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Jaipal Singh Law (also known as J.P. Singh) is a former bureaucrat and a member of the J&K Public Service Commission, a constitutional body under the J&K and Indian constitutions. A retired officer of the Jammu & Kashmir government in India who superannuated from service in 2014. He retired as the Director of The State's Technical Education Department and as one of the seven Directors forming an executive body of the All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE). He was the head of the Directorate General of YSS J&K and The Secretary of the Sports Council. He is the chairman of the School Games Federation of India (SGFI) legal committee, the head of the Hostel Development committee of the Youth Hostels Association Of India (YHAI) and holds positions in other semi-government bodies. He has served as DM in Anantnag and Rajouri districts over especially disturbed spells of time (2008–12). He is responsible for the successful conduct of the first Kashmir Premier League (Chinar Cup), the Amarnath Yatra (multiple times) and for relief work after the 2005 Kashmir earthquake.He was the observer for the Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh (Autonomous administrative divisions of India) elections in 2013.
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Early life
Singh shares a close relationship with his elder brother S.K.S Law (also a retired senior officer, IPS). They lived at Udhampur where Law served as a police superintendent. Jaipal completed his university education from the University of Jammu in Political Science. He had a business venture before entering government service. He was a national level (university) field hockey player.
Career
Early in his career he served as a Development Officer in North Kashmir, during peak militancy.
He was the Deputy commissioner/Collector of Rajouri District and Anantnag District of Kashmir.He was responsible for maintaining law and order in Anantnag as the District Magistrate during 2008 and 2010. Also was credited with coordinating the Amarnath Yatra for many years, in second in command and leading administrative capacities. There were mass protest by the locals of Anantnag against the Govt. when he was posted to a different position, many locals wanted him to continue as the District collector
He held other posts such as Secretary of the J&K State Sports Council and the Director (Charged Director General) YSS J&K.
Controversy
Singh was involved, only as a third party, in a few controversies, most recently in the case of a Naib tehsildar signing his own promotion order. The Naib (an officer of the revenue department) forged Mr.Singh's signatures promoting himself to Tehsildar.
Family
Singh is married to Ranjit Kaur, who works in the Department of School Education. He has one son, Gurasheesh Singh.