Dhiraj Seth
Dhiraj Seth, PVSM, UYSM, is a serving general officer of the Indian Army. He currently serves as General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Command. He was previously tenanting the appointment of General Officer Commanding-in-Chief South Western Command. He earlier held the appointment of General Officer commanding Delhi Area, prior to that he was General Officer Commanding XXI Corps. He is also the Colonel of the Regiment of the Armoured Corps.
File:LGDS1.jpg|thumb|260x260px|Lieutenant General Dhiraj Seth as Southern Army Commander
Early life and education
He is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy, Khadakwasla and the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun. He is also an alumnus of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington, the Army War College, Mhow and the National Defence College, New Delhi. In DSSC, he was adjudged as the best all-round student of his course in 2006. Later, he attended the General Staff Course at the French Collège interarmées de Défense. The general officer is also qualified in International Defense Acquisition Management Course at the Naval Postgraduate School, USA. He was 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.Military career
The general officer was commissioned into the 2nd Lancers on 20 December 1986 from the Indian Military Academy. In a career spanning over three decades, he has undertaken numerous command, staff and instructional appointments. He has commanded the Skinner's Horse, 98 Armoured Brigade and was General Officer Commanding of a Rashtriya Rifles in Jammu & Kashmir. He has served as brigade major of an independent Armoured brigade, as the Assistant Military Secretary in the Military Secretary's Branch, as Brigadier General Staff at the South Western Command, as brigadier perspective plans with the Strategic Planning Directorate and as the Additional Director General Weapons and Equipment. He also served with the United Nations Angola Verification Mission III as an operations officer from 1995-1996. He has done instructional tenures as an instructor and assistant adjutant at the National Defence Academy, and as an instructor at the School of Armoured Warfare, Ahmednagar.After being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General, he assumed the appointment of Director General at Army Headquarters, New Delhi. On 31 July 2021, he took over as the General Officer Commanding, XXI Corps. He was subsequently appointed General Officer Commanding, Delhi Area in August 2022.
On 1 November 2023, Lieutenant General Dhiraj Seth took over as the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief South Western Command succeeding Lieutenant General B. S. Raju who superannuated on 31 October 2023. On 1 July 2024, Lieutenant General Dhiraj Seth took over as the General Officer Commanding-in-Chief Southern Command succeeding Lieutenant General Ajai Kumar Singh who superannuated on 30 June 2024.