24 November 2017 – Women are progressing and not just in fields feasible to them but anywhere that calls their expertise. India is proud to get its first Navy women pilots to be trained at Air Force Academy, Hyderabad. Subhangi Swaroop, Astha Segal, Roopa A, and Sakthi Maya S are the four women who are admitted to the Air Force Academy, which trains pilots of the Army, Navy and the Air Force.
Subhangi Swaroop is from Uttar Pradesh and the daughter of Naval commander Gyan Swaroop. Astha Segal, Roopa A, and Sakthi Maya S created history by becoming the country’s first women officers at the Naval Armament Inspectorate (NAI).
The Indian Air Force inducted three women pilots. Avani Chaturvedi, Bhawana Kanth, and Mohana Singh were commissioned as flying officers in July last year, less than a year after the government decided to open the fighter stream for women on an experimental basis.
