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Leader• "Successful Women in Management"(SWIM) conference,2007• Born June 9, 1949 (age 63) Amritsar, Punjab, India

Alma mater• Punjab University, Chandigarh• University of Delhi• IIT Delhi• IPS Officer (1972–2007)

Awards• Suryadatta National Award 2007 • United Nations Medal 2004 • Ramon Magsaysay Award 1994 • President’s Gallantry Award 1979

History

• Indian social activist and a retired police officer.

• She joined the police service in 1972 and became the first

woman officer in the IPS.

• she held the post of Director General at the Bureau of Police

Research and Development

• she was the host and judge of the popular TV series, "Your

Court", which is based on real-life disputes

Profile

• she has been India’s first and highest (woman) ranking officer

who joined the Indian Police Service in 1972.

• She worked with the United Nations in New York as the

Police Advisor to the Secretary

• MA(Eng) – 1970, BL – 1988, Ph.D. – 1993 (Drug Abuse and

Domestic Violence)

• She is an author of many books, has her biography I Dare

• She won the All-Asian Tennis Championship, and won the

Asian Ladies Title at the age of 22.

• She is also a Nehru Fellow (post doctoral) -- Been a National

and an Asian Tennis champion.

• She is a recipient of the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award

(also called the Asian Nobel Prize), and several other national

and international decorations.

• She is the founder of two NGOs, Navjyoti and India Vision

Foundation, which reach out to thousands of under -served

children, women and men

• Currently her NGOs are running four Community Colleges.

Rewards

• She has been voted as India's most admired (THE WEEK

2002) and most trusted woman in India

• A nonfiction film of her life entitled “Yes, Madam Sir” The

film was adjudged the “Best Documentary” at Santa Barbara

International Film Festival.

• Currently, she has been in the vanguard of a nationwide, India

Against Corruption, a movement led by Shri Anna Hazare

Traffic Control Officer -Delhi • She worked nonstop for 19 hours every day to control the

traffic.

• As a first step she began assessing traffic signal errors.

• She rented available cranes in the city and began towing

vehicles

• She made sure that the planning, organization and the city

development efforts were coordinated with traffic plans by

collaborating with MCD, DDA, DESU and NATPAC

THANK YOU

Narendra Kumar S