Dr. Yatindra Pal Singh, IRSE, born in January,1957, in Bulandshahr district of
Uttar Pradesh, India retired from the ‘Indian Railway Service of Engineers’ as
Additional General Manager of North Central Railway. He also worked as the
Principal Chief Engineer of North Western Railway and the Vice-Chairman, Rail
Land Development Authority. He is both a Civil engineer and a Manager by
education. He completed his B.Tech.(Hons) with Chancellor’s Gold Medal from
G.B.Pant University, Pantnagar, M.E. from University of Roorkee and PG
Diploma in Management from MDI, Gurgaon. Later on, he completed his MS in
Infrastructure Planning from University of Stuttgart, Germany and Ph.D. in
Management from AMU, Aligarh. He also graduated from the National Defence
College, New Delhi and obtained M.Phil. from University of Madras.
He has travelled widely throughout India and abroad. He is an avid photographer.
The book ‘ Clock Towers of India’ has come out of his desire to share the rich
heritage of India including the history of various clock towers around India and the
issues about their maintenance. The book traces the history of the construction of
clock towers, their details and status of their maintenance and is expected to fill the
void in this area as the clock towers of India have not been chronicled so far.