Tuesday
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been able to sit even for a moment today.
a matter of great pride for me that
receiving the Magsaysay Award.
told my team
that
always work for the betterment of the
prisoners.
a part of our society and
to see that they live a life full of respect.
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With an impressive repository of work, the most stellar of which is prison reforms in one of the toughest jails in Asia, she is idolised by young girls and women. Bedi has been credited with becoming the first woman IPS officer, making her way into essentially a male bastion.
The tallest achievement of this fiery woman from Amritsar is the makeover she gave Tihar jail when she took charge as the first female Inspector General of the prison. In a tenure lasting from 1993 to 1995, her efforts brought a visible turnaround of the premises and its inmates.
She was armed with a reputation of no-nonsense officer when she joined as IG, Tihar. Her style of working — which included not taking ‘no’ for an answer and seeing everyone as equal before law — earned her the moniker of ‘Crane Bedi’. Legend has it that as Delhi’s Deputy Commissioner of Police, Traffic, she once towed away then prime minister Indira Gandhi’ car when it was parked illegally.