KIRAN BEDI

She was the first Indian woman to join the Indian Police Services.
Born: June 9, 1949 at Amritsar in Punjab.

Education
Schooling from the Sacred Heart Convent School in Amritsar.
Graduation in the English language from the Government College for Women in Amritsar. Masters degree in Political Science from Punjab University, Chandigarh.
1988, she obtained a degree in Law (LLB) from Delhi University.
1993, the Department of Social Sciences, the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi awarded her with a Ph .D. degree. Her topic of research was Drug Abuse and Domestic Violence.
Kiran Bedi has won the championship of all India and all- Asian tennis competition.When she was 22 years old, she won the Asian Ladies Title.

Career
1970, lecturer at Khalsa College for Women in Amritsar.
Two years later, she joined the Indian Police Services.
All the way through her career, she has taken up a number of challenging assignments.
Traffic Commissioner of New Delhi,
Deputy Inspector General of Police in the insurgency prone area of Mizoram.
Lieutenant Governor of Chandigarh and Director General of Narcotics Control Bureau.
Kiran Bedi made the Indian Police Service change its decision in matters related to traffic management, control over narcotics and VIP security. During her tenure as the Inspector General of Tihar Jail, she brought about several reforms in the way the prisons are managed. She brought forth a number of measures like yoga, meditation, redressal of complaints made by the prisoners etc.
Kiran Bedi laid the foundation for the establishment of two voluntary organizations, namely, Navajyoti (1988) & India Vision Foundation (1994). These organizations were primarily set up with the aim of improving the living conditions of the drug addicts and the underprivileged people.The effort of Kiran Bedi has paid and brought her worldwide recognition. Her works have always earned appreciation. For drug abuse prevention, her organization was presented with the Serge Soitiroff Memorial Award by the United Nations.

Awards
President's Gallantry Award (1979)
Women of the Year Award (1980)
Asia Region Award for Drug Prevention and Control (1991)
Magsaysay Award for Government Service (1994)
Mahila Shiromani Award (1995)
Father Machismo Humanitarian Award (1995)
Lion of the Year (1995)
Joseph Beuys Award (1997)
Pride of India (1999)
Mother Teresa Memorial National Award for Social Justice (2005)