Commodore Sanjiv Issar took over as the Naval Officer-in-Charge, Andhra Pradesh at a ceremonial parade held at Naval Dockyard on Monday.
A specialist in the field of Gunnery, the Commodore has held a number of prestigious appointments both afloat and ashore. His afloat appointments include tenures onboard INS Tir, INS Kirpan as Commanding Officers and in Western Fleet as Fleet Gunnery Officer.
Prior to the present appointment he had been the Defence Adviser, Embassy of India, Santiago, Chile. An alumnus of the Naval Warfare College (Karanja, Mumbai) and Defence Services Staff College (Wellington), he was commissioned in to the Navy in January 1987. He has also commanded INS Dronacharya, the Gunnery school of the Navy at Kochi.
The outgoing Naval Officer-in-Charge, Andhra Pradesh, Commodore K.A. Bopanna, after a successful tenure, proceeds to INS Circars at Visakhapatnam as Commanding Officer.
