In late 1947, the Chiefs of Staff of the Indian Armed Forces, following the recommendation of a 1946 committee headed by Field Marshal Claude Auchinleck, decided to initiate an action plan to commission a new Joint Services training academy. In the interim, they decided to conduct Joint Services training at IMA. The Academy was renamed the "Armed Forces Academy" and a new "Joint Services Wing" (JSW) was commissioned on 1 January 1949, while training of Army officers continued in the "Military Wing". The Academy was renamed as the "National Defence Academy" (NDA) on 1 January 1950, ahead of India becoming a Republic. In December 1954, when the new Joint Services training academy was established in Khadakwasla, near Pune, the NDA name along with the "Joint Services Wing" was transferred to Khadakwasla. The Academy in Dehradun was then rechristened as the "Military College". Brigadier M.M. Khanna, MVC was the first IMA alumni to be appointed Commandant of IMA at the end of 1956. In 1960, the founding name, "Indian Military Academy," was reinstated. On 10 December 1962, on the 30th anniversary of the Academy's inauguration, the second President of India, Dr. Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan, presented new colours to the Academy.