Lieutenant General Dhiraj Seth took over the reins of the Sudarshan Chakra Corps as the 26th GOC on Saturday. A second generation Army Officer, his father Lt Gen KM Seth, PVSM, AVSM also commanded the illustrious Sudarshan Chakra Corps from October 1993 to October 1994, a rare distinction for the family. An alumnus of NDA, Khadakwasla, Lieutenant General Dhiraj Seth was commissioned into 2nd Lancers (GH) on 20 December 1986. He has excelled in all courses of instruction, having been awarded the ‘Silver Centurion’ in the Young Officers Course and standing First in the Order of Merit in other important courses including Junior Command Course during his formative years of Army life. He went on to be awarded the Best all round student at the Defence Services Staff Course at Wellingtion. He has also attended the prestigious Defence Services Command and General Staff Course at Military College, Paris, France.

 

He is an alumnus of Higher Command Course, Mhow and the National Defence College at New Delhi. He has also qualified on the International Defence Acquisition Management Course at Naval Postgraduate School, Monterrey, California, USA. During his illustrious service, he has tenanted varied important Command, Staff and Instructional appointments to include tenures in various capacities. His command appointments include command of Skinner’s Horse, an Armoured Brigade and General Officer Commanding of a Rashtriya Rifles Force in an active Counter Insurgency environment in Jammu & Kashmir. The staff appointments tenanted by the General Officer include Brigade Major of an Independent Armoured Brigade, Assistant Military Secretary at Military Secretary Branch and Brigadier General Staff (Operations) of a Command on Western Front of the country.

 

He has been an Instructor and Assistant Adjutant at National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla and instructor at School of Armoured Warfare, Ahmednagar. He has also done a foreign tenure with UN Peacekeeping Mission at Angola (Africa) as Operations Officer during 1995-96. Prior to taking over the Sudarshan Chakra Corps, he was the Director General, Discipline Ceremonial and Welfare at Integrated Headquarters of Defence (Army) at Delhi.