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BJP leader and former IPS officer Kiran Bedi was on May 22, 2016 appointed Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said. "The President of India is pleased to appoint Kiran Bedi to be the Lt. Governor of Puducherry with effect from the date she assumes charge," it said.
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The Congress-DMK alliance returned to power in the union territory after the May 16 elections to the 30-member assembly.
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The first woman to join the elite Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972, Bedi held key positions in her career, including Inspector General (Prisons) at Delhi's high-security Tihar jail.
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Known for her administrative experience and integrity, her work in one of Asia's largest jails won her the Ramon Magsaysay Award for Public Service in 1994. She was credited for introducing yoga, meditation, literacy drive, computer skills, feedback boxes for the inmates during her stint at Tihar and is often said to have successfully transformed the prison into a "reformatory".
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Bedi has also courted controversies during her service. While working as deputy commissioner of police (traffic) in 1982 during the ninth Asian Games, she was nicknamed 'Crane Bedi' for extensive use of cranes to tow away wrongly parked cars.
In This Pic : Kiran Bedi
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