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The Navy clears the induction of women as commissioned officers in the Air Traffic Controller (ATC) stream. [21] 6 March Priya Jhingan becomes the first woman army officer to be commissioned in a non-medical branch, receiving her commission as a second lieutenant in the Judge Advocate General's (JAG) Department.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
The first woman officer to be awarded Sena Medal for gallantry is Capt (Dr) CR Leena in 1995. Colonel Mitali Madhumita received the Sena Medal in 2011 [ 1 ] for exemplary courage shown during the attack on the Indian embassy by terrorists in Kabul , Afghanistan on 26 February 2010,when she was a Major [ 2 ] and operations in Jammu-Kashmir [ 1 ...
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.
Shergill belongs to an Indian Army family background where her father served the 101 Medium Regiment and later in CRPF where he was awarded with a PPMG. Shergill's grandfather served in the 14th Armoured Regiment (Scinde Horse). Her great grandfather was in the Sikh Regiment. Shergill also lead the Army's contingent during the Republic Day ...