Major General Dilawar Singh has been a Senior General in the Indian Army and he was also selected to be the National Director General for Youth Development in the Government of India. A well educated, highly trained and experienced professional leader with both national and international achievements, he has a Masters in Defence Studies, a second Masters in Management Sciences and a Ph.D in Youth Development and Management Strategy and Policy.
He has successfully completed training at numerous Centres of Excellence and achieved numerous distinctions and national and international awards. He has proven track record of highest achievements over his 40 plus years of career and comes with rich experience in different development and financial sectors.
General Dilawar has a adequate experience of managing mega infrastructure development projects, technological development projects, organisational development, reshaping and redesigning of organisations, communications development projects, Youth development projects, tree plantation as well as rivers cleaning and ecosystem development projects.
He also has hands on experience of preparing long term development plans for Military Force Structures and organisations, Weapons, Equipment and Systems Profile development plans and Military modernisation related Acquisition plans, Training Plans and Financial Plans for the entire Indian Army and Youth Development plans for the Government of India
He has headed the Youth Leadership Company in the prestigious Indian Military Academy, Youth Development Organisation of a State and he has also headed the largest Indian National Youth Development Organisation of the Government of India responsible for development of 8.5 million Youth annually for leadership, skill development, sports, performing arts, culture, tree plantation, water harvesting, water conservation, rivers cleaning and other environmental development and climate change mitigation activities, besides conducting international exchange programs and Youth parliaments.
He has been the Dy Director General at the Indian Army’s Financial Planning department and managed Government Finances of upto US Dollars 2,35,00,000, annually besides conducting research on financial matters for the Indian defence Forces.
He has also been involved in the leadership role at the highest level in the Government of India as the Member of the Consultative Committee of the New Education Policy of the Govt of India, Member of the Expert Committee of the University Grants Commission of the Government of India as well as numerous other Committees in different ministries of the Government of India.
He has been on the Board of Governors, Executive committees, Academic Councils of numerous Universities and has also been the Consultant and Advisor to the Indian Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Technology and led numerous innovations for the Armed Forces and the Country.
He has been a visiting faculty at numerous centres of academic excellence in both Military and Civilian Universities including National University of Forensic Studies, National Security University, Agriculture University, Technological University, three different Indian Institutes of Management and National Institute of Financial Management, Institute for training Income Tax Officers and CENTRAD in addition to the Army War College, Defence Services Staff College, Indian Military Academy.
He has led numerous Government of India delegations to USA, China, Russia, S. Korea, Kenya, Greece, Hungary, Belize, Srilanka, Maldives and Bangladesh. He has also led the delegations to the Commonwealth and BRICS youth summits.
He has been the President of Para Sports Foundation, President Tamo Martial Arts and Advisor for numerous Sports organisations including being Vice President of the Indian Kungfu Federation and advisor Paralympic Committee of India.
Major General Dr. Dilawar Singh
Co President
Global Development Bank