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NEW DELHI: Deputy Inspector General of Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) Aparna Kumar has become the first woman Indian Police Service (IPS) officer to reach the South Pole.
Aparna Kumar, a 2002-batch IPS officer, reached the South Pole on January 13 in a group of five that included Rod, a British Airways pilot from the United Kingdom, Guy Manning from the Cayman Islands, Pavel from the Czech Republic and Katsuya from Japan. “Aparna Kumar is the first woman IPS who achieved the success,” ITBP spokesperson Vivek Pandey told IANS.
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh appreciated Kumar over her success after she met him at his office earlier in the day.
Felicitating the officer, Singh said: “It is indeed a big achievement for the ITBP as well as for the country that the first woman IPS officer and a DIG of ITBP reached the South Pole.”
Sharing her experience of the excursion to the South Pole, Kumar said: “I started the South Pole expedition on December 30, 2018, from New Delhi to Santiago (Chile) and flew to Punta Arenas (Chile). On January 1, I met other team members. On January 3, the team left for Union Glacier Antarctica by the Russian cargo flight ‘Ilyshin’. It was a five-and-a-half hour journey to Union Glacier from Punta Arenas. (IANS)
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