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Anjana Bhaduria, who joined the first-ever batch of female cadets in 1992 at the Officers Training Academy, Chennai, is the first female officer in the Indian Army to win the gold medal. Including Priya Jhingan and her, the first batch of women officers of the Indian Army was commissioned in March 1993.
Priya has always been a strong advocate for women being given equal roles as men in the Indian Army . She defended the women in Indian Army as a right over the controversial suicide of Lieutenant Sushmita Chakravarty in which the then Vice-Chief of Army Staff, Lt Gen S Pattabhiraman had to apologize for an insensitive remark about women in the ...
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
Lieutenant General Sadhna Saxena Nair VSM is a serving general officer in the Indian Army. [1] She currently serves as the Director General Medical Services (Army), the first woman to be appointed to the position. [2] [3] She is the seventh woman officer to be promoted to three-star rank in the Indian Armed Forces.
Captain Divya Ajith Kumar is an Army Air Defense (AAD) officer in the Indian Army. She graduated from the Officers Training Academy, Chennai. [1] Kumar is the first woman to be conferred by the Army with the Sword of Honour, a prize given to the best cadet. [2] She led an all-woman contingent of 154 female officers and cadets during the ...
Mitali Madhumita is the second woman officer in the Indian Army to receive a gallantry award. [1] The first woman officer to be awarded Sena Medal for gallantry is Capt (Dr) CR Leena in 1995.
Lieutenant General Dr. Madhuri Kanitkar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM is a retired General Officer in the Indian Army.She is the third woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a Three-star rank, after Surgeon Vice Admiral Punita Arora and Air Marshal Padma Bandopadhyay. [1]
Abhilasha Barak is an officer in the Indian Army from Haryana. She completed her graduation from Delhi Technological University in 2016. She did her training from Officers Training Academy Chennai in 2017. She is known for becoming the first woman combat aviator in the Indian Army in 2022.