[12] He then served as the Flag lieutenant to the first Indian Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Ram Dass Katari.

[15] He went on to establish and head the Naval Academy in Kochi, Kerala, for which he was awarded the Vishisht Seva Medal on 26 January 1971.

[22] Ramdas was promoted to acting Rear Admiral 7 April 1981 (substantive from 1 June 1981) and took over as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Operations) at NHQ.

[3] Ramdas was promoted to Vice Admiral on 1 April 1985 and appointed Controller of Warship Production & Acquisition (CWP&A).

After an eighteen-month stint as DCNS, Ramdas was appointed Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Naval Command.

In February 1989, he moved to Vizag as the Flag Officer Commanding-in-Chief Eastern Naval Command.

[27] Ramdas was appointed the next Chief of the Naval Staff, succeeding Admiral Jayant Ganpat Nadkarni.

[29] On 30 June 1993, with the superannuation of General S. F. Rodrigues, Ramdas took over as Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff Committee.

Kavita Ramdas is married to Zulfiqar Ahmad, a Pakistani national who is a peace activist.

They were part of the group which filed a PIL in the Supreme Court of India against the appointment of the then Lt. Gen. Bikram Singh for the post of Chief of Army Staff.

[35] The couple opposed the establishment of the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant in Tamil Nadu.