Lt Colonel Jayavel (Retired) is the third-generation army person, who was born and brought up from coimbatore.
He comes from a family of warriors. His grandfather served our country in the First World War, his father served in the Second World War.
He is an alumnus of Sainik school Amaravathi Nagar and had the opportunity to serve in the army in counter insurgency areas like Manipur, Nagaland, Mizoram and Kashmir.
Lt COL Jayavel passed out of Indian Military Academy (IMA) and joined 1st Dogra regiment and later move to the 16th Battalion of the Mechanised infantry. He has served the country for 24 years and was the second in command for 4 years. He has held few staff appointments such as Company Commander, Staff captain and was posted as an instructor in the Mechanised Infantry Regimental Centre, Ahmednagar.
He has undertaken a tedious 1400km route march known as Manipur Parikarama, which was aimed at bringing good will in the border areas. Thus he has covered entire India Burma border in just 42 days for which he was awarded the commendation letter.
During Kashmir insurgency he along with his unit was instrumental in annihilating 11 Paksitan militants and capturing a few in ANANDANAG and BUDGAM AREA during 1998-2000 insurgency operations.
He took voluntary retirement from the army in the year 2000 and as a gesture of giving back to the society, along with few associates started Kovai Defence Academy that offers pre-selection training to aspirants from the age of 9 to 26, which encourages the aspirants to join Sainik school, Military school, Rashtriya Indian Military College, National Defence Academy, Service Selection Board, AFCAT, CDSC etc.,
