<![CDATA[India’s first woman in IPS – Kiran Bedi

<![CDATA[India’s first woman in IPS – Kiran Bedi - The proud Indian woman]]>India’s first Lady IPS – The proud Indian woman – Kiran Bedi

She is the first woman to join the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972.
On the 1973 Republic Day, this first lady IPS participated in a parade in front of first Indian lady Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.

People usually ask her, Why she joined IPS? She replies, “Because I want to serve the people from a position of authority so that I can serve them best.”

About her:

·Birth Date: 9^th of June 1949

·Birth Place: Amritsar, Punjab, India.

·Education:

1.School – The Sacred Heart Convent School, Amritsar.

2.B.A. (English) [1968] – The Government College for Women, Amritsar.

3.Master’s degree (Political science) [1970] – Punjab University, Chandigarh.

4.LLB [1988] – Delhi University, Delhi.

5.Ph.D. (Social Sciences) [1993] – Awarded by Department of Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

Sports:

·National junior Tennis champion at the age 16.

·Kiran Bedi is also a former all-India and all-Asian tennis champion.

·Kiran had won the Asian Ladies Title at the age of 22.

·Best athlete of her college.

Career:

·She has started her career as Lecturer in Political Science at Khalsa College for Women, Amritsar, India.

·In 1972, she was selected for the Indian Police Service. She was first lady selected for IPS.

·She has worked as Traffic Commissioner of New Delhi, Deputy Inspector General of Police in insurgency prone Mizoram, Advisor to the Lieutenant Governor of Chandigarh, Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau and also on a United Nations deputation.

·Inspector General of Prisons, Tihar Jail (Delhi).

. Director General of Bureau of Police Research and Development

Career Achievements:

·In 1977, she put an end to the Akali-Nirankari Sikh riots at India Gate.

·1979, as DCP (West Delhi), she broke up a 200-year-old illicit liquor trade.

·In 1981 as DCP (Traffic) she controlled traffic during the 1982 Asian Games efficiently. She didn’t hesitate to tow away cars and once even challenged the Prime Minister’s car for wrong parking near a car repair shop.

In 1993, as the Inspector General of Asia’s biggest jail – the Tihar jail (9100 inmates including 300 women) she turned the unlivable jail into an abode of education. Said Kiran while joining her posting at the jail, “I want to transform this jail into an Ashram within six months”. She introduced many classes and programs for the inmates including those on basic education, meditation, yoga besides functions like mushairas, kavi sammelans, dramas and games, which involved the jail inmates. For her effort to humanize the Tihar jail she was honored with the 1994 Ramon Magsaysay Award

Kiran Bedi’s voluntary retirement:

Kiran Bedi submitted her application on November 15, 2007, saying she wanted to quit to pursue “strong academic and social interests”. The government accepted retirement plea and decided to relieve Bedi, who was holding the post of the Director General of Bureau of Police Research and Development.

saferindia.com Project
After retirement Kiran Bedi launched a new website saferindia.com, on 3 January, 2007. The motto of this is to help peoples those complaints are not accepted by local police. This project is under non-government organisation India Vision Foundation. India Vision Foundation is a non-profit, voluntary, non-government organization.