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II. Now read the clues and name these women personalities based on their
23 Women power achievements.

1. She is an Indian boxer from Manipur. She is a five times World Amateur
I. Look at these famous Indian women. Can you identify them? Choose the Boxing Champion and winner of the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer

correct letter from the clue box to name them. Olympics. In 2016, she was nominated as a member of the Rajya Sabha.

1 2 3 2. She was India’s first IPS (Indian Police Service) officer. For more than
35 years she has contributed in reforming policing and prison
management.

3. She is the first woman scientist to head a missile project in India. She is
known as the ‘Missile Woman of India’.

4. She is the Chief Executive Officer of one of the largest private sector
banks in India. She played an important role in shaping retail banking in
India.
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5. She is an Indian mountaineer who in 1984 became the first Indian woman
to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

6. She was an Indian writer and mathematical genius popularly known as
the ‘Human Computer’.

7. She was a Carnatic vocalist and the first musician ever to be awarded
the Bharat Ratna award.

7 8 9 8. She is an Indian banker and the first woman to be the chairperson
of State Bank of India, India’s largest public sector bank.

9. She was an Indian politician and diplomat. She was also the first
woman to be the President of the United Nations General Assembly.

Info-bites

Meet this trio – three female fighter pilots –
a. Bachendri Pal d. Shakuntala Devi g. M.S. Subbulakshmi Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth and Mohana
b. Vijayalakshmi Pandit e. Kiran Bedi h. Tessy Thomas Singh have been inducted in the Indian Air Force

c. Chanda Kochhar f. Arundhati Bhattacharya i. Mary Kom (Fighter Plane Squad) in 2016. They shall soon
fly fighter jets like the Sukhoi and Tejas.

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