India, April 19 -- The Sainik School in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa town is on a roll, with its alumni scaling new heights in the armed forces.

Vice Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi, who will take over as the navy chief on April 30, is an alumnus of the school set up in 1962 and the army's vice chief Lieutenant General Upendra Dwivedi also attended the same school.

Dwivedi is the front-runner for the army chief's post as he will be the senior-most officer in the service when General Manoj Pande retires on May 31. The government went by the seniority principle in appointing Tripathi as the navy chief.

Like several other Sainik Schools in the country, Rewa has produced a battery of high-ranking officials who have filled key roles in the armed for...