Air Marshal Ajay Kumar Arora, who has held key command and staff appointments in his illustrious career spanning over 35 years, took over as the Air Officer-in-Charge Maintenance of the Indian Air Force (IAF) on Friday, officials said.

• The Air Marshal laid a wreath at the National War Memorial in honour of the armed forces personnel who made the supreme sacrifice for the nation.
• Air Marshal Arora was commissioned in the aeronautical engineering stream of the IAF in August 1986, the defence ministry said in a statement.
• He is a graduate of the Air Force Technical College; Air Command and Staff College, the US, and College of Defence Management, Secunderabad. An electronics and communication engineer by qualification, he is also an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur and has a doctorate degree in management from the University of Pune.