{"id":13845,"date":"2025-12-11T14:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=13845"},"modified":"2025-12-11T14:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T09:14:12","slug":"vice-admiral-sanjay-sadhu-avsm-nm-assumes-charge-as-controller-of-warship-production-acquisition-cwpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/?p=13845","title":{"rendered":"VICE ADMIRAL SANJAY SADHU, AVSM, NM, ASSUMES CHARGE AS CONTROLLER OF WARSHIP PRODUCTION &#038; ACQUISITION (CWP&#038;A)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"text-center event-heading-background\">\n<h2 id=\"Titleh2\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>VICE ADMIRAL SANJAY SADHU, AVSM, NM, ASSUMES CHARGE AS CONTROLLER OF WARSHIP PRODUCTION &amp; ACQUISITION (CWP&amp;A)<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"Subtitleh3\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"PrDateTime\" class=\"ReleaseDateSubHeaddateTime text-center pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Posted On: 30 NOV 2025 11:55AM by PIB Delhi<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pt20\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Vice Admiral Sanjay Sadhu, AVSM, NM assumed charge as the Controller of Warship Production &amp; Acquisition on\u00a028 Nov 2025.\u00a0Commissioned in the Indian Navy in 1987, the VAdm is a Post Graduate in Mechanical Engineering and MPhil in Defence and Strategic Studies.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>During his illustrious career spanning more than 38 years, the Flag Officer has tenanted several key Operational, Staff, and Yard appointments. He has served onboard the Aircraft Carrier\u00a0INS Viraat\u00a0in different capacities and onboard front line frigates\u00a0INS Brahmaputra\u00a0and\u00a0INS Dunagiri.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>Prior to his elevation to Flag Rank, he held many important assignments including Additional General Manager (Production) at Naval Dockyard (Mumbai), Commodore Superintendent of Naval Ship Repair Yard (Karwar), and Principal Director Marine Engineering at Naval Headquarters, New Delhi.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>He was also involved in the modernisation and acquisition of the Aircraft Carrier Vikramaditya from Russia,\u00a0in various capacities in the Project, including Senior Naval Engineer Overseer at Warship Overseeing Team (Severodvinsk), Russia, Director Aircraft Carrier Projects, and Principal Director Aircraft Carrier Projects at Naval Headquarters, New Delhi.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>On elevation to Flag Rank, he served as Additional Director General Warship Design Bureau (Submarine Design Group), Chief Staff Officer (Technical), Eastern Naval Command, Admiral Superintendent Dockyard (Visakhapatnam), and Chief Staff Officer (Technical), Western Naval Command.\u00a0The Flag Officer has the rare distinction of heading two major Dockyards on both the West and East Coasts and being the Chief Staff Officer (Technical) of both the Western and Eastern Naval Command.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>He is an alumnus of Naval War College, Goa. For his distinguished service of a high order, the Flag Officer has been awarded the prestigious\u00a0<em>Ati Vishisht Seva<\/em>\u00a0Medal\u00a0and\u00a0the\u00a0<em>Nausena<\/em>\u00a0Medal\u00a0by the President of India.\u00a0 Prior to assuming charge as CWP&amp;A, the Flag Officer served as the Programme Director, Advanced Technology Vessel Programme at New Delhi.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>He has taken charge from Vice Admiral Rajaram Swaminathan, AVSM, NM, who is superannuating on 30 Nov 25 after 38 years of distinguished service to the nation. During the tenure of VAdm Rajaram Swaminathan, eight ships were commissioned into the Indian Navy.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.pib.gov.in\/WriteReadData\/userfiles\/image\/FLAGOFFICERNGMZ.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VICE ADMIRAL SANJAY SADHU, AVSM, NM, ASSUMES CHARGE AS CONTROLLER OF WARSHIP PRODUCTION &amp; ACQUISITION (CWP&amp;A) Posted On: 30 NOV 2025 11:55AM by PIB Delhi Vice Admiral Sanjay Sadhu, AVSM, NM assumed charge as the Controller of Warship Production &amp; Acquisition on\u00a028 Nov 2025.\u00a0Commissioned in the Indian Navy in 1987, the VAdm is a Post &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13847,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13845\/revisions\/13847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theeducationoverview.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}