IAF`s first women fighter pilots |
India`s Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar formally commissioned India`s first three women fighter pilots - Bhawana Kanth, Avani Chatuvedi and Mohana Singh - along with flight cadets of various branches of the Indian Air Force at the Air Force Academy in Dundigal on June 18, 2016.Flight cadets Avani Chaturvedi of Madhya Pradesh, Mohana Singh of Rajasthan and Bhawana Kanth of Bihar, all in their early-20s, bring in a new era for the Indian defence forces, which have for long opposed the induction of women in combat roles.
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