Vice Admiral Biswajit Dasgupta,

AVSM Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM) is a military award of India given to recognize "distinguished service of an exceptional order" to all ranks of the armed forces. The award is a peacetime equivalent of Uttam Yuddh Seva Medal, which is a Wartime Di ...

, YSM, VSM is a serving Flag officer in the

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. He currently serves as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief,

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. 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

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(FOCEF) from 2016 to 2018.

Early life and education

Dasgupta graduated from the

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Naval career

Dasgupta was commissioned into the

in the Executive branch in 1985. He is a specialist in Navigation and Direction. In the early years of his career, he served as the Navigating Officer of the INS ''Bhavnagar'', the and the

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. He has served as the flag lieutenant to the

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. He also served briefly as the Deputy Squadron Commander of the Chukar Aerial Target Squadron. He has completed the staff course at the

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(DSCSC) in

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, the higher command course at the

Army War College, Mhow The Army War College, Dr.Ambedkar Nagar (A.W.C.) is a defence service training and research institution of the Indian Army located in Mhow, Madhya Pradesh. It develops and evaluates concepts and doctrines for tactics and logistics for the arm ...

. He has also attended the National Defence College,

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. Dasgupta has commanded the missile vessel , the as the commissioning

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of the

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and was the 20th commanding officer of the aircraft carrier . He has also served as the

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of the INS ''Astravahini''. Dasgupta has served as the Fleet Operations Officer of the

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. In his staff appointments, he has served as the Commander Work Up and as the Staff Officer (ND) at Naval HQ. In his instructional appointments, Dasgupta has served as

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at the

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and as the Officer-in-Charge Navigation and Direction School. As a

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, Dasgupta served as the Naval Assistant (NA) to the Chief of the Naval Staff.

Flag Rank

On promotion to flag rank, Dasgupta took over as the Chief Staff Officer (Operations) (CSO Ops) at the

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. As the CSO Ops, he played a pivotal role in planning and conducting Operation Neer. He also led the planning and successful execution of

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during the

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. For these two operations, he was awarded the

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(YSM). The citation for the YSM reads as follows: On 14 October 2016, Dasgupta assumed the office of

, taking over from Rear Admiral S. V. Bhokare. For his command of the

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, Dasgupta was awarded the

Ati Vishisht Seva Medal Ati Vishisht Seva Medal (AVSM) is a military award of India given to recognize "distinguished service of an exceptional order" to all ranks of the armed forces. The award is a peacetime equivalent of Uttam Yuddh Seva Medal, which is a Wartime Di ...

on 26 January 2018. He handed over charge of the

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Dinesh K Tripathi on 15 January 2018. On 12 June 2019, on promotion to the rank of Vice Admiral, Dasgupta took over as the Controller of Personnel Services at Naval Headquarters. On 12 June 2020, he took over as the Chief of Staff of the

from Vice Admiral Satish Namdeo Ghormade. He took over the reins as Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief,

succeeding Vice Admiral

Ajendra Bahadur Singh Vice Admiral Ajendra Bahadur Singh, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, ADC is a flag officer of the Indian Navy. He is currently the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief (FOC-in-C), Western Naval Command since 29 November 2021 succeeding Vice Admiral R. Hari Kuma ...

on 1 December 2021.

Awards and decorations

References

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Early life and education

Naval career

Flag Rank

Awards and decorations

See also

References