Any source for these plans around SF?
Theatre commands are meant to more effectively use resources across the three forces in a combined-arms sort of concept.
As of now, nothing exists on paper with regard to Indian Special Forces.
By the way, AFSOD isn't based on JSOC.
In the US military, JSOC and SOCOM are two different entities.
JSOC pulls in a whole lot of resources from CIA, NSA, 160th SOAR and the President's office. The superior intelligence, reconnaissance, and targeting capabilities are what make the command what it is.
The Tier-1 units are what make only one aspect of the whole command, which is execution.
Firstly, we don't really have a Tier system, nor do I think it is needed in the Indian context. Maybe just one Tier-1 unit will suffice for us for the purpose of conducting HVT Kill/Capture and Hostage Rescue outside the national borders.
If AFSOD is supposed to be that unit, that's great, but I don't think it is, because till now nothing is public knowledge.
With the intent and purpose of creating a JSOC type entity, till the time it has direct reporting to PMO and pulls in resources from IB, RAW, NTRO etc., just making a unit of military operators is more or less redundant for the purposes of creating a mechanism to execute missions of strategic importance for the nation.
Also, given the state of Bharatiya babudom, believe something exists only when it has been inaugurated in public.