Sardar Bahadur S. Karnail Singh - Sikhs The Supreme

Sardar Bahadur S. Karnail Singh created history and shaped political boundaries of the country in the east after partition, when he accomplished 250 km. Assam Rail link (A dream of Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru) connecting West Bengal with Assam, in a record time of less than three years, which was otherwise thought next to impossible by senior British engineers due to indispensable requirement of bridging more than half a dozen major West Bengal dashing rivers rushing from the Himalayas with big rocks. Nothing sort of this feat was ever heard about any other bridge engineer.

After partition, India lost its link with Assam due to separation of East Bengal. It was most essential to have rail links with Assam to keep its integration intact with the country. S. Karnail Singh did miracle which belied the then prevailing impression amongst senior British engineers that such a line could not be constructed at all, due to uncontrollable rivers flowing from Himalayas to West Bengal. Had it not been for him, it would have been difficult to keep assam intact with india.

A bridge engineer par excellence, S. Karnail Singh, born in 1904 in Amritsar distt., linked remote parts of the country for the Indian Railways. An alumni of Khalsa College, Amritsar and Thomson Engineering College, Roorkee, he joined N.W.Railways (now in Pakistan) in 1928 and Rose to the posts of chairman of the railway board in 1960 and principal secretary to govt. of india, before his retirement in 1962.

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