Question

Name India's first woman to join the Indian Police Service (IPS) and who assumed the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry in May 2016.
1. Meera Borwankar
2. Archana Ramasundaram
3. Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya
4. Kiran Bedi

Answer 1

Correct Answer - Option 4 : Kiran Bedi

The correct answer is Kiran Bedi.

• Kiran Bedi is an Indian politician, retired Indian Police Service (IPS) officer and a social activist.

• She was the first Indian woman to join the Indian Police Service officer and started her service in 1972.
• She served for 35 years and took voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director-General, Bureau of Police Research and Development.
• She assumed the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry in May 2016.
• She has introduced several best practices in Puducherry in order to make the Union Territory of Puducherry a Prosperous Puducherry" .
• One of the first practices she introduced as the Lieutenant Governor was to open the gates of Raj Nivas to the public and other was ‘Mission Water Rich Puducherry’.