Women Empowerment under Modi: India has the largest number of women pilots in comparison to the world

The central government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has paid attention to the all round development of women at every level. The Modi government is handing over the command in the hands of women in one area after another. Giving due opportunity to women and reposing their trust in them by Prime Minister Modi has not only instilled confidence in women, but they are also becoming self-reliant. According to Dainik Bhaskar, Indian has the highest number of female pilots in the world

And the special thing is that the number of women pilots in India,
According to the report of the International Society of Women Airline Pilots (ISA+21), this number is two and a half times higher than the global average. According to the report, 5 percent of the total pilots in the world are women, while the proportion of women pilots in India is 12.4 percent, which is the highest in the world. According to the Ministry of Aviation, there are a total of 17,726 registered pilots in India, of which 2,764 are female pilots. In this way, out of the total pilots in the country, 15 percent are women pilots. Rinjal Airlines has the largest number of women in the country.

A team of women pilots of Air India recently created a record by flying the North Pole, the longest air route in the world. After taking off from San Francisco city of America, this team reached Bangalore via North Pole. During this four women pilots covered a distance of about 16,000 km. Captain Zoya Agarwal led this historic flight. He was accompanied by Captain Papagari Tanmai, Captain Shivani and Captain Akanksha Sonaware as co-pilot.

Flight Lieutenant Shivangi Singh, who hails from Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, has become the first woman pilot of Rafale, one of the world’s best warplanes. In the year 2015, Shivangi was selected as a flying officer in the Air Force. Shivangi Singh is part of the second batch of women pilots that were commissioned in 2017. Shivangi Singh was also one of the five female pilots to fly fighter aircraft in the Air Force in 2017.

For the first time in the country, two Navy women officers have been selected to serve on a warship. The Indian Navy has deployed Sub-Lieutenant Riti Singh and Sub-Lieutenant Kumudini Tyagi on board the Naval Warship. Both the women officers are flying in the Navy’s new MH-60R helicopters after completion of training. The MH-60R helicopter is the world’s most state-of-the-art multi-role helicopter in its class. It is designed to detect and engage enemy ships and submarines.