Dhyan Chand Stadium

Dhyan Chand, the pride of Punjab Regiment, was a player of outstanding excellence, tremendous stamina, agility and such an original style of playing hockey that many world players tried to emulate him, but with little success. It was this unique style of Dhyan Chand that earned him, quite rightfully, the affectionate and most apporipriate title of `The Hockey Wizard’.

Dhyan Chand was still an ordinary sepoy of the British Indian Army when he took part in the 1936 Olympic hockey matches played at Berlin. India once again won the gold medal there, and out of the total of 38 goals scored by India, 11 goals come from the stick of Dhyan Chand.

In 1947, when India won freedom, Dhyan Chand (who had by then risen to Captain’s rank) was transferred to the 2nd Punjab Regimental Centre at Meerut from 1/14 Punjab Regiment and soon after he was promoted to a Major. He was also awarded Padma Bhushan in recognition of his services to hockey.

The PUNJAB Regt has procuded many outstanding sportsmen over the years, with hockey wizard Dhyan Chand topping the list.

In the field of athletics this Regiment’s notable international gold medalists include three famous sportsmen, namely Sub Harnek Singh, Sub Sardara Singh (both Arjuna Awardees as well) and Subedar Major Parsa Singh (Javelin). These three are from 14 PUNJAB (NABHA AKAL). 9 PUNJAB’s Sub Satish Kumar is another legend.

18 PUNJAB, too, produced famous athletes such as Hav Sarup Singh and Sub Sardul Singh, while 3 and 13 PUNJAB produced Nb Sub Avtar Singh and Nb Sub Gurdev Singh respectively. Sub Swaran Singh of 24 PUNJAB also showed tremendous potential, as did many others. It will not be possible to cover the achievements of each and every sportsman individually, but suffice to say that the Regiment is earning many more laurels by the year.

Sub Maj Surjeet Singh, VSM atop Mount Everest

Subedar Major Surjeet Singh, VSM is an ace mountaineer having the distinction of climbing Mount Everest twice. Hailing from the mountainous Chamba District of Himachal Pradesh, Subedar Major Surjeet Singh was enrolled in the Punjab Regiment in 1988. On completion of his basic training he went to  his  parent  battalion 9 PUNJAB. During the high altitude tenures with the unit, he discovered his liking for mountaineering and volunteered for mountain warfare course at High Altitude Warfare School (HAWS) at Gulmarg. It was very evident during the course that he was a special student. He received the best student award and was called as an Instructor there in 1999. After    doing a number of expeditions like  Mt Lhotse, Mt Annapurna-1, Mt Komet and others he summited the world’s  highest  peak   Mt Everest on 16 May 2003 and subsequently again on 2nd Jun 2005. He has been conferred the Vishist Seva Medal for doing the Punjab Regiment and the Indian Army proud.

Boxing.  Two of our Boxers have brought laurels to the Regt. Nb Sub Madan won Gold in Fly wt cat and was also declared the best boxer of the Services in the Army Boxing Championship 2012. Nb Sub Vijay Kumar had also won Gold in the Welter Wt in the same Championship.

Nb Sub Madan - Gold, Fly Wt & Best Boxer in Services

Nb Sub Vijay - Gold, Welter Wt

Tennis.  Young rects of the Regt are are also winning laurels for the Regt. Rect Manoj Kumar won Silver Medal in Tennis Championship held at Central Comd for the Yr 2012.