The Defence Services Command and Staff College () is a staff college of Bangladesh Armed Forces that provides training to Bangladeshi military officers. It is located in Mirpur, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
History
The institute was established on 30 December 1977 with the support of British Military Advisory Team. The college is run by Bangladesh Armed forces. A British Military Advisory Team (BMAT) headed by a Chief Instructor, was the founding and driving force in running the training curriculum in the initial days of the college. The inaugural batch had 30 students from all the three services of Bangladesh Armed Forces and Bangladesh Police. The college ran short courses of six-month duration jointly for the three services for the first three years. In 1980, the course duration was increased to 10 months. That year, a separate Air Wing was also opened, and invitation to overseas students was started. Separate Naval Wing was opened in 1982.
Since 1977, the course strength has been more than quadrupled. So far, 5979 students have graduated from the college. This includes 1300+ overseas students around the world. Till now officers from 44 Countries have participated in the course in Bangladesh DSCSC.
List of Commandants +Sl No.NameTerm StartTerm End1Major General Muzammel Hussain23 Sep 197718 July 19812Major General Muhammad Abdul Latif18 July 198129 June 19833Major General ASM Nasim29 June 198316 May 19844Major General Abdul Mannaf16 May 198422 Feb 19865Major General Muhammad Abdus Samad8 Mar 19876 Dec 19906Major General KM Abdul Wahed6 Dec 199025 Mar 19917Major General Muhammad Mahbubur Rahman28 Oct 199115 Aug 19938Major General Mustafa Kamal Uddin15 Aug 199321 May 19959Major General Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury22 May 199524 May 199610Major General A M Mansur Ahmed11 Aug 199616 Aug 200111Major General Fazle Elahi Akbar16 Aug 200123 May 200212Major General ASM Nazrul Islam28 Mar 20023 Feb 200513Major General Rezaqul Haider3 Feb 200530 June 200514Major General Aminul Karim10 Jul 200516 Jul 200615Major General M A Mubeen4 Jul 200620 Jul 200716Major General Iqbal Karim Bhuiyan24 Jul 200715 Mar 200917Major General Md. Ashab Uddin18 Mar 200925 Feb 201018Major General Abu Belal Muhammad Shafiul Huq10 May 201231 Dec 201219Major General Muhammad Mahfuzur Rahman13 Jan 201327 Aug 201320Major General Sajjadul Haque28 Aug 20133 May 201621Major General Md Saiful Abedin3 May 201619 Feb 201722Major General AKM Abdullahil Baquee3 Mar 201726 Aug 201823Major General Md Enayet Ullah26 Aug 20185 Mar 202024Major General Md Akbar Hossain5 Mar 202013 Jan 202125Major General Jubayer Salehin23 Jan 202116 Feb 202226Major General Ibne Fazal Shayekhuzzaman17 Feb 202230 Dec 202227Major General Md Faizur Rahman28 Feb 202314 Aug 202428Major General Mohammad Asadullah Minhazul Alam18 Aug 202423 Oct 202429Major General Chowdhury Mohammad Azizul Haque HazaryNov 202411 June 202630Major General S. M. Asadul Haque15 July 2026Incumbent
See also National Defence College (Bangladesh) Bangladesh University of Professionals
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