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Former Commandant of Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC). [90] 6 Surgeon Vice Admiral Arti Sarin AVSM, VSM Indian Navy: 5 October 2022 Current Director General Armed Forces Medical Services. First woman to serve as DGAFMS and the highest-ranking woman officer in the history of the Indian Armed Forces. [91] 7 Lieutenant General Sadhna S Nair VSM ...
The Indian Military Nursing Service becomes the Military Nursing Service (MNS), with its members given commissioned rank at par with other armed forces officers. [3] December The Naval Wing of the Women's Auxiliary Corps (India) is established, and is renamed the Women's Royal Indian Naval Service (WRINS) in February 1945.
She has also been Professor at Dept of Pathology, Armed Forces Medical College (AFMC), Pune. [6] [7] Prior to assuming charge as the DGMS (Navy), she was the First woman Commandant of AMC Centre & College and Officer-in-Charge Records. She is the first woman officer to be elected as Colonel Commandant of Army Medical Corps. She has a special ...
India began recruiting women to non-medical positions in the armed forces in 1992. In 2007 on 19 January, the United Nations first all female peacekeeping force made up of 105 Indian policewomen was deployed to Liberia. [33] In 2014, India's army had 3 % women, the Navy 2.8 % and the Air Force performed best with 8.5 % women among their officers.
In addition to women in the armed forces, an unknown number of civilian women served in Vietnam on behalf of the Red Cross, United Service Organizations (USO), Catholic Relief Services and other humanitarian organizations, or as foreign correspondents for various news organizations.
President of India Ram Nath Kovind (right) awarding Nari Shakti Puraskar to Seema Rao (left) on International Women's Day, 2019. Rao was ranked sixth in the 2019 Forbes India W-Power Trailblazer list. [20] She received Nari Shakti Puraskar from the President of India in 2019 [21] and is a World Peace Awardee.
She was the first woman to become a Fellow of the Aerospace Medical Society of India and the first Indian woman to conduct scientific research at the North Pole. [5] She is also the first woman Armed Forces officer to have completed the Defence Services Staff College course in 1978. [6]
Arti Sarin was appointed Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS), the senior-most appointment of the Armed Forces Medical Services, on 1 October 2024; this made her the first woman to serve as DGAFMS and the highest-ranking woman officer in the history of the Indian Armed Forces. [396] [397]