A BRIEF PROFILE OF COL TEJANDRA PAL TYAGI, VIR CHAKRA
He was born in 1946 at Village Bihang, Ghaziabad in the family of Police Inspector Shri G S Tyagi. As a student of the Final Years of B E (Civil), Sh T P Tyagi won the best All Rounder Award for Standing First in order of Merit, excelling as a Gymnast and also getting Elected As General Secretary of the Student’s Union of Visvesvaraya Regional College of Engineering, Nagpur, Lieutenant T P Tyagi was decorated with the National Gallantry Award of “Vir Chakra“ during 1971 Indo Pakistan war for displaying exceptional courage in making temporary tank crossing on UBDC and bringing back his five dangerously wounded soldiers from the enemy territory in the face of bullets, enemy and death. He did M Tech (Marine Structures) from Mysore University on deputation from Army and established a new Record. Col Tejandra Pal Tyagi revived the sick Project of R & R Hospital , Delhi Cantt, as Commander Works Engineer. This prestigious project was lying sick since last 4 years; compared to Apollo Hospital in Delhi, R & R Hospital was constructed at almost one tenth cost in spite of catering for more Beds and more Super Specialties. Col Tejandra Pal Tyagi was honoured with Er. Hari Memorial Award by the Institution of Engineers (India) for bringing out the relationship between the Magnetic field of the Earth and Cosmic Energy. He was also elected as Development Chairman of the Institution of Vastu Science (India). His Book “Vaastu with Science and Logic” has been accepted by the Govt. for 128 reputed Libraries.
After retirement in March 2001, Col Tejandra Pal Tyagi founded “ Rashtriya Sainik Sanstha ( An organization of Patriotic Civilians and the Ex-servicemen-www.sainiksanstha.com) which has already moved to twenty two States of the Country with the Weapon and Slogan of “ Jai Hind “. And, the move is unabated.