Vice Admiral Sanjay Vatsayan, AVSM, NM assumed charge as the 47th Vice Chief of the Naval Staff (VCNS) on August 1, 2025, succeeding Vice Admiral Sanjay Jasjit Singh. The change of leadership marks a significant step in the Navy’s ongoing modernization and strategic development efforts.
A highly decorated officer with over three decades of distinguished service, Vice Admiral Vatsayan is a specialist in Gunnery and Missile Warfare and has held numerous key operational and policy-making positions. He is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy (71st course) and was commissioned into the Indian Navy on January 1, 1988.
As part of the assumption ceremony, Vice Admiral Vatsayan laid a wreath at the National War Memorial, paying tribute to India’s fallen heroes.