A former Commander of the Indian Navy and a glider pilot, Mr Praful Tayal has done his Graduation (Civil engineering) from M.I.T Manipal and Post-Graduation (Naval Construction) from  I.I.T Delhi. He had been associated with the successful construction of “Corvettes”, designed indigenously for the first time at Mazagon Dockyard Ltd, Bombay. Mr. Tayal established a milestone in the history of Defence R & D Organization by getting the unique “Marine Acoustic Research Ship” built at Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Ltd. , Kolkata with German and U.S assistance. He was Project Leader for successfully setting up not only the hydrodynamic testing facility called “Cavitation Tunnel” , but also for distress major repairs of a “Submarine Mother Depot Ship” at the Cochin Shipyard Ltd, Cochin. As a Commander, he was posted at Naval Dockyard, Bombay where he headed Design and Documentation Bureau and was Manager at Yard Crafts. Mr. Tayal was associated with Acquisition Programmes of Naval Warships from Poland and Russia for “Landing Ship Tanks-773J-M” and “1241 – RE Missile Boats” respectively. He had worked in the Indian Naval Dockyards of Bombay and Visakhapatnam in planning, production and design and international Naval Dockyards of Poland, Poti, Zvevdochka Shipyard at Severodwinck and Krylov Shipbuilding Research Institute. For ten years , he had been closely associated with CIWTC Ltd. (Central Inland Water Transportation Corporation Ltd.) as CMD. During this tenure, he had accomplished notable feats like developing the Rajabagan Dockyard ; handing over Defence for warship production to GRSE Ltd, Kolkata and maintaining healthy labour-owner relationships.