New Delhi, Jan 31: Lieutenant General GAV Reddy, has been appointed as the new head of the Defence Intelligence Agency. General Reddy would be succeeding Lt Gen KJS Dhillon.
The Director-General of the Defence Intelligence Agency is the head of the organisation and is among the Principal Advisors on intelligence to the Minister of Defence and the Chief of Defence Staff.
The post of the Director General is held on a rotation basis between the three Armed services. The first Director-General of the DIA was Lt Gen Kamal Davar, former Director-General of the Indian Army’s Mechanised Forces.
Lieutenant General Reddy was previously serving as the ninth Commandant of the prestigious Officers Training Academy (OTA), Gaya.
He attended the Defence Services Staff College at Wellington and also held a vast number of important Command and Staff appointments. An alumnus of the Officers Training Academy, Chennai, Lt Gen Reddy was commissioned into the 9th Battalion of the Jat Regiment on 8 March 1986. (Agencies)
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