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Former Commandant of Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC). [90] 6 Surgeon Vice Admiral Arti Sarin AVSM, VSM Indian Navy: 5 October 2022 Current Director General Armed Forces Medical Services. First woman to serve as DGAFMS and the highest-ranking woman officer in the history of the Indian Armed Forces. [91] 7 Lieutenant General Sadhna S Nair VSM ...
The Indian Military Nursing Service becomes the Military Nursing Service (MNS), with its members given commissioned rank at par with other armed forces officers. [3] December The Naval Wing of the Women's Auxiliary Corps (India) is established, and is renamed the Women's Royal Indian Naval Service (WRINS) in February 1945.
India began recruiting women to non-medical positions in the armed forces in 1992. In 2007 on 19 January, the United Nations first all female peacekeeping force made up of 105 Indian policewomen was deployed to Liberia. [33] In 2014, India's army had 3 % women, the Navy 2.8 % and the Air Force performed best with 8.5 % women among their officers.
Women in the Pakistan Armed Forces are the female officers who serve in the Pakistan Armed Forces. [47] Pakistan is the only country in the Islamic world to have women appointed in the high ranking assignments and the general officer ranks, [48] as well as performing their military duties in the hostile and combat military operations. [48]
The following list shows group of women that are/were entitled with the title of Minister of Defence in charge in regulating the armed forces in their respective countries. The first woman ever entitled to this job was the then-Prime Minister of Ceylon, Sirimavo Bandaranaike, back in 1960s.
Shanti Tigga hailed from the Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal. She belonged to a socially marginalized Scheduled Tribe community. Several members of her family and community had been enlisted in various factions of the defence forces, which was what provided her the impetus to break glass ceilings when she enlisted in the army at age 35. [4]
She was the first woman to become a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Society of India and the first Indian woman to conduct scientific research at the North Pole. [5] She is also the first woman Armed Forces officer to have completed the Defence Services Staff College course in 1978. [6]
President of India Ram Nath Kovind (right) awarding Nari Shakti Puraskar to Seema Rao (left) on International Women's Day, 2019. Rao was ranked sixth in the 2019 Forbes India W-Power Trailblazer list. [20] She received Nari Shakti Puraskar from the President of India in 2019 [21] and is a World Peace Awardee.