Question

The only lady Governor of Madhya Pradesh is
1. Padmaja Naidu
2. Sheila Kaul
3. Sharda Mukherjee
4. Sarla Grewal

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Sarla Grewal

The correct answer is Sarla Grewal.

• Sarla Grewal was the first female Governor of Madhya Pradesh.
• She held the office from 1989 to 1990.
• She was the second female Indian Administrative Service officer in India when she joined IAS in 1952.
• She was the principal Secretary for the former Prime Minister of India, Rajiv Gandhi.
• She held Shimla's first Deputy Commissioner, Secretary to Prime Minister at WHO, and UNICEF. 

• Sheila Kaul:
  • She had been a Union Minister and Delhi’s chief minister.
• Sharda Mukherjee:
  • She was a former member of the Lok Sabha.
  • She was the former governor of Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. 
• Padmaja Naidu:
  • In 1956 she was appointed the Governor of West Bengal.
  • At the age of 21, she co-founded the Indian National Congress in the Nizam ruled the princely state of Hyderabad.