Against the backdrop of all these constraints, the troops were tasked with neutralising the well-indoctrinated cadre of the LTTE an ill-conceived tall order handed down by the planners in Delhi. At the time of induction, the troops were ill-equipped, ill-mapped, had no knowledge about the terrain in the alien land and most importantly, had no clue of the modus-operandi of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). After graduation from University College, Kurukshetra, he joined the Indian Military Academy, Dehradun, and on June 14, 1986, he was commissioned in 16th Sikh Battalion, which was also his father’s battalion.Ĭonsequent to the signing of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord in July 1987, the Indian Army was sent to the island nation for peacekeeping duties. He had his schooling at stations wherever his father was posted. Rajinder belonged to Machhgarh village in Faridabad district. “One star on my shoulder is brighter than all the stars in the galaxy put together,” said Second Lieutenant (2/Lt) Rajinder Singh Nagar after his commissioning in the Indian Military Academy on June 14, 1986.Ģ/Lt Rajinder Singh Nagar was a second generation soldier in uniform his father Col Charat Singh Nagar was commissioned in 16th Battalion of Sikh Infantry Regiment and had also commanded it in early eighties for three years.
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