“Everyone thought IG of prisons was a punishment posting...
KIRAN BEDI, 71
The reforms she instituted when she became the inspector general of prisons in Delhi in 1993 won her the Magsaysay Award the following year. It has been a long journey since and even though her policing career is behind her, she brings the same reformist zeal to her position as the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry
From being the first woman to serve as an officer in the Indian Police Service (IPS) to becoming the lieutenant governor of Puducherry, Kiran Bedi is an institution. In the course of her
