Who is the first woman IAS of India?
Anna Rajam Malhotra was the first woman IAS i.e Indian Administrative Service officer of India.
Anna Rajam Malhotra belonged to the 1951 batch of the IAS and married R. N. Malhotra, who was one of her batchmate . Her husband R.N. Malhotra had served as Governor of the Reserve.
She served in the Madras State under then Chief Minister C. Rajagopalachari and at the Central government. She also accompanied our former PM Indira Gandhi on an eight-nation tour and had served in the personnel section of the Union Home Ministry. She died at the age of 91 years .
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