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   Kiran Bedi 

India’s first & highest ranking woman in the Indian Police Service

&

Voted the Most Admired Woman in India 2002

&

Woman of the year by the Tribune Readers

 

     

 

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Academics  :  

Sports :

  •   MA (Pol. Sc.), LLB, PhD & Nehru Fellow 
  • Asian & National Tennis Champion

Career Highlights :

  • Currently Posted as Director General , BPR&D (Bureau of Police Research and Development, Ministry of Home Affairs)

  • Director General, Home Guard & Civil Defence .

  • Recently returned from United Nations as Civilian Police Adviser in the Department of Peacekeeping Operation.

  • Special Commissioner, Intelligence, Delhi Police
  • Joint Commissioner of Police Training, Delhi Police
  • Inspector General Prisons, Tihar Prison, Delhi
  • Inspector General of Police, Chandigarh
  • Special Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor of Delhi

Major Awards :

  • Ramon Magsaysay Award (Philippines) for Government Service

    (Equivalent Asian Nobel Prize)

  • Joseph Beuys Foundation Award  (German) for Holistic & Innovative Management

  • Morrison Tom Gitchoff Award (USA) for actions that have significantly

          improved the quality of justice in India.

  • Pride of India Award (USA) for commitment towards Human Welfare, women’s rights, outstanding services and for upholding secular values

  • Woman of the Year Award 2002 (Italy)

  • Police Medal for Gallantry by the President of India

  • Chinmoy Award 2003 for Welfare Policing

  • In Apprececiation of Service to Humanity , Saheli , Boston  2004

  • Kiran Bedi honoured with UN medal

  • Mother Teresa Award for Social Justice, 2005

Major Invitations :

  • Three UN conferences on Drug Abuse, Women & World Social Summit
  • SAARC Workshop on Drug Trafficking at Islamabad
  • Prison Governors Association, Annual conference at Buxton, UK
  • Panelist with Nobel Laureate Prof. Amartya Sen, OSLO
  • National Prayer Breakfast meeting with President Clinton

Publications :

  • “It’s Always Possible”, a book  – on the transformation of the largest prison in the world
  • “What Went Wrong” – compilation of Real Life Stories (Now also a Serial on National Television )
  • Co-authored ‘Government@net’  on  e-governance
  • ‘I-Dare’ & ‘Kindly Baton’ (Biographies)
  • Regular Columnist National Dailies, ‘Times of India’ & ‘The Tribune’, 'Punjab Kesri' , 'Navbharat Times ' and ' The Indian Express ' ( North American Edition )

NGO’s Founded  :   

 

    To provide education, training, counseling, health care, treatment  for  drug addiction,  

          slum and rural children, adolescents and women

 

On Exceptional Interest 

Voted the Most Amired Women in India in 2002 through a nation-wide TN Sofres Mode Poll published in the " The Week  "( Sseptember 2002)

 

 
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