Top 21 Most Powerful Indian Women need a salute on this International Women’s Day. They wrote history in 2020 and gave message of women power to the world. They prove that they can work as great mother, sister, wife, housewife and more . They can also work as a great teacher, doctor, scientist, business women, sports person, great leader or anything today. Now they are ready to follow their own parh and guiding the world a right path to follow.
The women empowerment in India is gradually growing and they are getting more freedom to express themselves. Now they are achieving high goals in almost all areas where men can register success. They are equally growing and leading the world. The Indian women success story is special for the world. Now we bring you the top 21 most powerful indian worn story for you to know what they have done to the work.
Meet the Most Powerful Indian Women in India
Divya Gokulnath: 21 Most Powerful Indian Women
Divya Gokulnath is a co-founder of Indian biggest learning APP BYJU’S. She is just 34 years old and ranked 46th richest person in the Forbes India Rich people list for 2020. She is the owner of approx 22.3 thousand crores with assets and company share. He has achieved this position in just six years of launching BYJU’S app in India.
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Divya was born in Bengaluru Karnataka and she received her primary educational from Frank Anthony Public School New Delhi. She pursued her under graduation from Nation Degree Collage at Jaynagar in Bengaluru. She did her B Tech in Biotechnology from RV Collage of Engineering from Bangalore. Divya and her husband build the Indian largest online education app and build a billion dollar company.
Arya Rajendran:
Became the mayor of Kerala state capital Thiruvananthapuram in December 2020. She is the youngest mayor in the country. After becoming Mayor, her first priority was to make her city safe for women. Arya Rajendran was born 12 January 1999 and her father is an electrician and Mother is a LIC agent. Arya is also a member of the Kerala State Committee which helps the local administration to run community kitchens, emergency medicine, awareness programs etc. In the civic elections she defeated the Congress candidate by 549 votes.
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Arya broke the record of Sabitha Beegum who became Kollam Mayor at 23 and Devendra Fadnavis, the opposition leader in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly by being the youngest mayor in India. Fadnavis became the mayor of Nagpur Municipal Corporation at the age of 27 Years.
Kishori Pednekar: 21 Most Powerful Indian Women
The Mumbai mayor Kishori Pednekar become nurse to treat corona patients in April 2020. Current Mumbai mayor and former nurse did not gave a second thought server the patients as nurse when coronavirus started rising in Mumbai City. She served in Nair Hospital in Mumbai to corona patients. The 57-year-old became an inspiration for young doctors and nurses during the beginning of corona virus.
Before entering in to politics Kishori Pednekar was a nurse at the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust for more than a decade. She joined Shiv Sena in 1992 to pursue he political carrier. The 77th Mumbai Kishori known for her hard work and she use to work from morning 8 AM till 2 PM everyday. She says her priority is to keep the city clean and safe for everyone.
Arundhati Katju:
Arundhati Katju played an important role in ending section 377 for homosexuality as a crime in India. She pleaded this case in court fo Navtej Singh Johar v. Union of India challenging the 158-year-old law. This was the landmark judgement and helped millions of homosexual in India who was victim of older law. Arundhati named in Time magazine as 100 most influential women in the world in 2019.
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Arundhati Katju was born August 19, 1982 and she is a lawyer qualified to practice in India and New York. She has litigated many notable cases at the Supreme Court of India and the Delhi High Court. Katju obtained a B.A. LL.B Hons. degree from the National Law School of India University, Bangalore in 2005. Arundhati is the niece of former Supreme Court judge Markandey Katju.
Ritu Karidhal: 21 Most Powerful Indian Women
Dr. Ritu Karidhal Srivastava is an Indian scientist working with the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). She was a Deputy Operations Director to India’s Mars orbital mission, Mangalyaan. She has been referred to as a “Rocket Woman” of India. She was born and brought up in Lucknow and is an aerospace engineer.
Karidhal is working for ISRO since 1997. She played a key role in the development of India’s Mars Orbiter Mission, Mangalyaan. She was also the Deputy Operations Director of this mission. Mangalyan was one of the greatest achievement of ISRO. It made India the fourth country in the world to reach Mars. It was done in 18 months time and at far lesser cost to the taxpayers- ₹450 crores only.
Radha Vembu:
Radha Vembu is one of the richest self-made women. She was ranked number 60 on Hurun’s 2020 list of wealthy self-made women. Radha own majority stake holding in multi million software company Zoho. The Zoho Corporation was co-founded by her brother Sridhar Vembu in 1996 as AdventNet.She heads most of the product and services for they company. She actively keeps herself away from the limelight.
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Radha Vembu is a daughter of stenographer Sambamurthy Vembu in the Madras High Court, is also known as an ‘invisible’ self-made bilinear, as she stays away from the media. Radha joined Joho Corporation with her elder brother Sridhar Vembu in 2007 after graduating from IIT Madras in 1997. Radha Vembu is overseeing more than 45 products and projects of Joho. Joho has more than 60 million users.
