Female Officer in other Armed Forces

Notable female officers who served in past as well as serving now:

• Women will be prohibited from serving in combat formations like infantry, mechanized infantry, armored corps, and artillery as of 2020.
• On 27^th August 1976, Gertrude Alice Ram, the Matron-in-Chief of the military nursing service, became the first-ever woman officer in the Indian Army to be promoted to the major-general and the first-ever woman officer in the Indian Armed Forces to be advanced to the two-star rank. With Ram's promotion, India joined the United States and France as the only countries in the world to elevate a woman to the rank of flag officer.
• The Indian Army started inducting women officers in non-medical areas in 1992. The United Nations' first all-female peacekeeping team, made up of 105 Indian policewomen, arrived in Liberia on 19^th January 2007. Ruchi Sharma joined the Indian Army as the first operational paratrooper in 1996.
• Priya Jhingan was one of the first 25 women to be commissioned into the Indian Army as an officer in 1993. Alka Khurana, who was even commissioned in the year 1993, was the first-ever woman to march in the Republic Day of Indian Army and Army Day parades in the year 1994. Sapper Shanti Tigga is the Indian Army's first female jawan (private rank), having joined in 2011.
• Priya Semwal's husband was killed in a counter-insurgency operation in Arunachal Pradesh in 2012, and she went on to become the first wife of a jawan killed in a counter-insurgency action to join the Indian Army Corps of EME.
• Lieutenant Colonel Mitali Madhumita, commissioned in 2000, is India's first female officer to receive a gallantry award, receiving the Sena Medal in the year 2011 for exemplary bravery displayed during the time of terrorist attack on the Indian embassy located in Kabul on 26^th February 2010, and operations in Jammu & Kashmir and the north-east states.
• Anjana Bhaduria, the first female officer in the Indian Army, was a member of the first batch of female cadets at the Officers Training Academy in Chennai in 1992. The first batch of women officers in the Indian Army, which included Priya Jhingan and her, was commissioned in March 1993. Divya Ajith Kumar, the first female officer to obtain the Sword of Honor, was commissioned in 2010. During the 2015 Republic Day parade, she led an all-female troop of 154 female officers and cadets.
• Swati Singh, an engineer and also the only women officer in the Indian Army's 63 Brigade, was the first-ever female officer which is to be posted to the Signals in-charge position at Nathu La pass.
• Madhuri Kanitkar became the Indian Army's third female Lieutenant General in February 2020. They will be the first pair to both achieve the rank of Lieutenant General, along with her husband, who is also a Lieutenant General.
• The Supreme Court of India ruled on February 17, 2020, that women officers in the Indian Army can hold command positions on par with male officers. The government's arguments against it, according to the court, were discriminatory, distressing, and based on stereotypes. The court further stated that all women, regardless of years of service, should be eligible for permanent commission and that this order must be executed within three months. The administration had previously stated that women would not be accepted as commanding officers by the army. As a result, eight more corps or branches began to commission women as commissioned officers.
• Ganeve Lalji, a member of the Corps of Military Intelligence, is the first female attaché to an Army Commander.
• Women are not yet permitted to serve as combatants in combat specialty forces such as the Ghatak Force, Garud Commando Force, MARCOS, para commandos, and others, as of 2020.
• Seema Rao, widely known as "India's Wonder Woman," is the country's first female commando trainer, having trained over 15,000 Indian Special Forces (including the NSG Black Cats, MARCOS, and GARUD) as a full-time guest trainer for 20 years without pay as a pioneer in close-quarter fighting (CQB).
• General duty, pilot, and law officers are among the officer ranks available to women in the Indian Coast Guard. In January 2017, the Indian Coast Guard became the first force to deploy four female officers in combat roles on board the KV Kuber hovercraft ship patrolling the Indian maritime zone bordering Pakistan and Bangladesh, assistant commandants Anuradha Shukla, Sneha Kathyat, Shirin Chandran, and Vasundhara Chouksey.
• For the first time, roughly 30 riflewomen from the Assam Rifles were deployed along the LoC in August 2020. Capt. Gursimran Kaur of the ASC (Army Service Corps) is heading them.
• Shakti Squad is a female squad of the Railway Protection Force (RPF). Debashmita Chattopadhyay became the first-ever female ASC (Assistant Security Commissioner) in the RPF in the year 2015, taking command of the Shakti squad of the RPF women constables.
• Vaishali S Hiwase became the first female commanding officer of a BRO Road Construction Company on the India-China Border Roads in June 2021.

Download the BYJU’S Exam Prep App Now

The Most Comprehensive Exam Prep App

#DreamStriveSucceed