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Born | citation needed] Lahore, Punjab, British India | May 31, 1946 [
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Surgeon Vice Admiral ( Lieutenant General) Punita Arora PVSM, SM, VSM is a former Flag Officer of the Indian Navy and the Indian Army. Arora was the first woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a Three-star rank. She held the ranks of Lieutenant General in the Indian Army [1] and Surgeon Vice Admiral in the Indian Navy. [2]
She was born into a Punjabi family which hails from Lahore. When she was only one-year-old, her family moved [3] to India during partition and got settled in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. [4]
She studied in Sophia School in Saharanpur till 8th grade. After that she moved to Guru Nanak Girls Inter-College. In 11th standard while getting admitted to Government school for boys she decided to take Science as a career. She joined Armed Forces Medical College, Pune in 1963 [5] which was the second batch of the AFMC and she turned out to be the topper of that batch. [4]
Punita Arora was commissioned in January 1968. [6] Before becoming Surgeon Vice Admiral of Indian Navy she was Commandant of AFMC. She took the charge of commandant of Armed Forces Medical College on 1 September 2004 thereafter becoming the first woman officer to command the medical college. [7] Before that she was co-ordinating Medical Research of the armed forces at the Army headquarters as additional director-general of Armed Forces Medical Services (Medical Research). [6] She moved from the Army to the Navy as the AFMS has a common pool which allows officers to migrate from one service to another depending on the requirement. [8]
She has been awarded with 15 medals in her 36 years of career in Indian Armed Forces.
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Punita Arora | |
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Born | citation needed] Lahore, Punjab, British India | May 31, 1946 [
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Rank |
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Commands held | Armed Forces Medical College |
Awards |
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Surgeon Vice Admiral ( Lieutenant General) Punita Arora PVSM, SM, VSM is a former Flag Officer of the Indian Navy and the Indian Army. Arora was the first woman in the Indian Armed Forces to be promoted to a Three-star rank. She held the ranks of Lieutenant General in the Indian Army [1] and Surgeon Vice Admiral in the Indian Navy. [2]
She was born into a Punjabi family which hails from Lahore. When she was only one-year-old, her family moved [3] to India during partition and got settled in Saharanpur, Uttar Pradesh. [4]
She studied in Sophia School in Saharanpur till 8th grade. After that she moved to Guru Nanak Girls Inter-College. In 11th standard while getting admitted to Government school for boys she decided to take Science as a career. She joined Armed Forces Medical College, Pune in 1963 [5] which was the second batch of the AFMC and she turned out to be the topper of that batch. [4]
Punita Arora was commissioned in January 1968. [6] Before becoming Surgeon Vice Admiral of Indian Navy she was Commandant of AFMC. She took the charge of commandant of Armed Forces Medical College on 1 September 2004 thereafter becoming the first woman officer to command the medical college. [7] Before that she was co-ordinating Medical Research of the armed forces at the Army headquarters as additional director-general of Armed Forces Medical Services (Medical Research). [6] She moved from the Army to the Navy as the AFMS has a common pool which allows officers to migrate from one service to another depending on the requirement. [8]
She has been awarded with 15 medals in her 36 years of career in Indian Armed Forces.
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