Yadavindra Public School - Old Yadavindrians

Old Yadavindrians

Past students of the school are referred to as OY's (Old Yadavindrians), and the association is referred to as AYOSA (Aitchison Yadavindra Old Students Association). Prominent among the students of royal descent were: Raja Randhir Singh of Patiala (1952-63) represented India in shooting at five Olympics & five Asiads. Secretary General Indian Olympic Association; Yuvraj Raninder Singh of Patiala; Raja Vijayendra Singh of Nalagarh; Raja Ajay Partap Singh of Bhadaur and Kunwar Jainendra Singh of Ramgarh.

Yadavindrians have shone in various fields (cricket - Navjot, Athletics - Jugesh) and are well represented in India's armed forces, politics, civil services, science, sports and the arts.

Army

Lt Gen R Kochar
Lt Gen (Retd) HS Panag, PVSM, AVSM*, ADC (Member Armed Forces Tribunal)
Maj Gen BS Grewal
Maj Gen (Retd) CS Panag, YSM, VSM
Major Gen (Retd) JS Sidhu
Brig (Retd) HS Bath* Brig (Retd) SS Sidhu
Brig (Retd) RS Sidhu
Brig (Retd) ABS Brar
Brig Manvindra Singh Jaiswal, (author as well).
Colonel(Retd) Harinder Singh Attari (First Yadavindra Gold medalist & School Captain 1951)
Capt (Retd) Gurmeet Singh Punia, Vir Chakra (Attended School 1953-58,Battle Casualty 1971 Indo Pak War)

Air Force

Air Mshl (Retd) KD Singh
Air Vice Mshl(Retd) Manpreet Singh Brar
Air Vice Mshl (Dr) GS Joneja

IFS

H.E, Swashpawan Singh, Indian Foreign Service (Retd) : Ambassador and Permanent Representative of India to the Offices of the United Nations in Geneva; Ambassador of India to Kuwait,

Administrative Services

Mr Hardev Singh Chhina IAS (Retd) former Chief Secretary Punjab & an Aitchisonian
Mr Trilochan Singh IAS (Retd), former Chief Secretary, Haryana.
Mr SS Bedi IRS (Retd) Former Commissioner Excise & Taxation
Mr Ravi Bhushan Budhiraja IAS (Retd) Vice Chairman, Maharashtra State Services Tribunal
Mr Gurpartap Singh IRS (Retd) former Commissioner Income Tax
Mr Rajan Kashyap IAS (Retd) former Chief Secretary, Punjab
Mr Mandeep Singh Rai IRS (Retd)
Mr Gurnihal Singh Pirzada IAS
Mr Rajdip Singh Puri IRS (Retd)
Mr KBS Sidhu IAS (Second in merit in all India Civil Services)
Mr Madhukar Gupta IAS (Rajasthan Cadre)
Mr Anirudh Tewari IAS
Mr Harjitinder Singh Grewal IAS
Mr Ajit Singh Pannu IAS
Mr Kashish Mittal IAS
Mr Parneet Singh Sachdeva IRS
Mr Aneet Singh Dullat GM, Indian Railway Traffic Services & IR TC
Mr GS Hira IRAS, Financial Controller, Kapurthala Coach Factory (1980 batch)
Mr Jagjivan IRS
Mr Amaninder Singh Dhindsa IRS
Ms Sugandha Sharma
Mr Lalit Mohan Jindal IRS
Mr Deepak Garg IRS
Mr Naveen Upadhyay IRS

Indian Police Service

Mr MPS Aulakh IPS (Retd) former DGP,Punjab Cadre
Mr NPS Aulakh IPS (DGP, Punjab& NSG)
Mr Amarjot Singh Gill IPS (DGP Rajasthan)
Mr Dinkar Gupta (IPS) Punjab (1980 batch)
Dr Mandeep Singh Tuli IPS (Sikkim Cadre)
Mr Gyaneshwar Singh IPS ( HP Cadre)
Mr Veenu Bansal (UT Cadre)

Educationists

Late Mr SPS Brar
Mr Ajit Singh Jawanda, former Principal YPS
Prof. Anup Beniwal, Professor & Dean University School Humanities & Social Sciences, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi.

Judicial and legal luminaries

Justice SS Sodhi (Former Chief Justice Allahabad High Court)
Mr Harbinder Singh Bhullar, Lawyer Supreme Court
Ms Sugna Ramakumar Kapoor, Lawyer Supreme court
Mr Rajbrinder Singh Chahal, Lawyer High Court
Mr Jaspal Virk, Lawyer, Province of Ontario, Canada

'Politics

Late Mr Harcharan Singh Brar(Aitchisonian) Governor of Orissa & Haryana & Chief Minister of Punjab.
Late Capt Kanwaljit Singh former Finance Minister of Punjab.
Mr Pawan Kumar Bansal, four times MP, Union Minister of India (twice).
Mr Navjot Singh Sidhu three times MP, cricketer & a TV personality
Mr Vijayendra Singla, MP
Late Mr Kirpal Singh Libra (MLA)
Mr Brijbhupinder Singh, former Minister Punjab
Mr Hardeepinder Singh Dhillon (MLA)
Mr Ajitinder Singh Mofar(MLA)
Mr Jeetmohinder Singh Sidhu(MLA)(1980 batch)
Mr Bikramjit Singh Majithia(MLA)

Allied Services

Mr HMS Rosha Commissioner Excise & Taxation
Mr Tejinderpal Singh Sidhu PCS
Mr KBS Mann PCS
Capt YS Matta AETC
Mr Rajbachan Singh Sandhu PP (SP)
Mr Bhupinderjit Singh Virk PP (SP)
Mr Karminder Singh Brar, Punjab Legal Services
Mr Nareshinder Singh Boparai (Former Dy Advocate Gen Punjab)
Mr Amarjit Singh Gill,(Former MD Punjab Land Mortgage Bank & Asst Registrar Coop Societies)
Mr Daljit Singh Mangat PCS
Ms Jaswinder Kaur Sidhu PCS
Mr Rajinder Singh Sidhu Excise & Taxation

Sports

Athletics

Mr Jugeshinder Singh(1975-87) represented India in Athletics in 1986 (110mt Hurdles)

Cricket

Lt Col K Rai Singh, played for the first Indian cricket team

post independence. Later, ADC to HH Maharaja Yadavinder Singh.

