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Number of officers in Indian naval force 2019 by type
The Indian defense forces held a strength of approximately ten thousand commissioned naval officers as of June 2019. Out of this, the authorized strength of officers was 11.56 thousand, whereas there was a shortage of about 1,545 officers that year.