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Indian army position
The Vice Chief of the Army Staff (VCOAS) is a statutory position in the Indian Armed Forces usually held by a three star lieutenant general. As the second highest-ranking officer to serve in the Indian Army, the VCOAS is the deputy professional head of the Indian Army and a senior adviser to the Minister of Defence. The office holder is usually the second most senior army officer unless the Chief of Defence is an army officer.
Eleven of the forty Vice Chiefs have gone on to head the Indian Army as the Chief of the Army Staff.
The current VCOAS is Lieutenant General N. S. Raja Subramani who assumed the office on 1st July 2024.
In the British Indian Army, the Chief of the General Staff (CGS) assisted the Commander-in-Chief, India.
After the Independence, the CGS remained the number two officer in the Indian Army below the Commander-in-Chief, India. and later the Chief of Army Staff. In January 1959, the post of Deputy Chief of the Army Staff (DCOAS) was created to replace the CGS at the Army HQ. The DCOAS was the second-in-command and was equivalent to an Army Commander (GOC-in-C).
In January 1965, the CGS post became the Vice Chief of the Army Staff, with the DCOAS becoming a PSO appointment.[1][2]
Lieutenant General P.P. Kumaramangalam took over as the first VCOAS.
Order of Precedence[edit]The VCOAS ranks at No. 23 on the Indian order of precedence, along with the Vice Chiefs of Staff of the Indian Navy and Indian Air Force and the Army Commanders (GOC-in-C), Naval Commanders (FOC-in-C) and Air Commanders (AOC-in-C).[3]
The VCOAS is at the Apex Pay grade (Grade 17), with a monthly pay of ₹225,000 (US$3,200).[4]
The Vice Chief of Army staff is appointed by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet, chaired by the Prime Minister, from among the senior general officers of the Army. Since the appointment is of Commander-in-Chief grade, the appointees are usually one of the Army Commanders of the seven commands.
Unlike the Chief of Army Staff, there is no fixed term nor term limit to the position of the VCOAS, although most of those appointed to the office have typically served for two or three year tenures.
The following table chronicles the appointees to the office of the Vice Chief of the Army Staff.
S.No. Portrait Name Assumed office Left office Unit of Commission COAS Ref 1 Lieutenant GeneralParamsiva Prabhakar Kumaramangalam, DSO MBE[1]
15 January 1965 7 June 1966 Regiment of Artillery Gen. J. N. Chaudhuri [5][6] 2 Lieutenant General 8 June 1966 22 November 1970 East Surrey Regiment Gen. Kumaramangalam [7] Field Marshal Manekshaw 3 Lieutenant GeneralHar Prasad, PVSM
23 November 1970 31 October 1973 3rd Cavalry [8] Gen. Bewoor 4 Lieutenant GeneralMohan Lal Thapan, PVSM
1 November 1973 31 July 1974 Jat Regiment [9] 5 Lieutenant GeneralNaveen Chand Rawlley, PVSM AVSM MC
1 August 1974 31 December 1975 12th Frontier Force [10] Gen. Raina 6 Lieutenant GeneralAbhi Manyu Vohra, PVSM
1 January 1976 19 January 1977 3rd Gorkha Rifles [11] 7 Lieutenant General 20 January 1977 31 May 1978 Regiment of Artillery [12] 8 Lieutenant GeneralStanley Leslie Menezes, PVSM SC
1 July 1978 31 January 1980 The Grenadiers Gen. Malhotra [13][14] 9 Lieutenant General 1 February 1980 6 July 1980 Punjab Regiment 10 Lieutenant General 7 July 1980 31 December 1982 6th Rajputana Rifles [15] Gen. Krishna Rao 11 Lieutenant General 1 January 1983 1 June 1983 Jat Regiment [16][17][18] 12 Lieutenant GeneralGajendra Singh Rawat, PVSM AVSM
5 August 1983 31 December 1984 5th Gorkha Rifles (FF) Gen. Vaidya [19][20] 13 Lieutenant GeneralKrishnaswamy Sundarji, PVSM[3]
13 February 1985 31 January 1986 2 Mahar Regiment [21][22] 14 Lieutenant General 1 February 1986 31 May 1987 Regiment of Artillery Gen. Sundarji 15 Lieutenant General 1 June 1987 31 August 1987 Regiment of Artillery [23] 16 Lieutenant GeneralSunith Francis Rodrigues, PVSM AVSM[4]
