Lieutenant General Rajshree Ramasethu is a former
general officer
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of the
Indian Army. She is the fifth woman in the
Indian Armed Forces and third in the Indian Army to be promoted to a
Three-star rank. She last served as the Director and Commandant of the
Armed Forces Medical College, Pune.
Early life and education
Ramasethu joined the
Armed Forces Medical College,
Pune in 1979.
Military career
Ramasethu was commissioned in the
Army Medical Corps
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in December 1983. She did her post-graduation, earning the
Doctor of Medicine degree in
Internal Medicine. She subsequently underwent super specialisation in
Nephrology
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at the
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
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.
Ramasethu has tenanted appointments of Consultant (medicine and Nephrology) at
INHS Asvini, the naval hospital in Mumbai, and the Command Hospital
Eastern Command in Kolkata.
She has also served as the Commandant of the Military Hospital, Chennai and as the Assistant Chief of the Integrated Defence Staff (Medical) (ACIDS Med) at
HQ IDS.
As a
Major General, Ramasethu served as the Senior Consultant (Medicine) in the office of the
Director General Armed Forces Medical Services (DGAFMS) in
New Delhi.
She then served as Major General Medical at the
Southern Command at
Pune.
On 16 September 2021, Ramasethu assumed the office of Director and Commandant of her alma-mater
Armed Forces Medical College, Pune in the rank of
Lieutenant General.
Awards and decorations
Ramasethu has been awarded the
Chief of the Army Staff Commendation Card three times - in 1995, 2011 and 2017.
See also
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Women in the Indian Armed Forces
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Punita Arora
Surgeon Vice Admiral (Lieutenant General) Punita Arora PVSM, SM, VSM is a former Flag Officer of the Indian Navy and the Indian Army. Arora was the first woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a Three-star rank. She held the ranks ...
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Padma Bandopadhyay
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Madhuri Kanitkar
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Sheila S. Mathai
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Arti Sarin
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References
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Indian Army personnel
Female generals of the Indian Army
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Women in 21st-century warfare
Women in war 1945–1999
Indian female military personnel
Year of birth missing (living people)
Armed Forces Medical Services officers