First Woman in India

First Woman in India

  President of Republic of India—Smt. Pratibha Patil

  Prime Minister—Indira Gandhi

 Woman (India and World) who crossed English Channel 

through Swimming—Arati Shah

  Governor—Sarojini Naidu (U. P.)

  I. P. S.—Kiran Bedi

  President of National Congress—Annee Besant

 Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission—

Rose William Baithu

  Winner of Nobel Prize—Mother Terresa (for peace)

  Awardee of Miss World—Rita Faria

  Awardee of Miss Universe—Sushmita Sen

  Mayor—Tara Charian [Madras (Now Chennai) 1957]

  Minister in Central Cabinet—Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

 Chief Minister—Sucheta Kriplani

Parliamentarian—Radhabai Subbarayan (1938)

 Judge of Supreme Court—Justice Meera Sahib Fatima Bibi

 Chief Justice of High Court—Justice Leela Seth (Himachal

Pradesh)

 Session Judge of the Country—Anna Chandi (Kerala)

 Mountaineer who climbed (Conquered) the Mt. 

Everest— Bacchendri Pal

 Awardee of Norman Borlaug Prize—Dr. Amrita Patil

 Literature who was awarded the Sahitya Akademi 

award—Amrita Pritam (1956)

 Honoured with ‘Bharat Ratna’—Indira Gandhi

 Awardee of Lenin peace award—Aruna Asaf Ali

 Awardee of Gayanpeeth Puraskar—Asha Purna Devi

(1976)

 Woman who reached ‘Antarctica’—Mahel Musa (1977)

 Woman who reached to North Pole—Pritisu Gupta (1993)

 Woman who travelled Allround the world—Ujjawala 

Patil (1988) by Boat

 Chief Engineer—P. K. Tresia Naguli

 Pilot—Flying Officer Sushma Mukhopaddhyaya

 Air Lines Pilot—Capt. Durga Banerjee

 Commander of Boeing 737 Plane—Capt. Saudamini

Deshmukh

 Paratrooper of Indian Air Force—Geeta Ghosh

 I. A. S.—Auna George Malhotra

 First television news broadcaster—Pratima Puri

 Participated in mustic programme of U.N.O.—M. S.

Subbuluxmi (1966)

 Woman participated in Olympic games—Meri Lila Row

(1952)

 Woman who won the medal in Olympic games—

Malleshwari (weightlifting—Sydney)

 Woman who won the Gold Medal in Asian games—

Kamaljeet Sidhu (1970, 400 metre)

 Woman who won the medal in Commonwealth games—

Anil Ghiya and Kawal Thakur Singh (woman Doubles 

 Badminton, 1978)

 Medal winner in International Athletic Championship—

Anju B. George (2003 Paris)

 Grandmaster winner in Chess—Bhagiya Sri Thipsey

(1988)

 One hundred wicket taker in International Women 

Cricket—Indulgi (1986)

 Awardee of Arjun Puraskar—N. Lamsden (Hockey, 1961)

 Woman who made hat-trick in football—Youlanda- de-

Suza (1978)

 Awardee of Ashok Chakra—Neerja Bhanot (Posthumously)

 Awardee of Sena Medal—Vimla Devi (1988)

 Degree of graduation—Kadambni Ganguly (Bose) and

Chandramukhi Bose (Kolkata University, 1883)

 Awardee of B.E. degree —Ella-Majumdar (1951)

 M.B.B.S. Degree awardee—Vidhumuti Bose and Virginia

Mitter (Kolkata Medical College)

 First Surgeon—Dr. Prema Mukherjee

 Deputy Governor of Reserve Bank—K. J. Udesi (2003)

 Chairman of NABARD—Ranjana Kumar

 D.I.G. (Police)—Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya

 Lieutenant General—Punita Arora

Chairman of Indian Air lines—Shushma Chawla

  Barrister—Cornonia Sorabji (Allahabad High Court - 1923)

  Advocate—Regina Guha

  Ambassador—Vijayalaxmi Pandit (U.S.S.R.-1947)

 Woman who crossed over Gibralter Strait by 

Swimming— Arati Pradhan

  World Record in Powerlifting—Sumita Laha (1989)

 Represented the nation in all three games (Cricket, 

Hockey and Basketball)—Shrin Khushro Kiyasa

 First Commercial test Pilot of the world—Capt. Surun

Darsi and Capt. Rose Lopar

  Pilot of Indian Air Force—Harita Daoel

  Twice scaled the Mt. Everest—Santosh Yadav

  Ramon Magsaysay Prize awardee—Kiran Bedi

 Heroin awarded Dada Sahaib Phalke Prize—Devika Rani

Rorik

 Youngest woman who scaled the Mt. Everest twice—

Decky Dolma

 Scientist who was awarded Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar 

award—Ashima Chatterjee

  Foreign Secretary—Chokila Ayyar

 First Chief Secretary of the Country—Nirmla Buch First

Space traveller—Kalpana Chawla

  Joint Director of C.B.I.— Archana Sunder Lingam

  Winner of Murti Devi Prize—Pratibha Rai

 Woman contested the Presidential election—Capt. Laxmi

Sahgal

 Air Vice-Marshal and Air-Marshal in Indian Air Force—

P. Bandyopadhyay

  Non-military Police Advisor in U.N.O.—Kiran Bedi

  Revenue Secretary—Vinita Rai

  Referee in Boxing—Rajia Sabnam

 First woman of Indian origin who stayed for the longest 

time in space—Sunita William