{"id":181934,"date":"2023-12-01T09:45:44","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T04:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/?p=181934"},"modified":"2023-12-30T09:50:56","modified_gmt":"2023-12-30T04:20:56","slug":"air-marshal-praveen-keshav-vohra-takes-over-as-senior-air-staff-officer-western-air-command-iaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/air-marshal-praveen-keshav-vohra-takes-over-as-senior-air-staff-officer-western-air-command-iaf\/","title":{"rendered":"AIR MARSHAL PRAVEEN KESHAV VOHRA TAKES OVER AS\u00a0SENIOR AIR STAFF OFFICER, WESTERN AIR COMMAND, IAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"qtranxs-available-languages-message qtranxs-available-languages-message-pa\">\u0a2e\u0a3e\u0a2b\u0a3c \u0a15\u0a30\u0a28\u0a3e, \u0a07\u0a39 \u0a16\u0a2c\u0a30 \u0a24\u0a41\u0a39\u0a3e\u0a21\u0a40 \u0a2c\u0a47\u0a28\u0a24\u0a40 \u0a2d\u0a3e\u0a38\u0a3c\u0a3e \u0a35\u0a3f\u0a71\u0a1a \u0a09\u0a2a\u0a32\u0a2c\u0a27 \u0a28\u0a39\u0a40\u0a02 \u0a39\u0a48\u0964 <a href=\"https:\/\/newsmakhani.com\/en\/\">\u0a15\u0a3f\u0a30\u0a2a\u0a3e \u0a15\u0a30\u0a15\u0a47 \u0a07\u0a71\u0a25\u0a47 \u0a26\u0a47\u0a16\u0a4b\u0964<\/a><\/p><p><\/p>\n<div class=\"text-center\">\n<h3><strong><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">Delhi, <\/span><span style=\"color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, BlinkMacSystemFont, -apple-system, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 15px;\">01 DEC 2023\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<p>Air Marshal Praveen Keshav Vohra\u00a0has taken\u00a0over as the\u00a0Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO) of Western Air Command of the Indian Air Force on 01 December 2023.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Marshal is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy and was commissioned as a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force on 19 December 1987. He has served across the length and breadth of our nation having flown over 3500 Hr, primarily on Mig-21 variants and the Mig-29 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>A Category \u2018Aye\u2019 Qualified Flying Instructor, he, as a Wing Commander, commanded No. 47 Squadron, \u2018The Black Archers\u2019, of which he is now the Commodore Commandant.\u00a0\u00a0He was the Air Officer Commanding Air Force Station Halwara from 2014 to 2017. He was also one of the founder members of the Indian Air Force\u2019s Formation Aerobatic Team on the indigenous Kiran MK-II aircraft, the \u2018Suryakirans\u2019. He has held critical staff appointments of Director Operations, Air Assistant to the Chief of the Air Staff and Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Operations) at Air Headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>He is a graduate from the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and Centre of Defence and Strategic Studies, Canberra, Australia. Prior to taking over as Senior Air Staff Officer Western Air Command, he was the Air Officer Commanding Jammu &amp; Kashmir and Ladakh.<\/p>\n<p>The Air Officer is a recipient of \u2018Ati Vishist\u00a0Seva Medal\u2019 and \u2018Vayu Sena Medal\u2019\u00a0for his distinguished service to the nation. He is married to Mrs Navita Arjun Vohra and they are blessed with a son.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u0a2e\u0a3e\u0a2b\u0a3c \u0a15\u0a30\u0a28\u0a3e, \u0a07\u0a39 \u0a16\u0a2c\u0a30 \u0a24\u0a41\u0a39\u0a3e\u0a21\u0a40 \u0a2c\u0a47\u0a28\u0a24\u0a40 \u0a2d\u0a3e\u0a38\u0a3c\u0a3e \u0a35\u0a3f\u0a71\u0a1a \u0a09\u0a2a\u0a32\u0a2c\u0a27 \u0a28\u0a39\u0a40\u0a02 \u0a39\u0a48\u0964 \u0a15\u0a3f\u0a30\u0a2a\u0a3e \u0a15\u0a30\u0a15\u0a47 \u0a07\u0a71\u0a25\u0a47 \u0a26\u0a47\u0a16\u0a4b\u0964 Delhi, 01 DEC 2023\u00a0\u00a0 Air Marshal Praveen Keshav Vohra\u00a0has taken\u00a0over as the\u00a0Senior Air Staff Officer (SASO) of Western Air Command of the Indian Air Force on 01 December 2023. The Air Marshal is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,122],"tags":[21,99378,56731,99375,99376,99377],"class_list":{"0":"post-181934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national","7":"category-news","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-canberra","10":"tag-news-makhani","11":"tag-praveen-keshav","12":"tag-senior-air-staff-officer","13":"tag-strategic-studies"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsnarad.com\/pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}