First Indian Women

First Woman in India

●Prime-Minister—Indira Gandhi

●Woman (India and World) who crossed English Channel through Swimming—Arti Shah

●Governor—Sarojini Naidu (U. P.)

●I. P. S.—Kiran Bedi

●President of National Congress—Anne Besant

●Chairman of the Union Public Service Commission—Rose-William Baithu

●Winner of Nobel Prize—Mother Teresa (for peace)

●Awardee of Miss World—Reeta Farhia

●Awardee of Miss Universe—Sushmita Sen

●Mayer—Tara Charian (Madras-1957)

●Minister in Central Cabinet—Rajkumari Amrit Kaur

●Chief Minister—Sucheta Kriplani

●Parliamentrian—Radhabai Subbarayan (1938)

●Judge of Supreme Court—Justice Meera Sahaib Fatima Bibi

●Chief Justice of High Court—Justice Leela Seth (Himachal Pradesh)

●Session Judge of the Counting—Anna Chandi (Kerala)

●Mountaineer who climbed (Conquered) the Mt.Everest—Bacchendri Pal

●Awardee of Norman Barlog 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 Jananpith Purshkar—Asha Purna Devi (1976)

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

●Woman who reached the North Pole—Pritisu Gupta (1993)

●Woman who travelled All round 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 (weight lifting—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 Thispey (1988)

●One hundred wicket taker in International Cricket—Indulgi (1986)

●Awardee of Arjun Purskar—N. Lamsden (Hockey, 1961)

●Woman who made hat-trick in football—Youlandade-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 (KolkataMedicalCollege)

●First Surgeon—Dr. Prema Mukherjee

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

●Chairman of NABARD—Ranjana Kumar

●D. I. G. (Police)—Kanchan Chaudhry 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 GibralterStrait 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. Bondyopaddhyay

●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