Dhiraj Seth

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Lieutenant General
Dhiraj Seth
AVSM
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General Officer Commanding-in-Chief South Western Command
Assumed office
1 November 2023

Lieutenant General Dhiraj Seth AVSM [1] is a serving general officer of the Indian Army. He currently serves as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief of the South Western Command. [2] He previously held the appointment of General Officer commanding Delhi Area, prior to that he was General Officer Commanding XXI Corps. [3]

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Military career

Seth is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla, Pune and the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. He was commissioned in the 2nd Lancers (Gardner's Horse) in December 1986. [4] Awarded the ‘Silver Centurion’ in the Young Officers Course, he stood first in the order of merit in several courses he attended, including the Junior Command Course. [4]

He is an alumnus of the Defence Services Staff College, where he was recognised as the best all-round student in his course, [4] and attended the prestigious Defence Services Command and General Staff Course at the Collège interarmées de Défense in France in 2006. [5] Seth is also a graduate of the Higher Command Course at the Army War College, Mhow, and the National Defence College at New Delhi. He has also qualified on the International Defence Acquisition Management Course at the Naval Postgraduate School in the United States. [4]

Seth has commanded Skinner's Horse, 98 Armoured Brigade and was General Officer Commanding (GOC) of a Rashtriya Rifles force in Jammu & Kashmir. [4] [6] He has served as brigade major of an independent armoured brigade, as Assistant Military Secretary in the Military Secretary Branch and as Brigadier General Staff (Operations) of the South Western Command. [7] [4] Seth also served as an instructor and assistant adjutant at the National Defence Academy (NDA), and as an instructor at the School of Armoured Warfare, Ahmednagar. In 1995–1996, Seth served with the United Nations Angola Verification Mission III as operations officer. [7]

Seth served as Director General (Discipline, Ceremonial and Welfare) at Integrated Defence Headquarters (Army) in Delhi before assuming command of XXI Corps on 31 July 2021. [4] He was subsequently appointed GOC Delhi Area in 2022, before his appointment as GOC-in-C South Western Command in 2023. [7]

Personal life

Seth is a son of Lieutenant-General Krishna Mohan Seth (Retd.), who retired as the Adjutant-General of the Indian Army in 1997, and who also commanded XXI Strike Corps from October 1992 to October 1994 and III Corps from October 1994 to October 1995. Following his retirement from the Army, he successively served as Governor of Tripura from 2000 to 2003, and as Governor of Chhattisgarh from 2003 to 2007. [6]

Awards and decorations

Ati Vishisht Seva Medal ribbon.svg IND Special Service Medal Ribbon.svg IND Samanya Seva medal.svg IND Sainya Seva Medal Ribbon.svg
IND High Altitude Medal Ribbon.svg IND Videsh Seva Medal Ribbon.svg 75yearmedal.svg IND 50th Anniversary Independence medal.svg
IND 30 Years Long Service Ribbon.svg IND 20YearsServiceMedalRibbon.svg IND 9YearsServiceMedalRibbon.svg United Nations Medal, Operation in Somalia ribbon.svg
Ati Vishisht Seva Medal Samanya Seva Medal Special Service Medal Sainya Seva Medal
High Altitude Medal Videsh Seva Medal 75th Independence Anniversary Medal 50th Independence Anniversary Medal
30 Years Long Service Medal 20 Years Long Service Medal 9 Years Long Service Medal UNOSOM

Dates of rank

InsigniaRankComponentDate of rank
Second Lieutenant of the Indian Army.svg Second Lieutenant Indian Army 20 December 1986 [8]
Lieutenant of the Indian Army.svg Lieutenant Indian Army 20 December 1988 [9]
Captain of the Indian Army.svg Captain Indian Army 20 December 1991 [10]
Major of the Indian Army.svg Major Indian Army 20 December 1997 [11]
Lieutenant Colonel of the Indian Army.svg Lieutenant-Colonel Indian Army 16 December 2004 [12]
Colonel of the Indian Army.svg Colonel Indian Army 1 May 2007 [13]
Brigadier of the Indian Army.svg Brigadier Indian Army 24 May 2013 (acting)
9 September 2013 (substantive, with seniority from 24 June 2011) [14]
Major General of the Indian Army.svg Major General Indian Army 1 December 2018 (seniority from 1 February 2017) [15]
Lieutenant General of the Indian Army.svg Lieutenant-General Indian Army 2021

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Military offices
Preceded by General Officer Commanding-in-Chief South Western Command
1 November 2023–present		Succeeded by
Incumbent
Preceded by
Atulya Solankey
 General Officer Commanding XXI Corps
31 July 2021–31 July 2022		Succeeded by
Vipul Shinghal
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