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Kiran
Bedi, Ph.D, is India’s first and highest ranking
(retired in 2007) woman officer who joined the
Indian Police Service in 1972. Her experience and
expertise include more than 35 years of tough,
innovative and welfare policing.
She has worked with the United Nations as the
Police
Advisor to the Secretary General, in the Department of
Peace Keeping Operations. She has represented India at
the United Nations, and in International forums on
crime prevention, drug abuse, police and prison reforms
and women’s issues.
She has also
been a National and an Asian Tennis champion.
Recipient of the prestigious
Ramon Magsaysay Award (also called the Asian Nobel
Prize), and several other decorations, Dr. Bedi is an
author of several books, anchors radio and television
shows and is a columnist with leading newspapers and
magazines.
She is a sought after speaker on
social, professional and leadership issues.
She is
the founder of two NGOs,
Navjyoti and
India Vision Foundation, which reach out to
over 10,000 beneficiaries daily, in the areas of
drug abuse treatment, schooling for children of
prisoners, in addition to education, training,
counseling, and health care to the urban and rural poor.
Kiran Bedi has been voted as India's most admired woman
and fifth amongst all Indians.
Information about her latest initiative on
police reforms
(www.indiapolice.in) ,
www.saferindia.com
An online survey to identity the 100 most trusted Indians - By Reader's Digest .Dr. Bedi is ranked 3rd most trusted Indian in the country.
In
polls conducted by the "The Week "(
2002) Kiran Bedi
was voted as the most admired woman in the country,
5th most admired
Indian
and one
of the 15 Indian Icons of 2006.
A non fiction
feature film on Dr Kiran bedi's life entitled
Yes, Madam Sir has been produced by Australian film maker, Megan Doneman. This
film is being screened in film festivals around the
world. Its commentator is an Academy Award winner,
Helen Mirren. Dr Kiran Bedi was present during
its screenings in Toronto, Dubai and Adelaide, and to
address the Q&A sessions at the end of each show.
Every time it has been screened, it has received a
standing ovation.
The documentary has made a clean
sweep of the award categories---“Best Documentary”
with a cash award of $100,000, the biggest prize for
a documentary for any film festival in the US and the
Social Justice Award with $2500.00 at Santa
Barbara International Film Festival. ‘Yes Madam
Sir’ got a unanimous vote from the jury
visit for more
information: (
www.yesmadamsir.com)
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