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.


Limca Book of Records

  • Ex-Wg Cdr MS Mander- For achievements in aviation.

Religious Heads

  • Baba Hardev Singh Ji of Nirankari sect
  • Dr Pradeep Apte Non-duality (Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj)

Film personalities

  • Mr Gugu Gill, Film actor
  • Mr Gulzar Inder Singh Chahal, Film actor
  • Mr Bikramjit Singh Bhullar, Film director
  • Mr Harshmeep Singh Kang, Film actor
  • Mr Jimmy Shergill, Film actor

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