Kanchan chaudhary bhattacharya biography
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Tribute: Kanchan Chaudhary, the Trailblazing IPS Officer Who was India’s 1st Woman DGP
Kanchan Chaudhary Bhattacharya, India’s first woman Director General of Police, the second Indian Police Service officer after Kiran Bedi and a true trailblazer, passed away last night in Mumbai after a prolonged illness.
She was 72. A 1973-batch IPS officer, she was appointed DGP of Uttarakhand in 2004, before retiring from service on 31 October 2007.
She lived a life of service. Born in Himachal Pradesh, she grew up under very difficult circumstances.
Kanchan choudhary upsc rank 408Kanchan’s parents were thrown out of their grandfather’s house over a domestic dispute when she was just seven years old. Her parents, however, dusted themselves and worked hard to cultivate a fallow piece of farmland, which was their ancestral property.
But, it wasn’t easy and her parents struggled to make ends meet.
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