Colonel D H Parab (Retd) has an illustrious Army background, with his
grandfather serving in both the World Wars in the Royal Army Medical
Corps. His father was the first Indian Commanding Officer of 2/8 GR and
was the Military Governor of Ladakh in 1948. An alumnus of Rashtriya
Indian Military College (RIMC), Dehradun, Dileep Parab joined 2/8 GR,
his father’s unit in 1967. An exceptional sportsman, he excelled in boxing
and was the President of the Maharashtra Boxing Association. Besides
serving as an instructor at National Defence Academy, Pune and at Officers
Training Academy, Chennai, he has been the Commandant and Principal at
RIMC, Dehradun for seven years. In his second innings, he held charge of
Maharashtra Government’s Services Preparatory Institute at Aurangabad,
and later helmed the Sainik School of the DY Patil Educational Trust.
Colonel and Mrs Parab are presently running “Colonel Parab’s School”, the
first and only ICSE School in Ahmednagar – a school where good manners,
moral values, respect for elders and teachers is inculcated and imbibed.