Bhavya Lal: 21 Most Powerful Indian Women
Bhavya Lal is the acting Chief of Staff at NASA in United States. She is responsible for the strategy of NASA and its working, the world’s largest space agency. These days she is working 10 to 14 hours a day. He is having a long meeting on the phone every day.
Bhavya born and brought in India and did her basic schooling from India. She went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US after 12th to graduate in nuclear engineering. After this she did a double masters in technology and policy stream from US. This was followed by a PhD in Public Policy and Public Administration from The George Washington University.
Mansi Joshi:
Mansi Para is the World Champion of Badminton and ranked number two in 2020. Time magazine has placed her name as the list of Next Generation Leader. Mansi started playing badminton from the age of six. In 2011, Mansi had to be amputated after a truck accident to save her life. She stayed in hospital for more than 50 days. She returned with the prosthetic leg in badminton court after four month of accident. Mansi became a professional badminton player in 2014.
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Manasi Girishchandra Joshi was born on 11 June 1989 and she is an Indian para-badminton player. Manasi was born in Rajkot, Gujarat and she was raised in Anushaktinagar, Mumbai. She graduated in Electronics Engineering from K. J. Somaiya College of Engineering, University of Mumbai, in 2010. Sports lover, Manasi played sports such as football and badminton through her school and college life.
Aparna Kumar: 21 Most Powerful Indian Women
Aparna Kumar was responsible to rescue people in Chamoli during Uttarakhand disaster. She is the first civil servant to climb the highest peaks of all the seven continents. Aparna was posted as Commandant in the Ninth Battalion PSE, Moradabad to lead the special police force. She played a key role during the Uttarakhand disaster to save life of people.
Aparna Kumar is a 2002 batch IPS officer of Uttar Pradesh cadre. She was attracted to mountaineering a few years earlier when she was posted at Moradabad, and commanding The 9th Battalion PAC (which guarded the Chinese border before ITBP came into being). She was awarded Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award in 2018 for land adventure by the President of India
Ngangom Bala Devi:
Ngangom Bala Devi became the first Indian woman to score a goal in the Professional League of Europe in December 2020. She scored 36 goals for India in 38 matches. She is the first Indian to be selected as the International Player of the Week by the Asian Football Confederation.
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Born in Manipur, Bala Devi grew up playing the game with mainly boys. She was a part of the Manipur U19 team that took part in the Under-19 Women’s Champion. She was very influential in her state, winning the women’s football championship in 2014, scoring a brace as Manipur defeated Odisha in the final 3–1.
Aishwarya Pissay: 21 Most Powerful Indian Women
Aishwarya completed the 8,000 km journey from Gujarat to Cherrapunji in 24 days by bike. The Federation of Motor Sports Club of India honoured 25-year-old Aishwarya with the ‘Outstanding Women in Motorsports. Aishwarya award’ in 2016, 2017 and 2019 for motorsports. She started riding bikes at the age of nine. Aishwarya became the first Indian woman to win the Motorsport World Cup in 2019 in just four years thereafter.
Aishwarya Pissay was born 14 August 1995 in Bangalore, Karnataka. She is an Indian circuit and off-road motorcycle racer. Aishwarya become the first-ever Indian athlete to win a world title in motorsport on motorcycles. The TVS talent participated at the FIM Bajas World Cup and secured the 1st place in the women’s category and 2nd in the junior’s category.
Anshu Jamsenpa: 21 Most Powerful Indian Women
Anshu Jamsenpa is an Indian mountaineer and the first woman in the world to scale the summit of Mount Everest twice in a season. She become the fastest double submitter to do so within 5 days. She is from Bomdila, headquarters of West Kameng district, Arunachal Pradesh. Anshu was awarded India’s fourth highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2021.
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She also received the Tenzing Nargue National Adventure Award in 2018. Won Everest five times between 2011 and 2017. In 2017. Her father is a police officer on the Indo Tibetan border and mother is a nurse. Anshu is 41 year old and she is a mother of two children. Anshu has also been the brand ambassador of ‘Swachh Bharat Abhiyan’.
Soma Mandal:
35 years Soma Mandal is the first chairman of SAIL in India. Under his leadership, SAIL launched successful products such as NEX (Structural) and SeQR (TMT Bar). On 1 January she took over as the chairman of the Steel Authority of India (SAIL). She is the first woman to reach this position.
A graduate in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Rourkela in 1984, Mondal started her career as a Graduate Engineer Trainee at NALCO and rose to become Director (Commercial) at NALCO. She then joined SAIL in 2017 as the Director (Commercial) and subsequently has become the Chairman of SAIL.
