Anna Rajam Malhotra - Wikipedia Anna Rajam Malhotra Anna Rajam Malhotra ( née George ; 17 July 1927 -- 17 September 2018 ) was an Indian Administrative Service officer. She was the first woman in India to hold this position. Malhotra belonged to the 1951 batch of the IAS and married R.N. Malhotra, her batchmate. Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 3 Awards 4 References Early life and education Malhotra was born in 1927 in Niranam, Alleppey as the daughter of Ottavelil O.A. George and Anna Paul. She was the granddaughter of Malayalam author Pailo Paul. She grew up in Calicut and completed her intermediate from Providence Women 's College and bachelor 's degree from Malabar Christian College in Calicut. In 1949 she obtained her master 's in English literature from Madras University. She passed the civil services examination in 1950, and was the first woman to do so. Career Malhotra was discouraged from joining the service by the board which consisted of four ICS officers, headed by R.N. Banerjee the Chairman of UPSC. She was instead offered the Foreign Service and Central Services because they were ' more suitable for women '. But, she argued her case and stood her ground. Her first posting as a civil servant was in Madras State and reportedly chief minister C. Rajagopalachari was sceptical about giving a woman the charge of a district sub-collector and instead offered her a post in the Secretariat. She had undergone training in horse riding, rifle and revolver shooting and in using magisterial powers and hence did not comply and was eventually posted as the Sub Collector of Tirupattur in Madras State, becoming the first woman to do so. She worked under seven chief ministers and worked closely with Rajiv Gandhi in the Asiad Project and briefly with Indira Gandhi. Malhotra was responsible for building India 's first computerised port, Nhavasheva, in Mumbai. She was also the first Malayali woman to hold a secretarial post in the central government. Awards She was awarded Padma Bhushan in 1989. References Jump up ^ https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/mumbai/indias-first-woman-ias-officer-dead/article24971462.ece?homepage=true Jump up ^ `` India 's first woman IAS officer who knew how to handle men and guns ''. ^ Jump up to : Priyadershini S. ( 2012 - 03 - 11 ). `` Grit meets grace ''. Thehindu.com. Retrieved 2015 - 05 - 14. Jump up ^ `` अन्ना राजम थीं देश की पहली महिला IAS, 67 साल पहले हुआ था सिलेक्शन ''. www.bhaskar.com. Retrieved 2015 - 08 - 24. ^ Jump up to : `` The Untold and Inspiring Story of Anna Rajam Malhotra, India 's First Female IAS Officer ''. The Better India. 2017 - 01 - 17. Retrieved 2017 - 10 - 28. Jump up ^ `` Padma Awards '' ( PDF ). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. 2015. Archived from the original ( PDF ) on November 15, 2014. Retrieved July 21, 2015. Padma Bhushan award recipients ( 1980 -- 1989 ) 1980 Sunil Gavaskar 1981 Vainu Bappu Prafulla Desai A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Gopinath Mohanty Amritlal Nagar Mrinal Sen Avabai Bomanji Wadia 1982 Jasbir Singh Bajaj Sundaram Balachander Gottipati Brahmaiah Rani Gaidinliu Khadim Hussain Khan Stella Kramrisch Jal Minocher Mehta Grace Morley Syed Zahoor Qasim Kamal Ranadive P.N. Pattabhirama Sastri Jhabarmal Sharma Ajit Ram Verma Richard Attenborough Doraiswamy Iyengar V.G. Jog K. Sankaran Nair Prem Nazir Swraj Paul, Baron Paul Rajkumar K.G. Ramanathan Kershasp Tehmurasp Satarawala Subodh Chandra Sengupta Adi M. Sethna Arun Kumar Sharma Benudhar Sharma Bhalindra Singh Umrao Singh 1984 Horace Alexander Michael Ferreira Sivaji Ganesan Jnan Prakash Ghosh Kotha Satchidananda Murthy Hosur Narasimhaiah Sripada Pinakapani Ishwari Prasad B.C. Sanyal Marie Seton Archana Sharma Obaid Siddiqi Natwar Singh Ganda Singh Vijay Tendulkar Baldev Upadhyaya 1985 Durga Das Basu Shiba P. Chatterjee Eknath Vasant Chitnis Virender Lal Chopra Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon Santidev Ghosh Bhimsen Joshi Tribhuvandas Luhar Sadat Abul Masud Kalanidhi Narayanan Bernard Peters Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai Gopala Ramanujam S. Ramaseshan Vuppuluri Ganapathi Sastry Amarjit Singh Gurbachan Singh Talib Bhalchandra Udgaonkar Srinivasan Varadarajan 1986 Pushpa Mittra Bhargava Ela Bhatt Manohar Lal Chibber Aminuddin Dagar V. Krishnamurthy Jean Riboud Sidney Dillon Ripley Rajeev Sethi Martand Singh C. Venkataraman Sundaram Badri Nath Tandon Gulshan Lal Tandon R.K. Trivedi Balamani Amma Kishori Amonkar Nikhil Banerjee Roddam Narasimha R.D. Pradhan Annada Shankar Ray Julio Ribeiro Man Mohan Sharma Laxmi Prasad Sihare Farokh Udwadia Mohammad Yunus 19th Kushok Bakula Rinpoche Ram Prakash Bambah Kartar Singh Duggal Ashok Sekhar Ganguly Abid Hussain Shreyans Prasad Jain Kelucharan Mohapatra Bal Ram Nanda Akkineni Nageswara Rao Pratury Trirumala Rao Renuka Ray B.V. Sreekantan Satya Pal Wahi Fenner Brockway, Baron Brockway Banoo Jehangir Coyaji Girija Devi Kattingeri Krishna Hebbar Girilal Jain Anna Rajam Malhotra M.V. Mathur Ashesh Prosad Mitra Russi Mody Suresh Shankar Nadkarni Narinder Singh Randhawa Yoshio Sakurauchi Lakshman Singh Prakash Narain Tandon # Posthumous conferral 1954 -- 1959 1960 -- 1969 1970 -- 1979 1980 -- 1989 1990 -- 1999 2000 -- 2009 2010 -- 2019 This Indian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. 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