Kiran Bedi (किरण बेदी)

The Indian social worker and former tennis player Kiran Bedi was born on June 9, 1949, in Amritsar, Punjab. In 1972, she became the first woman in India to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) and was 24th lieutenant governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. Before her voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General of the Bureau of Police Research and Development, she worked for 35 years' service. Her parents were Prem Lata and Prakash Lal Peshawaria. In 1966, Bedi was a teenager when he won the title of national junior tennis champion. She won a number of championships at various national and state levels between 1965 and 1978.
At the Sacred Heart Convent School in Amritsar, Bedi began her formal education in 1954. Bedi enrolled in Cambridge College, a private school, while she was in Class 9, where she received a science education and received matriculation examination. Bedi graduated from Government College for Women in Amritsar in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) in English. She received the NCC Cadet Officer Award in the same year. She graduated with a Master's in Political Science in 1970 from Chandigarh's Panjab University. Bedi lectured at Amritsar's Khalsa College for Women from 1970 to 1972. She also obtained a Bachelor of Law from the University of Delhi's Faculty of Law in 1988, as well as a Doctor of Philosophy from the IIT-Department Delhi's of Social Sciences in New Delhi, in 1993, throughout the course of her career in the Indian Police Service.


Bedi served in Delhi, Goa, Chandigarh, and Mizoram after joining the IPS. In Delhi's Chanakyapuri area, where he started his police career, he was awarded the President's Police Medal in 1979. She then relocated to West Delhi, where she successfully stopped crimes against women. He started a campaign against drug consumption while serving as the deputy commissioner of police for North Delhi, which later became the Navjyoti Delhi Police Foundation. Bedi made history as the first Indian woman to serve as Chief of the United Nations Police and Police Advisor in the United Nations Department of Peace Operations. She quit in 2007 to focus on her writing and social action. She oversees the India Vision Foundation. From 2008 to 2011, she presided over the court programme Aap Ki Kachehri. She joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in January 2015 after playing a significant role in India's 2011 anti-corruption drive. In the 2015 Delhi Assembly elections, she stood for Chief Minister on the party's slate, however she lost. On the tennis courts in Amritsar, she met her future husband, Brij Bedi.

On March 9, 1972, the couple exchanged vows in a small ceremony at the neighborhood pagoda temple. A daughter was born to the couple in 1975. Originally named Sukriti, she eventually changed her name to Saina. One of the first things the lieutenant governor did was to make the Raj Niwas the "People's Niwas" by opening the gates to the public. The public may come to the Raj Niwas from Monday through Wednesday at 5 p.m. to meet the Lieutenant Governor in person and voice their complaints as part of a procedure he called "Open House." Kiran Bedi performed several services for the general public when she was employed, which is admirable. His legacy is truly unbeatable. Arorakhatri.com wishes him for his all the best for his future.
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