Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A ranar 8 ga Disamba, 1967, ya yi murabus daga kwamandan "Vikrant", ya mika shi ga Kyaftin EC Kuruvila. An daukaka Cursetji zuwa mukamin mukaddashin rear admiral kuma ya zama shugaban ma'aikata (COP) a hedikwatar sojan ruwa. Da ya gaji Rear Admiral K. R. Nair, ya yi aiki a matsayin COP na sama da shekaru biyu. A farkon shekarar 1970, an nada Cursetji mataimakin Shugaban Sojojin Ruwa na uku. An daukaka shi zuwa mukamin mukaddashin mataimakin Admiral kuma ya karbi ragamar daga abokin aikinsa Vice Admiral Nilakanta Krishnan a ranar 20 ga Fabrairu, 1970. A ranar 26 ga Janairu, 1971, an ba shi lambar yabo ta Param Vishisht Seva don fitaccen sabis na mafi girman tsari. Ya yi aiki a matsayin VCNS a lokacin yakin Indo-Pakistan na 1971
Ka yi haƙuri. A watan Agusta 1972, ya jagoranci wata tawaga zuwa Tarayyar Soviet don tattaunawa game da sayen jirgin ruwa da jirgin sama. An samu jirgin sama na binciken Ilyushin Il-38 a lokacin