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OP Singh is a graduate in psychology, economics and English literature. He joined Indian Police Service in 1992 and belongs to Haryana cadre. He has attended training programs at Harvard University, Cambridge University & United Nations.

As Superintendent of Police from 1996-2003, he led counter-crime efforts from the front, implemented community-policing initiatives and helped in creating majority defender of law situation in the state. As Inspector General of Police, South Range, in 2012-13, he introduced FOR (First Time Offenders Rehabilitation) Program to help youthful offenders in reclaiming their lives through sports and skill building. The initiative led to voluntary surrender of a large number of absconders.

For his consistently commendable performance, he was awarded President Police Medal for Meritorious Service in 2008.

As Deputy Director in Enforcement Directorate from 2003-07, OP Singh played a key role in framing the Rules of Prevention of Money Laundering Act, 2005. Government of India nominated him to represent the country at UN Conference on Anti-Money Laundering & Counterterrorism in Doha, Qatar in 2006. To his credit is investigation of the first money laundering offence registered in India in 2007 against an international drug trafficking cartel operating in Punjab.

Sports
As Haryana Sports Director from 2008-12, he played a pivotal role in developing and implementing PIE (Participation, Inclusion & Excellence) Model of sports promotion. Popular as Haryana sports model, its innovative incentive architecture and direct-to-athlete approach encouraged state's sportspersons to raise their performance standard in international level. With less than two percent of India's population and landmass, Haryana's players accounted for one-third of country’s medals in Olympic, Asian &Commonwealth Games held from 2008-12. The Model accorded differently-abled players parity with the general athletes. It led to emergence of new class of role models in public life, sending out a powerful message that excellence is achievable even in the face of debilitating physical limitations.

The iconic SPAT (Sports & Physical Aptitude Test) Annual Sports Scholarship Program with the inspirational campaign line 'Play for India' attracted over a million girls and boys in 8-19 years age group to the playgrounds across the state. It led to emergence of a new class of active stakeholders of sports in children, parents and teachers. It helped schools in making themselves more attractive to athletically inclined children and reducing their dropout rates. The program generated first hand data on various aspects of sports and helped in eliminating guesswork in decision-making. Above all, it gave hundreds of thousands of girls from all segments of society an easily accessible connect to sports. The FAIR Play (Funding Athleticism In Reserved category athletes) Scholarship Program enabled youth from the underprivileged strata of society to opt sports as a career and realistically aspire for victories in higher levels of competitions. The affirmative measure substantially improved the scheduled caste players’ representation in district and state level tournaments.

The Haryana model helped in mainstreaming sports as a government sector. It led to acceptance of sports as a tool of personality development, preventive healthcare, youth engagement, community building and social integration. A wide range of sports’ stakeholders in general public, industry, media, players, sports associations and administration hailed it as a merit-based instrument and called for its upscaling to the national level. The FICCI (Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry) declared Haryana the 'Sports State of the Year' in 2011 for its grass root initiatives and stellar performance in competitive sports at international level. Innowin, an innovation documenting Quarterly published under the aegis of Dr RA Mashelkar, Director General of Centre for Scientific & Industrial Research for eleven years, featured Shri OP Singh as Change Maker and SPAT sports scholarship program as an innovation that can change India.

Impressed with SPAT ‘s success in attracting millions of enthusiastic children to sports, the Government of India presented it as the country's flagship sports popularization program at the CABOS (Commonwealth Advisory Board on Sports) Conference, New Delhi in 2011. In recognition of his contribution in popularizing sports at grass root level, it nominated OP Singh to represent India at 'Youth for Sports' conclave in Birmingham in 2011. Hockey India commissioned him for a study tour to Boston on women field hockey in 2010.

Book
OP Singh authored the book ‘Say Yes to Sports' in 2013, outlining in it factors that made Haryana sports model a big success. It has been received very well as a tool book decoding India’s business ecosystem for administrators delivering innovation in government sector. Eminent scholar Dr Shashi Tharoor has rated it as 'a remarkable book' that can spark 'a revolution in school sports across the country'.

Other Activities
In addition to his commitment as a career civil servant, OP Singh regularly hosts ‘Courage to Encourage’ Workshop for young parents to help them in motivating their children to have dreams and heart to pursue them.

OP Singh in presently working on a book on encouragement. The idea is to drive home the point that more of it will change things for better, particularly for young children.

He is also working on a campaign for Y2S (Yes to Sports)-compliant schools to encourage them to undertake activities that will enable teachers, parents and children to make an informed choice about sports.

The Latest News
OP Singh organizes Courage to Encourage Workshop for young parents OP Singh in Business Standard about school sports OP Singh Indian Express & Tribune about India’s performance in Glasgow CWG