During his service career he had got M.Sc., degree in Defence Studies, from Madras University,Chennai, India (1987). He was awarded distinction on his Master Thesis “Air Power in the Middle East:Lessons for India.” He was honoured with Vashishth Sewa Medal (PYSM), Indian Armed forces’s highest peacetime award for his distinguished services. It was his qualification, experience and administrative capacity that got him an after retirement employment as Principal of a prestigious school in Delhi. During this period of Principal ship of Mata Jai Kaur Public School, he was elected Executive member of National Public Schools conference. He organized four seminars on current problems in the Indian School system. The school’s academic and sports results improved by 100 percent during his tenure. On retirement from Principal ship, he started efforts to uplift the educational needs of rural Punjabis. Along with partners hefounded a degree vocational college at Gurney Kalan in District Sangrur. Many more coaching centers were opened in backward areas. Being a sports lover and promoter, he has been an avid horse rider skier and golfer. He was the Chairman of Indian Services Sports Control Board 1986-87. He was also elected as Vice-Chairman, Indian Olympic Committee 1986-87. When International Sikh Confederation came into being, he was the co-convener and has also been the Secretary General of the Confederation since beginning. Although, his contribution in the field of education and sports has been highly appreciable, but his contribution for procuring considerable amount of scholarships for the Sikh minority students is above all as it shows his love and concern for his community. In 2007-08 when minority scholarship scheme was launched by the Prime Minister for the benefit of the poor students, the amount of Rs. 6 crore set apart for Punjab could be utilized only up to 50 lakhs. It was mainly because there was no awareness among the people. International Sikh Confederation led by S. Kartar Singh Gill launched a massive awareness scheme by conducting T.V. shows, through advertisements and making personal visits to educational institutions and holding seminars and discussions with teachers, NGO’s, students and concerned departments. As a result of these efforts the amount of such scholarship and distribution thereof marked a tremendous increase. In the year 2015-16 Rs. 3.1 crores were distributed to the students and approximately 7 lacs students of Punjab have been benefitted. Dropout ratios of students in school level has come down from 23% to 9% in Punjab as per statics available with central Govt. All this has been done with the help of many NGO’s putting financial
help and physical efforts.
