Capt. Chouhan who hails from Rajasthan is a Bengal Sapper Officer and was commissioned into the Engineer Regiment in May 2021
Srinagar: Captain Shiva Chouhan, of the Indian Army has become the first woman officer to serve in the Siachin Glacier area, since her posting there as part of the Army’s Ladakh-based Fire and Fury Corps, a report in the Deccan Chronicle, says.
The Siachin glacier area is considered to be the world’s highest battlefield.
Capt. Chouhan who hails from Rajasthan is a Bengal Sapper Officer and was commissioned into the Engineer Regiment in May 2021.
“I am extremely happy to see more women joining the Armed Forces and take every challenge in its stride. It is an encouraging sign. My best wishes to Capt Shiva Chauhan,” tweeted Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
Posted to the Siachin Glacier on January 2nd after an arduous climb, Capt.Chouhan will be leader of a team of the Bengal Sappers.
She will be responsible for numerous combat engineering tasks and will be deployed at the post for a duration of three months.
“I am extremely happy to see more women joining the Armed Forces and take every challenge in their stride. It is an encouraging sign. My best wishes to Capt Shiva Chauhan,” tweeted Defence Minister Rajnath Singh.
Kumar Post or Kumar Base, at 15,632 feet, serves as a battalion headquarters of the Northern Command, and is named after the famed Indian Army officer and mountaineer Colonel Narendra “Bull” Kumar and is located 60 km from the Siachen base towards Indira Col.
She has done her schooling in Udaipur and holds a bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering from NJR Institute of Technology, Udaipur. She lost her father when she was 11 and her mother, who is a housewife, took care of her studies.
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