HLA HLA YEE

'' Dont Wait For The Perfect Moment
Take The Moment And Make It Perfect.''

HLA HLA YEE is a  high cheekbonned ,pretty and energetic young woman born in the family of provincial landowners and was expected to follow her four brothers and four sisters into the business world or a profession. But a high school visit to a local court room changed her.

         '' I was shocked by the way the officials and even the lawyers pushed the poorer people

around They were shouting at them and bullying them demanding bribes. I saw people looking so frightened and confused looking. It was so obvious that they do not have a clue what was going on.''

Hla Hla Yee decided on the spot to become a lawyer. “Actually, I decided that day to be a judge,” she laughs. “I thought, if I was a judge, I could stop this happening!” What she lacked in years, though, it seems she made up in courage. When a cousin of the family was beaten so badly by her husband that she went deaf in one ear, Hla Hla Yee took it upon herself to go to see him. “I told her he couldn’t hit her any more. I told him if he carried on, I’d bring him to the court,” she remembers. Her face breaks into an infectious grin. “He never beat her again after that!” One day a senior female lawyer told her about a woman’s empowerment programme being run by ActionAid in partnership with the British Council. The programme involved the women leadership course which taught Hla Hla Yee about the international treaties that protect women’s rights. The course also taught presentation and training skills, such as how to use strong body language, how to work with a group, and how to speak in public. She was so inspired that she resigned from her job on the spot and decided to start a free legal advice clinic for women. Her colleagues at the law firm were taken aback. Even her parents, always proud to have a lawyer in the family, asked her why she would give up a position in a private firm in favour of something that wouldn’t pay. It was nerve-wracking at first, she says, turning up on her own to train groups of people about gender violence and sexual harassment law. And simply telling women about their rights in law doesn’t solve the problems they face from apathetic or downright hostile police and corrupt courts. “Often, the police just say it’s a domestic matter and won’t take it seriously. If a woman takes a man to court, male judges often dismiss the case,” she says Hla Hla Yee’s legal clinic is now actively advocating an anti-violence-against-women law in Myanmar and has become a member of the Gender Equality Network, which ActionAid co-chairs.

NAVLEEN KAUR

Class X

Bal Bharati Public School

Ludhiana

INDRA NOOYI

Indra Krishnamurthy Nooyi was born on 28 October 1995. She is an Indian born naturalized American. She is the business executive and the current chairperson of second largest food supply company. She is the chief executive officer of PepsiCo .She has consistently ranked among the world’s 100 most powerful women. Nooyi graduated in 1980 and joined the Boston consulting group (BCG) and held strategy positions at Motorola .After having some experiencing years in Motorola .She joined PepsiCo in 1994.She was named the president and CEO in 2001.She was regarded as the third most powerful women in business by fortune in 2014.Nooyi has been named to Institutional Investor’s best CEO’s list in the all America executive team in 2011.She was awarded as the best employee of PepsiCo in 2013.

In 2014,she was ranked 13 in the list of Forbes World’s 100 most powerful women.Nooyi got married in 1996.She is having two daughters. Her older daughter is studying engineering management. They are staying in Greenwich, Connecticut .Nooyi is leading a successful  job and happy personal life.Nooyi is a social worker as well. She is the member of many NGO’s and associations which work for the welfare of society.

Sawraj Bagga

Class X

Dr. Fahmida Mirza

Fahmida Mirza , was the 18th Speaker of the National Assembly, a lower house of Parliament of State of Pakistan.  She was born on December 20, 1956 at Sialkot. Born and brought up in a political background, Fahmida was trained as Doctor at Liaquat Medical College, Jamshoro, Sindh, in 1982. 

A long time politician, Fahmida Mirza first ran for public office in 1997. She has served Three Terms in Parliament, winning the National Assembly seat in 1997, 2002 and 2008. In March 2008, She became the First Female National Assembly Speaker in Pakistan’s 60 year history with the support of Pakistan Peoples Party. From 1997 to next three years, she had to fight Court room battles against a Plethora of cooked-up charges, managing and saving family business in the teeth of official scrutiny, raising children as a single parent and at the same time becoming a strong voice in support of people’s rights and freedom from the floor of the House.

A woman of strong nerves and commitment, she withstood the rigors of time and emerged as a mature politician. The election of a woman to the High Pedestal office of the Speaker for the first time in the history of Pakistan has not only enabled the Parliament to stand out among the State Institutions but has also brought much grace to the chair itself. Her milestone decision to appoint the leader of the Opposition on the very first working day of her office and the very first day of ruling by her in the chair, upholding the’ Freedom of the Press ‘ are some of the fine examples, set by her. She did a lot for abused and vulnerable women, children, displaced persons, victims of Terrorism, and the physically or mentally handicapped persons. As Patron-in-Chief of the Pakistan Autistic Society, she is struggling for the well- being of persons with Cerebral disorders, especially children.

