Sanjay Vatsayan


Sanjay Vatsayan, NM is a serving Flag officer in the Indian Navy. He currently serves as the Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet. He earlier served as the Assistant Chief of Naval Staff.

Early Life & Education

Vatsayan graduated from the National Defence Academy, Pune in 1986.

Naval career

Vatsayan was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 1 January 1988. He is a specialist in Gunnery and missile systems. He has completed the staff course at the Defence Services Staff College in Wellington Cantonment in 2003 and the higher command course at the Naval War College, Goa in 2010. He has also attended the National Defence College, New Delhi in 2014.
He has served on the Samar-class offshore patrol vessel ICGS Sangram and was part of the commissioning crew of the Delhi-class Guided missile destroyer.
Vatsayan has commanded the Veer-class missile vessels and, and the Khukri-class corvette. He was also the Commissioning Commanding Officer of the indigenously-built Shivalik-class Guided missile frigate.
Vatsayan, in his staff appointments, has served as the Joint Director of Personnel, Director of Personnel. He also served as the Director Naval Plans and the Principal Director Naval Plans, all at Naval HQ.
On promotion to Flag Rank, Singh took over as the Assistant Chief of Naval Staff.
On 10 February 2020, he assumed the office of the Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet, taking over from Rear Admiral Suraj Berry who commanded the Eastern Fleet from 2019 to 2020.