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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.
For more information on her visit
www.kiranbedi.com and her latest initiative on
police reforms,
www.saferindia.com
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.
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Kiran
Bedi's current favorite destination on the
web is
www.kyazoonga.com
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startup headed by her God-daughter
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