Abhijita Gupta: 21 Most Powerful Indian Women
The 7-year-old Abhijita Gupta has been recognized as the world’s youngest author by the International Book of Records. The Asia Book of Records has conferred on her title of the ‘Grandmaster in Writing. ‘ According to the India Book of Records, she is the youngest author to write poetry and prose.
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Abhijita is from Ghaziabad uttar pradesh and she is in 2nd standard. Wrote the book using the time when the schools were closed. She is now writing a book on the impact of the Corona epidemic on children.
Ayesha Aziz:
25-year-old Ayesha from Baramulla in Kashmir is the youngest commercial pilot in the country. At the age of 16, she took training to fly Jet MiG-29 aircraft in Russia. Licensed to become a commercial pilot in 2017. Now he is ready to fly Jet MiG-29 aircraft.
She later graduated in aviation from the Bombay Flying Club (BFC) and obtained a commercial license in 2017. While speaking to media, Aziz said that she believed that Kashmiri women had progressed immensely in the last few years and have done exceptionally well in the field of education.
Bhavna Kant: 21 Most Powerful Indian Women
Bhawana Kanth is one of the first female fighter pilots of India. She was declared as the first combat pilot along with two of her cohort, Mohana Singh, and Avani Chaturvedi. The trio was inducted into the Indian Air Force fighter squadron in June 2016.
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Kanth was born on 1 December 1992 in Darbhanga, Bihar. Her father Tej Narayan Kanth is an electrical engineer in Indian Oil Corporation and mother Radha Kanth is a home maker. While growing up, Kanth was fond of sports like Kho Kho, Badminton, swimming and painting. Kanth completed her schooling from DAV Public School in Barauni refinery. She joined Bachelor of Engineering in Medical Electronics from BMS College of Engineering Bengaluru.
Alina Alam:
Alina Alam is the founder and CEO of Mitti Cafe. She was selected for the 2020 Commonwealth Youth Awards. Her cafe train mentally and physically handicapped people and bring them in main stream. Companies like Wipro, Infosys, Accenture and large colleges having more than 14 Mitti Cafe in their campuses.
Since the pandemic her cafe employees with disabilities have cooked and served over 1.3 Million meals to daily wagers and the homeless. This has enabled them to serve the country while creating awareness about the abilities of their team of warriors with disabilities
Zubaida Bai: 21 Most Powerful Indian Women
Zubaida Bai is a founder of Ice Company which makes low cost birth kits. This kit is distributed free of cost to under privilege people in the country. The berth kit consists of six items – an apron, bed sheet, hand sanitiser, antiseptic soap, cord clip and a surgical blade. She has raised funds for its project by selling her jewellery and assets.
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Zubaida Bai was raised in Chennai, India. She was the first person in her family to pursue post-secondary education. Her female relatives typically married in adolescence. Ms. Bai holds a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering Specialising in Development of Modular Products, and an MBA in Social and Sustainable Enterprises.
Beno Zephine:
25-year-old Beno Zephine from Tamil Nadu is the first fully blind IFS officer in the country. Beno’s mother, Mary Padmaja use to read books for her to learn and remember the information in the books. Every challenge, with the help of mother’s words and father, passed every test.
Beno was born on 17 April 1990 in Chennai, India in the home of Luke Anthon Charles, an employee of Indian Railways. Her mother Mary Padmaja was a home maker. She did her schooling in Little Flower Convent Higher Secondary school for the blind in Chennai. Beno obtained under graduation in English literature from Stella Maris College, Chennai and her post graduation in Loyola College, Chennai.
Zia Mody: 21 Most Powerful Indian Women
Zia Mody is an Indian corporate lawyer and businesswoman. She is considered an authority on corporate merger and acquisition law, securities law, private equity and project finance. Zia is the daughter of former Attorney General of India Soli Sorabjee.
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Mody’s initial education was at Elphinstone College, Mumbai. She studied law at Selwyn College, Cambridge, followed by a master’s degree from Harvard Law School in 1979. She passed the New York State Bar examination, and qualified as an attorney in the State of New York. She worked for five years with Baker & McKenzie in New York City before returning to India.
Ameera Shah: 21 Most Powerful Indian Women
His company Metropolis Healthcare became the first private firm in India to test Covid-19. The chain has 125 labs in large cities across the country. It has 4 thousand working with her company. Amira Shah is on Forbes’ list of Asia’s 25 Power Businesswomen in 2020.
She studied commerce at junior college in H.R. College of Commerce and Economics. She obtained a degree in finance from the University of Texas at Austin. She used to work with Goldman Sachs in New York. Later, she completed the Owner-President Management Program at Harvard Business School. Shah is an industry spokesperson and has been featured as a speaker in various National and International forums, industry events and conclaves.
