SINDHUTAI SAPKAL(MOTHER OF ORPHANS)

                  Sindhutai Sapkal,known as the "Mother of Orphans",is an Indian social worker and social activist.Sindhutai Sapkal was born on 14 November 1948 at Pimpri Meghe village in Wardha district Maharashtra to Abhimanji Sathe, a cowherd by profession. Being an unwanted child, she was referred to as Chindhi her father was keen on educating Sindhutai, much against the wishes of her mother.Abject poverty, family responsibilities and an early marriage forced her to quit formal education after she successfully passed the 4th standard.

          At the age of ten, she was married to Shrihari Sapkal alias Harbaji, a 30-year-old cowherd from Navargaon village in Wardha District. She bore three sons by the time she turned twenty. She put up a successful agitation against a local strongman who was fleecing the villagers on collection of dried cow dung used as fuel in India and selling it in collusion with forest department, without paying anything to the villagers..Her agitation brought the district collector to her village and on realising she was right, he passed an order which the strongman did not like.She gave birth to a baby girl on 14 October 1973 in a cow shelter outside their house that night, all by herself and walked several kilometres away to her mother's place. Her mother refused to shelter her. She had to set aside the thought of suicide and started begging on railway platforms for food. In the process, she realised that there were so many children abandoned by their parents and she adopted them as her own and started begging even more vigorously to feed them. She decided to become a mother to anyone and everyone who came across to her as an orphan. She later donated her biological child to the trust Shrimant Dagdu Sheth Halwai, Pune, only to eliminate the feeling of partiality between her daughter and the adopted ones.

                 She has devoted her entire life to orphans. As a result, she is fondly called 'Mai'(mother). She has nurtured over 1,050 orphaned children. As of today, she has a grand family of 207 sons-in-law, thirty-six daughters-in-law, and over a thousand grandchildren.At the age of 80, her husband came back to her apologetically. She accepted him as her child stating she is only a mother now! If you visit her ashram, she proudly and very affectionately introduces him as her oldest child! In person, she comes across as an unlimited source of energy and very powerful inspiration, with absolutely no negative emotions or blaming anybody.

TESSY THOMAS(MISSILE WOMAN OF INDIA)

    Tessy Thomas is an engineer and the project director for Agni-IV missile in DRDO.Tessy was born in April 1963 in Alappuzha,Kerela,to a small businessman father and house wife mother.She graduated in engineering from govt.engineering college ,Thrissur. She is the first woman engineer to head missile project of India.She is known as the "Missile Woman" of India.Tessy was associate project director of 3000 km range "Agni-III Missile"project.
                           Tessy was Project director of "Agni-IV" missile project successfully tested in 2011.She was project director for 5000 km range "Agni-V" missile project which was tested in 2012.Mrs Thomas is an example of " woman making her mark in traditional male bastion and decisively breaking the glass ceiling.The media loves her call " Agniputri".
             She is married to Saroj Kumar ,now a commander in Indian navy and they have a son.The Indian Woman association did not forget  to mention that "Like most women she also does a tight rope walk between home and career.We feel Tessy serves as a role model and an Inspiration for women scientists to achieve their dreams and have their feet  planted in both both world successful.
          Tessy won many award for her achievement in the field of missile projects.True inspiration for a women.

KIRAN BEDI(SOCIALIST & EX-IPS OFFICER)

                 Kiran  Bedi is truly an icon of heroism. She was the first Indian woman to join the Indian Police Services. She was born on June 9, 1949 at Amritsar in Punjab. She is one of the most renowned police officers, who have put in their whole hearted effort in serving the society.Her career started in the year 1970, when she took the job of a lecturer at Khalsa College for Women in Amritsar. Two years later, she joined the Indian Police Services. All the way through her career, she has taken up a number of challenging assignments. She has served as the Traffic Commissioner of New Delhi, Deputy Inspector General of Police in the insurgency prone area of Mizoram.

                            An interesting thing about Kiran Bedi is that, sometimes, she is referred to as Crane Bedi. The reason behind calling her by this name is that, she dragged the car of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi due to violation of parking rules.