Kiran Bedi

By Kiran Bedi Group

About Kiran Bedi
* Dr.Kiran Bedi was born on June 9, 1949, Amristsar India. She has been India's first
and highest woman ranking officer having joined the Indian Police Service in 1972.

* She holds a Masters Degree in Political Science and a Doctorate Degree in social
Science from IIT Delhi she has also been a National and an Asian Tennis Champion.

*She worked with the United Nations in New York as the Police Advisor to the
Secretary General and in the Department of Peace keeping Operations.
Dr. Kiran Bedi has been India's first and
highest woman ranking officer having joined
the Indian Police Service in 1972. Her
expertise includes more than four decades of
Public Administration, Creative and
Reformative Policing and Prison Management.
She was the former Lieutenant Governor of
Puducherry, a Union Territory of India.
She holds a Masters Degree in Political Science
and a Doctorate Degree in Social Sciences from
IIT Delhi. She is also a Nehru Fellow (post
doctoral) and has been a National and an Asian
Tennis champion.
She worked with the United Nations in New York
as the Police Advisor to the Secretary-General and
in the Department of Peace Keeping Operations.
She represented India in international forums on
crime prevention, drug abuse, police, prison
reform, and women's issues. She has addressed
audiences at the American, British, European,
Indian universities, corporate and civil society
groups.

Dr. Bedi is the founder of two NGOs, Navjyoti and

India Vision Foundation, which reach out to
thousands of underserved children, women, and
men in the areas of education, vocational skills,
environment, counseling, and health care to the
urban and rural poor, including prisoners and
policemen's children. Currently, her NGOs are
running community colleges, registered with Indira
Gandhi National Open University, to provide
vocational and soft skills to Indian youth.
Dr. Bedi is the author of several
books, namely It's Always Possible,
What Went Wrong, As I See and
Broom and Groom, in addition to her
biography, I Dare. She anchors radio
and television shows as well as she
is a columnist with leading
newspapers and magazines.
Films based on Kiran Bedi’s life :-

* Karthavyam.

* Kannadadda : Kiran Bedi.

* Carve your destiny.

Documentaries and TV programmes based on
Kiran Bedi’s life :-

~ Doing time, Doing Vipassana.

~ Kiran Bedi : yes madam, sir.

~ Koi to ho Ardhnarishwar.
Biographies of Dr.Bedi
include :-

• Panjabi di daler dhi : Kiran Bedi

• Kiran bedi, the kindly baton.

• I dare! : Kiran bedi, a biography.

• Kiran bedi : the woman of substance.

• Kiran bedi – making of top cop.

Thank You
- Kiran Bedi Group
Shannon
Malachy
Vaishnavi