Lt Gen Singh takes over as NDA commandant

Lt Gen Jatinder Singh has taken over as Commandant of National Defence Academy (NDA) on Saturday from Vice Admiral Satish Soni, who has been posted as Officer on Special Duty to Chief of the Naval Staff.

Singh, a specialist in mechanised operations and counter-insurgency operations, is an alumnus of the National Defence Academy (42nd Course, ‘Juliet’ Squadron) and was commissioned into the 1 Guards (2 Punjab) regiment of the Indian Army on June 13 1973. He is a graduate of the Defence Services Staff College, Wellington and Higher Command Course (Air) at College of Air Warfare, Secunderabad.

He has operational experience of commanding from a company to a division in the counter-insurgency environment.

He also held the position of Chief of Staff of the Desert Corps and DG  of Rashtriya Rifles.