India’s First Woman IPS Officer Kiran Bedi

Kiran Bedi is the first woman IPS officer of India. Bedi is a social worker and retired IPS who retired from service in 2007 after joining the police service in 1972. She has also formed two non-governmental organizations, one of which is known as Navjyoti India Foundation and the other is known as India Vision Foundation.

Kiran Bedi Biography

Kiran Bedi was born on 9 June 1949 in Amritsar. Her father’s name is Prakashlal Peshawaria and mother’s name Premlata. Kiran Bedi did her studies from school to graduation in Amritsar. He received his Masters degree in Political Science from Punjab University. He obtained a law degree from Delhi University and in the year 1993 he received a Ph.d In 1972, she won the Asian Women’s Lawn Tennis Championship and in the same year she entered the Indian Police Academy, from where she came out as a police officer in 1974. Before joining the police service, from 1970 to 1972, Kiran Bedi started her work as a lecturer in teaching.

Commendable work

Kiran Bedi launched an NGO named Navjyoti India Foundation in 1987. This NGO has spread to other social issues like illiteracy and women empowerment with the aim of de-addiction. She also started India Vision Foundation in 1994 which works for police reforms, prison reforms, Working for women empowerment and rural and community development. She was also the host of the TV program ‘Aap Ki Kachari’, which aimed at resolving family disputes of citizens. Kiran Bedi is one of the active members of the Anna Hazare-led civil society, which has campaigned for the enactment of a strong anti-corruption law, the Jan Lokpal Bill. She has been the Asian Tennis Champion. He holds a law degree as well as a doctorate on the subject of ‘Drug Abuse and Domestic Violence‘. He has written the book ‘It’s Always Possible’ and two autobiographies ‘I Dare’ and ‘Kindly Baten’.

Political journey of Kiran Bedi

Kiran Bedi is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). She formally joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on 15 January 2015 and was nominated as BJP’s CM candidate against Arvind Kejriwal in the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections. On 22 May 2016, Bedi was appointed as the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry.

Awards

Kiran Bedi has been awarded several national and international awards for her services as follows-

1. President Galetti Award (1979)
2. Italy’s Woman of the Year Award (1980)
3. Asia Region Award (1991) given to Narv’s organization International Organization Good Templars Drug Prevention and Control
4. Mahila Shiromani Award (1995)
5. Father Machismo Humanitarian Award (1995)
6. Pride of India (1999)
7. Mother Teresa Memorial National Award (2005)
8. American Morrison-Tom Nitcock Award (2001)
9. Joseph Buys Award etc. chief of German Foundation
10. Apart from all this, Kiran Bedi was awarded the ‘Ramon Magsaysay Award’ in 1994, which is called Asia’s ‘Nobel Prize’ for her meritorious service.
11. In 2005, Kiran Bedi was awarded the title of ‘Doctor of Law’.