page_title: Meenakshi Vijayakumar
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Meenakshi Vijayakumar / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: National Fire Games-2018
context_page_description: Meenakshi Vijayakumar was born in 1965 in Chennai, India. At present she is working as Deputy Director in Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services, Chennai. She has received The President's Medal for Gallantry in 2013 for saving two lives. She has also received The President's Medal for Meritorious Service in 2019. She is the first Indian Fire Officer to have Won medals in the World Firefighter's Games and World Police and Fire Games held in South Korea, Australia, USA and also Indian Fire Service Games held in Nagpur.
context_section_description: Meenakshi Vijayakumar started her career as Assistant Professor in English at Chellamal College, Chennai in 1990. She worked as a lecturer in Communication Technique at Father Agnel Institute of Management, New Delhi. She cleared Group 1 service exam in 1998, but had to wait until 2003, before it was decided that women officers could be included in fire service.
  She worked as the Divisional Fire Officer of north Chennai for four and a half years and suburban Chennai for one and a half years.She has attended more than 400 fire and rescue calls. She took part in the rescue operations in the Tsunami disaster. She was also responsible for organizing fire safety programs in her division. She has trained more than 30 batches of fire officers from all over India.
  In 2013 she was awarded the President’s Fire Service Medal for Gallantry.She gives talks encouraging young Indian women to pursue careers.
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caption: Appreciated by DGP, TNFRS
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