Mehak Wadhwa

Class X

Kiran Bedi

Kiran Bedi is an Indian politician, social activist, former tennis player and a retired police officer. Kiran Bedi was born in Amritsar, Punjab on June 9, 1944 to Prakash Lal Peshawaria and Prem Lata. Inspired by her father, Bedi started playing tennis at the age of 9. She continued playing tennis at the age of 30, when she started focusing on her IPS career. In 1972, she married fellow tennis player Brij Bedi

Bedi started her career as a lecturer of political science at the Khalsa College for Women in 1970. After 2 years of her teaching career, she cleared the civil services examinations and became an IPS officer. This made her the first Indian woman to do so. She won many accolades for her examplary service.

Being a woman, initially she was not taken seriously but soon her efforts began to bear fruit. In 1979, Bedi was posted to Delhi's West District, where there were not enough officers to handle the high volume of criminal activity. To compensate, she started recruiting civilian volunteers. Each village in the district was night patrolled by six civilians led by an armed policeman. She enabled anonymous reporting of any knowledge about crimes. She clamped down on bootlegging and the illicit liquor business to reduce crimes in the area. Due to her vigilant and innovative measures, within 3 months, there was a drop in cases related to "eve-teasing" and wife beating. This gained her the goodwill of local women, who also volunteered their services to help fight crime in the area.

In October 1981, Bedi was made DCP (Traffic). Bedi encouraged coordination between the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Delhi Electric Supply Undertaking and Delhi Development Authority. She clamped down on errant motorists with a heavy hand. She replaced challans (traffic tickets) with spot fines. Her team towed improperly parked vehicles using six tow trucks ("cranes") for traffic control. This earned her the nickname "Crane Bedi". On 5 August 1982, an Ambassador car (DHI 1817) belonging to Prime Minister Office was towed away by sub-inspector Nirmal Singh, as it was wrongly parked outside the Yusufzai Market at Connaught Place. Singh was fully supported by Bedi and her superior Ashok Tandon.

Kiran Bedi introduced a number of reforms in the management of Tihar Jail, Delhi when she was the Inspector General of Prisons during 1993-95. The various changes introduced by her under this mission witnessed positive changes in the lives of the citizens. This short stint of her remembered as a golden period in the history of the prison and won her many awards. On Dec. 25, 2007, she retired to dedicate herself to social work.

In August 2011, Kiran Bedi joined the India Against Corruption movement, led by Anna Hazare. She was a prominent face in the movement along with Arvind Kejriwal but parted ways with him when the latter formed ‘Aam Aadmi Party’.

Angad Ji Saggu

Class X

Ms. Chanda Kochhar ( Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ICICI Bank Limited )

Ms. Chanda Kochhar is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ICICI Bank Limited, India’s second-largest bank and the largest in the private sector. She is widely recognised for her role

in shaping the retail banking sector in India and for her leadership of the ICICI Group, as well as her contributions to various forums in India and globally.

Chanda was born in Jodhpur, Rajasthan and raised in Jaipur, Rajasthan. She is an alumnus of St. Angela Sophia School, Jaipur. She received the Wockhardt Gold Medal for Excellence in Management Studies as well as the J. N. Bose Gold Medal in Cost Accountancy for highest marks in the same year.

Ms. Kochhar began her career, with ICICI Limited in 1984 and was elevated to the Board of Directors of ICICI Bank in 2001. She was instrumental in establishing ICICI Bank during the 1990s, and subsequently headed the infrastructure finance and corporate banking business in ICICI Limited. In 2000, she took on the challenge of building the nascent retail business, with strong focus on technology, innovation, process reengineering and expansion of distribution and scale. The Bank achieved a leadership position in this business. During 2006-2007, she successfully led the Bank’s corporate and international banking businesses during a period of heightened activity and global expansion by Indian companies. Ms. Kochhar was conferred with the Padma Bhushan, one of India's highest civilian honours, in 2011.

Kochhar was also awarded the "ABLF Woman of Power Award (India)" in 2011 at the Asian Business Leadership Forum Awards Kochhar was ranked as the most powerful business woman in India in Forbes' list of 'The World's 100 Most Powerful Women 2013'. In October 2014, she was conferred with an honorary Doctor of Laws from Carleton University, Canada in recognition of her pioneering work in the financial sector,

JASHANPREET SINGH

CLASS- X