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The first woman IAS officer of Independent India, [1] Joshi was posted as Magistrate and then as Assistant Commissioner in Delhi. [2] She held senior and honorable positions in various departments and became the Commissioner-cum-State-Editor of the District Gazette until 1996. [2] She served in senior roles in the Ministry of Education. She ...
As Chairperson, Nhava Sheva Port Trust, Anna Malhotra was responsible for building India's first computerised port, Nhavasheva, in Mumbai [2] [4] and was also the first woman to serve as a Secretary to the Government of India. [4] She was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1989. [5] [4] Malhotra died in September 2018 at the age of 91. [6]
Kiran Bedi PPMG PNBB (born 9 June 1949) is a former tennis player who became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021.
Parveen Talha retired from the Revenue Service in 2004 as the senior most woman officer of the Customs and Central Excise and on 30 September 2004, became a member of the Union Public Service Commission. Talha was the first IRS officer and Muslim woman to become a member of UPSC. [1] [3] [8] She retired from Government service on 3 October 2009.
1st Indian Governor of Reserve Bank of India; Finance Minister of India: Muhammad Saleh Akbar Hydari Jr. (later Sir) 1918 1919 Governor of Assam: Sukumar Sen: 1919 1921 Chief Election Commissioner of India Subhas Chandra Bose: 1920 1921 1921(Resignation) 4th Y. N. Sukthankar (later CIE) 1921 Second Cabinet Secretary of India: Sudhansu Kumar Das ...
Muthamma was first posted to the Indian Embassy at Paris. [6] She also went on to serve as a diplomat in Rangoon, London, and on the Pakistan and America Desks in the Ministry of External Affairs in New Delhi. [7] She was appointed India's Ambassador to Hungary in 1970. She thus became the first woman from within the service to be appointed ...
After graduating, she joined IAS in 1952. Then in 1956, she was the Deputy Commissioner and was the first woman in India to be appointed to the post nationwide. She was awarded the British Council Scholarship at LSE on social services in developing countries, with special emphasis on health, education and society welfare schemes.
She participated in daily chores including dairy work and spinning. She also worked in the office that used to publish Young India. [6] Pandit was the first Indian woman to hold a cabinet post in pre-independent India. In 1936, she stood in general elections and became a member of parliament by 1937 for the constituency of Cawnpore Bilhaur. [7]