Chennai, Sept. 18 -- Lieutenant General Manish Erry, today assumed the command of India's Premier Tri-Services Institution, the Defence Services Staff College (DSSC), Wellington.
He took over from Lieutenant General Virendra Vats, who concluded a distinguished three-year tenure marked by strengthening academic standards, advancing joint training and deepening international military cooperation at the premier Tri-Services institution.
The DSSC was established in 1905 at Quetta (now in Pakistan) and relocated to Wellington in the Nilgiris District, Tamil Nadu in 1947. It is India's foremost Tri-Services training institution. It trains selected officers of the Indian Army, Navy and Air Force, as well as officers from friendly foreign nations...