Major Lochan Singh Gem of Our Vansh

Lochan Singh Sardar Lochan Singh ( 11/7/1902- 25/8/1996) was born in Kahuta , Rawalpindi West Punjab (now Pakistan), he was educated in engineering, first at Queens College Belfast ( 1924) and later at the Imperial College, London in 1937 . He rose through the ranks of the Indian army under the British empire, and later through the civil service of independent India, to become the first post-master general, and later, secretary of state for post and telecommunications. Having been commissioned from Sandhurst, Major Lochan was posted, during the Second World War to Baghdad, then part of the British Mandate of Mesopotamia, with instruction to overseas the creation of a modern telecommunications network across the greater Middle East.

He was decorated and has a Royal Parchment of exceptional services. By 1944, the British were thus able to co-ordinate Allied efforts in the Caucassus, the Meditterranean, the Middle East and North Africa more efficiently. Returning to India, he was placed at the head of the Central Post Office in Delhi and later reported directly to Mr. Jagjeevan Ram then Cabinet Minister for Railways. He was a member of Railway Board. After the First World War, he married Sushila Toor,first graduate of Jammu University & the daughter of a prominent judge in the beautiful but volatile state of Jammu and Kashmir.After his retirement he started Potohar Educational Trust for post graduate studies for the needy and the trust is being managed by his three daughters.