Mr Navjot Singh Sidhu (1968-82) played cricket for India under 19 in 1981

& for Indian team from 1983 onwards.

Late Dhruv Pandove, World record holder, youngest to score a century

in first class cricket at the age of 14 yrs& 294 days, 137 runs in a Ranji Trophy.

Mr Ashutosh Kaushal(1977-81) Played cricket for India under 19 in 1981.
Mr Reetinder Singh Sodhi (Captain - World cup winners India juniors team)
Mr Perry Goel played for Indian team under 17 in UK
Mr GS Chahal Played for Indian team under 17 in UK

Hockey

Mr Surjit Singh Panesar (1955-57) Represented Kenya in hockey at three Olympics.
Mr Jagdeep Singh Phoolka (Member Indian Hockey team at Bangkok Asian Games 1966)
Mr Sukhbir Singh Grewal, represented Indian Hockey team as Centre forward for many years, later he was the National Coach for the Indian team
Mr Jaswinder Wassan (Member of Hong Kong hockey team )

Shooting

Ms Harveen Sarao, International Shooter 10 metres Air Pistol,World Universities Championship – Gold & Silver, World Championship-Bronze,Asian Games–Silver, SAF Games in Bangladesh-Gold.

Science & Technology

YPS alumni have joined IITs, medical colleges & other renowned professional institutions. A short list of alumni who graduated from these institutions is as follows: IIT Graduates

Mr Balraj Singh Dhillon Chief Engineer(Retd) PSEB
Mr Prem Parkash Pangotra-IIT(Delhi)-1970
Mr Anupam Garg-1971,IIT(D)
Mr Anup K Jain,1971, IIT(D)
Mr Anmol Singh Biring IIT- Delhi
Mr Harsh Puri-1972,IIT, Delhi
Mr Akhil Bhardwaj (1989-96), IIT Bombay
Mr Lalit Mohan Jindal- 2006, IIT, Delhi
Mr Kashish Mittal (2010), IIT Delhi
Mr Gurpreet Arora (School of Architecture, Ahmedabad)
Mr Jagjivan Garg

Medical professionals

Dr Satbir Bakshi US Navy
Dr Baljeet Singh Sidhu (USA),Orthopedican
Dr Gurdeep Jawal
Dr Baljinder Singh Sidhu Eye Surgeon, Liverpool,UK
Dr Malkit Singh Kingra
Dr IS Virdi (Thoracic Surgeon Apollo Hospital)
Dr Bhagwant Singh Ratta
Dr Mandeep Singh Sethi
Dr Tony Singh Ratta
Dr Rajeev Agarwal, Orthopedics
Dr Mahesh Sehgal, USA
Dr Mandeep Dhillon Surgeon & Senior Prof, Head of Dept Orthopedics-PGIMER, Chandigarh.
Dr Mandeep Singh Sidhu
Dr Manpreet Singh Thind, plastic surgeon.
Dr Updesh Singh Bedi
Dr Ashutosh Kaushal, Internal Medicine, Virginia, USA (1979 batch)
Dr. Sunita Merriman, Dentist, New Jersey, USA (1980 batch)
Dr. Jugeshinder S. Cheema, Radiologist, Indiana, USA (1980 batch)
Dr. Sanjeev Puri, Cardiologist, Illinois, USA (1980 batch)
Dr. Amardeep Sodhi, Infectious Diseases, Arizona, USA(1980 batch)
Dr. Amandeep Sodhi, Internal Medicine, Arizona, USA (1983 batch)
Dr. Ramanjeet S. Dhaliwal, Internal Medicine, Arizona, USA (1983 batch)
Dr. Pradeep Apte, Biochemist, Director Medicare Centre Indore(MP)(1970 batch)
Dr. Prabhsimranjot Singh, Internal Medicine, New York, USA (2000 batch)

Writers and Journalists

Ms Neelkamal Puri (Writer)
Mr Roopinder Singh Sandhu, Asst Editor, The Tribune & a writer
Ms Puneetinder Kaur Sidhu

Corporate and business leaders

Sardar Paramjeet Singh Bahia, Japan Airlines

Ms Parmeshwar Godrej
Mr Suresh Modi, Industrialist
Mr IS Bhore, former VP UB group
Mr Ravinder Singh Rekhi, former head McDonalds, SE Asia
Mr Malvinder S Bhinder(Industrialist) MD, Agro Dutch
Mr Harmeet Singh Batra, Business.
Mr Jagdev S Gill-Owner Reebok SE Asia
Mr Inder Singh Sidhu VP, CISCO, USA
Mr Harinder Singh Grewal Country Head, Airtel.
Mr Mandeep Singh Butter (Bobby) CMD, IONNOR an IT company.
Mr Jugeshinder Singh formerly Country Head, Macquarie (India), an Investment Banking Group.