | December 1967 | December 1968 | [15] |
12 | Rear Admiral Kamalakar Laxman Kulkarni | December 1968 | March 1973 | [16][17] |
13 | Vice Admiral Rajendra Tandon PVSM, AVSM | April 1973 [n 3] | 30 June 1976 | [18][19] |
14 | Vice Admiral J. T. G. Pereira PVSM, AVSM | 1 July 1976 | 30 June 1979 | [20][21] |
15 | Vice Admiral A. K. Bhatia PVSM, AVSM, VSM | 1 July 1979 | 31 January 1983 | [21][22] |
16 | Vice Admiral Narendra Bhalla AVSM | 1 February 1983 | [23] | |
17 | Vice Admiral L.R. Mehta | February 1986 | [24] | |
18 | Vice Admiral S.B.N. Singh PVSM, AVSM | 1 March 1986 | 1 April 1988 | [25] |
19 | Vice Admiral I. C. Rao PVSM, AVSM | 1 April 1988 | 31 March 1993 | [26] |
20 | Vice Admiral Mauli Bhushan Ghosh PVSM, AVSM, NM | 1 April 1993 | 31 January 1994 | [27][28] |
21 | Vice Admiral A.V.R. Narayana Rao PVSM, AVSM, VSM | 28 March 1994 | 31 August 1995 | [29] |
22 | Vice Admiral Adolph Britto PVSM, AVSM, VSM | 31 August 1995 | 30 April 1997 | [30][31] |
23 | Vice Admiral A. S. R. Krishnan PVSM, AVSM, VSM | April 1997 | 2001 | [32] |
24 | Vice Admiral Parvesh Jaitly | July 2001 | 2006 | [33] |
25 | Vice Admiral D. S. P. Verma AVSM, VSM | 2006 | 1 December 2007 | [34] |
26 | Vice Admiral Birinder Singh Randhawa AVSM, VSM | 1 December 2007 | December 2008 | [34] |
27 | Vice Admiral Dilip Deshpande AVSM, VSM | December 2008 | 31 October 2009 | [35] |
28 | Vice Admiral Ganesh Mahadevan AVSM, VSM | 31 October 2009 | 30 April 2012 | [35] |
29 | Vice Admiral B. Kannan AVSM, VSM | 30 April 2012 | [36] | |
30 | Vice Admiral N. N. Kumar AVSM, VSM | 31 March 2014 | [37] | |
31 | Vice Admiral K. R. Nair AVSM, VSM | 31 March 2014 | 2015 | [37] |
32 | Vice Admiral A. V. Subhedar PVSM, AVSM, VSM | 31 October 2016 | ||
33 | Vice Admiral G. S. Pabby PVSM, AVSM, VSM | 31 October 2016 | 1 September 2020 | [38] |
34 | Vice Admiral S. R. Sarma AVSM, VSM | 1 September 2020 | Incumbent | [1] |
Notes
References
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