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Madhuri Kanitkar
Lieutenant General Dr. Madhuri Kanitkar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM is a retired General Officer in the Indian Army. She is the third woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a Three-star rank, after Lieutenant General Punita Arora and Air Marshal Padma Bandopadhyay. She served as the Deputy Chief of Integrated Defence Staff (Medical) under the Chief of Defence Staff. Kanitkar also serves on the Prime Minister's Science, Technology and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC). On 6 July 2021, she was appointed the Vice-Chancellor of the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, Nashik by the Governor of Maharashtra. She took over this appointment after retiring from the Army in October 2021. Early life and education She was born into a Goud Saraswat Brahmin family, with three daughters, in Dharwad , Karnataka 1960. Her grandmother and grandfather were both medical doctors. She joined the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune in 1978. She placed first in Pune University in al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Padma Bandopadhyay
Air Marshal Padma Bandopadhyay, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, PHS (born 4 November 1944) is a decorated former flight surgeon in the Indian Air Force. She was the first woman to be promoted to the rank of Air Marshal in the Indian Air Force. She is the second woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a three-star rank, after Surgeon Vice Admiral Punita Arora. Early life Bandopadhyay was born as Padmavathy Swaminathan on 4 November 1944 at Tirupati (city), Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh into a Tamil language, Tamil speaking Iyer family. When Padma was four or five years old, her mother contracted tuberculosis and eventually became bedridden. As a result, Padma's thoughts have been consumed with medical difficulties since she was a small child, and she also took on the role of her mother's primary caretaker while she was still quite young. In addition, her neighbor in the Gole Market neighborhood in New Delhi was Dr. S. I. Padmavati, Professor of Medicine at Lady Hardinge Medical Colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
