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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.
In 1992, the Indian Army began inducting women officers in non-medical roles. [26] On 19 January 2007, the United Nations first all female peacekeeping force made up of 105 Indian policewomen was deployed to Liberia. [27] In 2014, India's army had 3% women, the Navy 2.8% and the Air Force performed highest with 8.5% women. [28]
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.
Officers Training Academy, Gaya:- OTA Gaya, raised in July 2011, is the third pre-commission training (PCT) academy of the Indian Army with a planned training capacity of 750 cadets. It imparts pre commission military training to regular army officers from Technical and SCO entries.
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
Until 1993, 67 percent of the positions in the Army were open to women. In 2013, 15.6 percent of the Army's 1.1 million soldiers, including National Guard And Reserve, were female, serving in 95 percent of occupations. [82] As of 2017, 78 percent of the positions in the Army were open to women.
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 ...
Pages in category "Female generals of the Indian Army" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.