Vice Admiral Atul Anand takes over as director general naval operations Vice Admiral Atul Anand, AVSM, VSM assumed charge as the Director General Naval Operations on 01 Apr 23. He was commissioned on January 1st, 1988, into the Indian Navy’s Executive Branch. He graduated from the National Defense College in New Delhi, the Defence Services Command and Staff College in Mirpur, Bangladesh, and the National Defense Academy’s 71st Course, Delta Squadron. In Hawaii, United States, at the Asia Pacific Centre for Security Studies, he also took the esteemed Advance Security Cooperation Course. His educational background includes a BSc, MPhil, and