1 November 1987 20 April 1989 Regiment of Artillery [24] Gen. Sharma 17 Lieutenant General 15 May 1989 29 February 1992 Dogra Regiment [25] Gen. Rodrigues 18 Lieutenant GeneralVijai Singh, PVSM
1 March 1992 30 June 1993 8th Light Cavalry [26] 19 Lieutenant General 1 July 1993 30 June 1995 Regiment of Artillery Gen. Joshi Gen. S. R. Chowdhary 20 Lieutenant General 1 July 1995 31 July 1996 17th Horse (Poona Horse) [27] 21 Lieutenant GeneralVed Prakash Malik, PVSM AVSM[5]
1 August 1996 30 September 1997 Sikh Light Infantry 22 Lieutenant GeneralChandra Shekhar, PVSM AVSM ADC
1 October 1997 30 September 2000 4th Gorkha Rifles Gen. Malik [28] 23 Lieutenant General 1 October 2000 30 September 2001 Maratha Light Infantry Gen. Padmanabhan [29][30] 24 Lieutenant GeneralNirmal Chand Vij, PVSM UYSM AVSM[6]
1 October 2001 31 December 2002 Dogra Regiment [31] 25 Lieutenant GeneralShantonu Choudhry, PVSM AVSM VSM
1 January 2003 31 December 2004 Regiment of Artillery Gen. Vij [32][33] 26 Lieutenant GeneralBhupinder Singh Thakur, PVSM AVSM
15 January 2005 30 September 2005 Central India Horse [34][35] Gen. J. J. Singh 27 Lieutenant GeneralS. Pattabhiraman, PVSM AVSM SM VSM
1 October 2005 31 December 2006 Bombay Sappers [36][37] 28 Lieutenant GeneralDeepak Kapoor, PVSM AVSM SM VSM ADC[7]
1 January 2007 30 September 2007 Regiment of Artillery [38][39] 29 Lieutenant GeneralMilan Lalitkumar Naidu, PVSM AVSM YSM
1 October 2007 31 December 2008 Rajput Regiment Gen. Kapoor [40][41][42] 30 Lieutenant General 1 January 2008 30 September 2009 Bombay Sappers [43][44][45] 31 Lieutenant GeneralPrabodh Chandra Bhardwaj, PVSM AVSM VrC SC VSM
1 October 2009 30 November 2010 Parachute Regiment [46][47][48] Gen. V. K. Singh 32 Lieutenant GeneralArvinder Singh Lamba, PVSM AVSM
6 December 2010 30 September 2011 Regiment of Artillery [49][50] 33 Lieutenant GeneralSri Krishna Singh, PVSM UYSM AVSM
1 October 2011 31 December 2013 8th Gorkha Rifles [51] Gen. Bikram Singh 34 Lieutenant GeneralDalbir Singh Suhag, PVSM UYSM AVSM VSM ADC[8]
1 January 2014 31 July 2014 5th Gorkha Rifles (FF) [52] 35 Lieutenant General 1 August 2014 31 July 2015 9th Gorkha Rifles Gen. Dalbir Singh [53][54] 36 Lieutenant GeneralMan Mohan Singh Rai, PVSM AVSM VSM
1 August 2015 31 July 2016 Bombay Sappers [55] 37 Lieutenant GeneralBipin Rawat, PVSM UYSM AVSM YSM SM VSM ADC[9]
1 September 2016 31 December 2016 11th Gorkha Rifles [56] 38 Lieutenant GeneralSarath Chand, PVSM UYSM AVSM VSM
13 January 2017 31 May 2018 Garhwal Rifles Gen. Rawat [57] 39 Lieutenant GeneralDevraj Anbu, PVSM UYSM AVSM YSM SM ADC
1 June 2018 31 August 2019 Sikh Light Infantry [58] 40 Lieutenant GeneralManoj Mukund Naravane, PVSM AVSM SM VSM ADC[10]
1 September 2019 30 December 2019 Sikh Light Infantry [59] 41 Lieutenant GeneralSatinder Kumar Saini, PVSM AVSM YSM VSM ADC
25 January 2020 31 January 2021 Jat Regiment Gen. Naravane [60] 42 Lieutenant GeneralChandi Prasad Mohanty, PVSM AVSM SM VSM ADC
1 February 2021 31 January 2022 Rajput Regiment [61] 43 Lieutenant GeneralManoj Pande, PVSM AVSM VSM ADC [11]
1 February 2022 30 April 2022 Bombay Sappers [62] 44 Lieutenant GeneralBaggavalli Somashekar Raju PVSM UYSM AVSM YSM
1 May 2022 28 February 2023 Jat Regiment Gen. Pande [63] 45 Lieutenant GeneralM. V. Suchindra Kumar, PVSM AVSM YSM** VSM
1 March 2023 18 February 2024 Assam Regiment [64] 46 Lieutenant GeneralUpendra Dwivedi, PVSM AVSM ADC [12]
19 February 2024 30 June 2024 Jammu and Kashmir RIfles [65] 47 Lieutenant GeneralN. S. Raja Subramani, PVSM AVSM SM VSM
1 July 2024 Incumbent Garhwal Rifles Gen. Dwivedi [66]1.^ Later promoted to the post of General and the Chief of Army Staff.
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