The Defense Services Staff College (DSSC) is an inter-service institution of the Indian Ministry of Defence that trains officers of all three services of the Indian Armed Forces (Navy, Army, Air Force) and officers from friendly foreign countries for command and staff appointments. One of the oldest military institutions in India, it was founded in 1905 as the Army Staff college in Deolali (near Bombay), and then re-located to Quetta (now Pakistan). After the partition of India and Pakistan, the Indian operations relocated to its present home in Wellington Cantonment in The Nilgiris District of Tamil Nadu, India. The Pakistani Operations remain in Quetta as the Command and Staff College. By 1950 it was progressively transformed into a fully integrated Defence Services Staff College, imparting training to Officers of the three services in the company of some officers from the Indian Civil Services, Para Military Forces and friendly foreign countries.

External links

• Inter-Service Institutions: DSSC Homepage