Our President

ABOUT OUR PRESIDENT

Our President, Maj. S. P. Singh (Retd.) was born in a middle-class agricultural family of Tanwer Rajputs at Village Bihta in Ambala Dist. His father Late Thakur Rattan Singh, who was a Doctor by profession had a brother and a sister, both elder to him.His Grand father, Late Thakur Kartar Singh, was in the State Revenue Services of Punjab Government. In spite of lacking high education he always aspired to raise his family with a primary focus on education, which in those days was a distant dream of only the privileged few.

His great father, Thakur Bharat Singh did his MA LLB from Lahore in the year 1917 and, thereafter, he practiced Law at Ambala. He was the Chairman of the District Board Ambala and subsequently was inducted as a Member of the Punjab Public Service Commission at Lahore in 1939. His father Graduated in Hikmat in 1921 from Tebla College Delhi, and for sometime practiced his profession before he plunged himself into the Freedom Struggle of India in 1925 and, thereafter, fully devoted himself to the cause of freedom struggle till the liberation of the country in 1947, from the British Rule.

His father being a staunch advocate and believer of human rights was a great follower of the Mahatma Gandhi Doctrine and fully devoted himself to the cause of the freedom throughout his life and went to jail many a times. Later he remained MLA for almost two terms, and in 1953, while responding to the call of Mahatma Gandhi, he gave up politics and whole-heartedly devoted himself to the service of the Society, up-liftment of women and the poor and down trodden, mainly through Education and with the same aim in view, in 1982, with the help of the Rajputs, other Communities and people of the area around Mullana, District Ambala, who donated about 35 Acreas of land, he started a degree College initially for the Girls and later a co-educational institution, at Mullana. He did not live long to see what the future held for this Institution and passed away on 21^st November 1987. His Mother, a very simple and loving lady was from an orthodox background and was uneducated but was fully aware and worldly-wise.

Maj S. P. Singhji received his education under the care of his cousin (his Great Father’s younger son), Kanwar Randip Singh, an IPS Officer, who not only supported him in his Education but treated him as inseparable part of his family till, he joined the Army as a Commissioned Officer in 1962, after his Graduation from the Government College Ludhiana, where at Phillaur, he was posted as Principal of the Police training College.

He was commissioned in 1963 into the Rajput Regiment and posted at Fatehgarh (U.P.) the Centre of the Regiment. Life here was entirely different; a tough life packed with discipline, full of adventure but still interesting and enjoyable.

Being in the Infantry, he mostly remained posted in the field units except for two short tenures in the staff, command of the men and their Management, an art which only comes with experience in service is the most unique charcter of the Armed forces life; one cannot learn and experience it anywhere else except the forces, more especially the Army-Commanding men was a great pleasure and enjoyable experience.