Which appointment did Air Marshal Mehtab Singh Deswal hold immediately before taking over Eastern Air Command?
- A.Vice Chief of the Air Staff
- B.Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters South Western Air Command
- C.Air Attache at the Embassy of India in Pakistan
- D.Director General (Weapon Systems) at Air Headquarters
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Explanation
The correct answer is Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters South Western Air Command. That was the post he held just before moving to the Eastern Air Command as its Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief. Option C and option D are both posts from his earlier career rather than the one he left now: he served as Air Attache at the Indian Embassy in Pakistan and later as Director General for Weapon Systems at Air Headquarters, besides commanding a fighter squadron and serving as Air Officer Commanding of two flying bases. Option A is wrong because Vice Chief of the Air Staff is a post held by the officer who has just become Chief of the Air Staff, not by Air Marshal Deswal. The question is a reminder to read a service record in order, since an examination paper often lists several genuine posts and asks for the latest one.
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Practice Questions
Who assumed charge as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief of Eastern Air Command on 1 November 2026?
- A.Air Marshal Mehtab Singh Deswal
- B.Air Chief Marshal Ashutosh Dixit
- C.Air Marshal Paritosh Ahmed
- D.Air Marshal Dinesh Ganvir
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He took over the Eastern Air Command of the Indian Air Force as its Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief, moving from the appointment of Senior Air Staff Officer at the headquarters of South Western Air Command.
Read the full explanation →In which year was Air Marshal Mehtab Singh Deswal commissioned into the flying branch of the Indian Air Force?
- A.1985
- B.1989
- C.1993
- D.1997
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He joined the flying branch of the Indian Air Force as a fighter pilot on the fourteenth of June that year, which means a career of more than three and a half decades before taking over a command.
Read the full explanation →How many Geological Reports and Geological Memorandums were handed over during his tenure as National Mission Head-II?
- A.259 reports and 277 memorandums
- B.359 reports and 377 memorandums
- C.459 reports and 477 memorandums
- D.202 reports and 56 memorandums
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As National Mission Head-II, Ganvir planned and monitored multidisciplinary field programmes and nationwide mineral exploration, and the Ministry credits that period with the handover of 359 Geological Reports and 377 Geological Memorandums, along with a five-fold jump in investigations for critical and strategic minerals.
Read the full explanation →Who has assumed charge as the 55th Director General of the Geological Survey of India?
- A.Dinesh Vitthalrao Ganvir
- B.Prajith Kumar M. V.
- C.Chandra Bhushan Kumar
- D.Ramesh Krishnamurthi
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He has assumed charge as the 55th Director General of the Geological Survey of India, which works as an attached office of the Ministry of Mines, bringing more than three decades of experience in geological investigation, mineral exploration, engineering geology and institutional leadership.
Read the full explanation →The Geological Survey of India is an attached office of which Union ministry?
- A.Ministry of Earth Sciences
- B.Ministry of Coal
- C.Ministry of Mines
- D.Ministry of Science and Technology
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The Geological Survey of India is described as an attached office of the Ministry of Mines, Government of India, and it is in that ministry’s mandate that the new Director General placed his priorities: integrated geoscientific investigation, advanced mineral prospectivity mapping and the generation of auction-ready mineral blocks.
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