Wellington Cantonment

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Wellington a cantonment town in the Nilgiri District of Tamil Nadu. It is the Regimental Centre for the Madras Regiment. Its most famous resident is Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw

Wellington is home to The Defense Services Staff College (DSSC), a premier tri-service training establishment that imparts training to middle level officers of the three wings of the Indian Armed Forces, friendly foreign countries and various Indian Civil Service departments. The list of alumni of the DSSC at Wellington reads like a Who's Who of the armed forces and includes Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw, former Fijian strongman Sitiveni Rabuka, Nigerian President Olesegun Obasanjo and former governor of the Reserve Bank of India R.N.Malhotra

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