Platinum Jublee of AFCAO

Air Force Central Accounts Office (AFCAO) on 09 Aug 21 commemorate its Platinum Jubilee year. Air Chief Marshal RKS Bhadauria PVSM AVSM VM ADC, Chief of the Air Staff (CAS) attended the function in New Delhi.To mark the occasion, a ‘Special Day Cover’ was released in coordination with Army Postal Service. AFCAO, the apex accounting office of the Indian Air Force is responsible for centralised disbursement of Pay and Allowances of all ranks of IAF besides maintaining their Ledger Accounts, Provident Fund Accounts and release of other benefits till retirement. AFCAO has its origins as the ‘Royal Accts Base’ and was formed in 1945 at Bombay. It moved to Madras in 1946 and thereafter to New Delhi in 1947.