Mohana Singh Jitarwal

Mohana Singh Jitarwal is one of the first female fighter pilots of India.[1][2][3] She was declared as the first female combat pilot along with two of her cohort, Bhawana Kanth, and Avani Chaturvedi. All three women pilots were inducted into the Indian Air Force fighter squadron in June 2016. They were formally commissioned by Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar.[4] After the government of India decided to open the fighter stream in India Air Force for women on an experimental basis, these three women were the first to be selected for the program.[5]

Mohana Singh (Jitarwal)
Personal details
Born (1992-01-22) 22 January 1992
Jhunjhunu, Rajasthan, India
OccupationFighter Pilot
Military service
Allegiance India
Branch/service Indian Air Force
Rank Flight Lieutenant

Biography
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the Nari Shakti Awardees on International Women's Day in 2020.

Mohana Singh completed her schooling from The Air Force School, New Delhi and BTech in Electronics & Communication from Global Institute of Management and Emerging Technologies, Amritsar, Punjab. Her father Pratap Singh is a serving Indian Air Force personnel and mother Manju Singh is a teacher.[6] While growing up, Singh was fond of sports like roller skating, badminton and other activities like singing and painting.[7]

On 9 March 2020, she was awarded with Nari Shakti Puraskar by President Ram Nath Kovind.[8][9]

Career

In June 2019, she became the first women fighter pilot of Indian Air Force to become a fully operational by day on a Hawk Mk.132 advance jet trainer. She had completed more than 380 hours of incident free flying on Hawk Mk.132 with training in both Air-to-Air and Air-to-Ground fighting mode in 2019.[10]

References
  1. "Meet The Trio Who Will Be India's First Women Fighter Pilots". NDTV.com. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  2. "Latest Current Affairs and News About Bhawana Kanth - Current Affairs Today". currentaffairs.gktoday.in. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  3. Mohammed, Syed (19 June 2016). "For IAF's first women fighter pilots Mohana Singh, Bhawana Kanth & Avani Chaturvedi, sky is no limit". The Economic Times. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  4. Krishnamoorthy, Suresh (18 June 2016). "First batch of three female fighter pilots commissioned". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  5. "Air Force's First 3 Women Fighter Pilots May Fly Mig-21 Bisons From November". NDTV.com. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  6. "India's First Women Fighter Pilots Get Wings". NDTV.com. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  7. "Supported by parents, Bhawana Kanth to script IAF history, become a fighter pilot". News18. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
  8. "Flying MiG-21 Bison matter of pride: Flt Lt Bhawana Kanth". Livemint. 9 March 2020. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  9. "Keep striving for your dreams with hard work, determination: IAF's women fighter pilots". ANI News. Retrieved 21 March 2021.
  10. "Mohana Singh becomes first woman fighter pilot to fly Hawk advanced jet". New Indian Express. Retrieved 1 June 2019.

Further reading
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.