[1][2][3] His main training centre was Vivekananda Byamagar, Agartala.
[5][1][2] His notable students included Mantu Debnath, Bharat Kishore Debbarman, Kalpana Debnath, Bishweshwar Nandi, and others.
[2][3] Dalip Singh was from a family of farmers in Haryana.
In the mid-sixties, he was deputed to Agartala to scout for gymnastics talent.
During his visit to Agartala, he married a Manipuri doctor, Sushila Devi, in 1969 and stayed on in Tripura, having decided to work towards turning the state into the gymnastics field.