Former Director General:Indian Coast Guard

Director General


Vice Admiral VA Kamath, PVSM 19 Aug 1978 to 31 Mar 1980	Vice Admiral Swaraj Prakash, PVSM, MVC, AVSM 01 Apr 1980 to 31 Mar 1982	Vice Admiral MR Schunkar, PVSM, AVSM 01 Apr 1982 to 31 Mar 1984

Vice Admiral S Jain, PVSM, NM 19 Jun 1984 to 14 Feb 1985	Vice Admiral IJS Khurana, PVSM, ADC 15 Feb 1985 to 30 Jun 1987	Vice Admiral H Johnson, PVSM, VSM 10 Jul 1987 to 27 Jun 1990

Vice Admiral SW Lakhar, PVSM, NM, VSM 28 Jun 1990 to 31 Aug 1992	Vice Admiral KK Kohli, AVSM 05 Oct 1992 to 03 Jan 1995	Vice Admiral PJ Jacob, AVSM, VSM 04 Jan 1995 to 17 Nov 1996

Vice Admiral RN Ganesh, AVSM, NM 18 Nov 1996 to 04 Mar 1999	Vice Admiral C DeSilva, PVSM, AVSM 05 Mar 1999 to 06 Mar 2001	Director General Rameshwar Singh, PTM 07 Mar 2001 to 29 Sep 2001

Vice Admiral OP Bansal, AVSM, VSM 30 Sep 2001 to 12 Jan 2003	Vice Admiral Sureesh Mehta, AVSM 13 Jan 2003 to 19 Aug 2004	Vice Admiral AK Singh, PVSM,AVSM, NM 20 Aug 2004 to 24 Feb 2006

Director General Dr. P Paleri, PTM, TM 28 Feb 2006 to 31 Aug 2006	Vice Admiral RF Contractor, AVSM, NM 31 Aug 2006 to 30 Nov 08	Vice Admiral Anil Chopra AVSM, 01 Dec 2008 to 29 Oct 2011

Vice Admiral MP Muralidharan AVSM, NM 01 Nov 2011 to 28 Feb 2013	Vice Admiral Anurag G Thapliyal, AVSM & Bar 01 March 2013 to 31 Jan 2015	Vice Admiral HCS Bisht, AVSM 01 Feb 2015 to 28 Feb 16

Director General Rajendra Singh,PTM,TM 29 Feb 2016 to 30 Jun 2019	Director General K Natarajan, PVSM, PTM, TM 01 Jul 2019 to 31 Dec 2021