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Deosthalee was commissioned into the Indian Navy in 2009. A Naval air observer, she served on the P-8I, a maritime reconnaissance aircraft. She later became the first female Observer on the Tupolev Tu-142. [1] She served as the First Lieutenant of the Kolkata-class destroyer INS Chennai (D65). [2]
Priya Jhingan becomes the first female cadet in the Indian Army upon entering the Officers Training Academy in Chennai. [14] 28 November The Indian Navy becomes the first armed force to commission women in non-medical streams (Education, Logistics and Naval Law), commissioning its first 22 short-service commission female officers. [20] December
The Indian Air Force had 13.09% female officers in 2018 and 8.50% female officers in 2014; the Indian Navy had 6% female officers in 2018 and 3% female officers in 2014 and the Indian Army had 3.80% female officers in 2018 and 3% female officers in 2014.
Radhika Menon is an Indian female Merchant Navy officer currently serving as the captain of the Indian Merchant Navy. [1] She is also the first female captain of the Indian Merchant Navy who also led the oil products tanker Suvarna Swarajya. In 2016, Radhika also became the first woman to receive the IMO Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea. [2]
She is one amongst the Indian Navy's first batch of three women pilots for Maritime Reconnaissance (MR) missions on Dornier aircraft. [8] [9] She hails from Tilhar, Uttar Pradesh, India. Her father Cdr. Gyan Swaroop is a naval officer and her mother Mrs.Kalpana Swaroop is a teacher at Navy Children School, Karwar. [10] [11]
The two women officers will become the first from India to accomplish such a feat in double-handed mode. [8] They are: Lt Cdr Roopa A is from Pondicherry. She joined the Indian Navy in June 2017. Her father is G. P. Alagirisamy, who served in the Indian Air Force. [9] Lt Cdr Dilna K [10] is from Kozhikode, Kerala.
Surgeon Vice Admiral Kavita Sahai, SM, VSM is a serving flag officer in the Indian Navy. She is the eighth woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a Three-star rank, and the fourth to hold the rank of Lieutenant General. She currently serves as the Director General Medical Services (Navy).
Cabinet Member, State Minister for Labour and Social Welfare – Bhadra Kumari Ghale – 1982 [226] Minister of Industry and Trade – Sahana Pradhan – 1990; Minister of Forests and Soil Conservation – Sahana Pradhan – 1996 [226] Minister of Women and Welfare – Sahana Pradhan – 1997; Deputy Prime Minister – Shailaja Acharya – 1998 ...