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Captain Shiva Chauhan becomes the 1st women officer to be operationally deployed in Siachen

Captain Shiva Chauhan becomes the 1st women officer to be operationally deployed in Siachen

Captain Shiva Chauhan: Captain Shiva Chauhan from the Corps of Engineers has been posted at a frontline post in Siachen Glacier, in first such operational deployment of an woman Army officer at the world’s highest battlefield. The officer was posted at the Kumar post, located at an altitude of around 15,600 feet in Siachen, on Monday for a three-month stint after she underwent rigorous training. The training included endurance training, ice wall climbing, avalanche and crevasse rescue and survival drills.

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Who is Capt Shiva Chouhan?

Capt Shiva Chouhan, who hails from Rajasthan, is a Bengal Sapper Officer. Chouhan lost her father at the age of 11 and her mother, a housewife, took care of her studies. She did her schooling from Udaipur and graduated from NJR Institute of Technology, Udaipur, in civil engineering. Covering a distance of 508 kms, Capt Chouhan successfully led the Sura Soi Cycling Expedition from Siachen War Memorial to Kargil War Memorial conducted on the occasion of Kargil Vijay Diwas in July 2022. She then accepted the responsibility of commanding the Sura Soi Engineer Regiment’s soldiers at Siachen, and as a result of her success, she was chosen to attend the Siachen Battle School for training.

About the Siachen Glacier:

The Siachen glacier lies in the Karakoram Range .It is 75 km (47 miles) long, which makes it the second longest nonpolar glacier in the world, after Fedchenko Glacier in Tajikistan.

Strategic Significance of Siachen Glacier

Operation Meghdoot

Operation Meghdoot was launched by the Indian Armed Forces to take control of Siachen Glacier on the morning of April 13, 1984 before the Pakistani army did so. The Siachen Glacier, which is now in the Union Territory of Ladakh, was once located in the State of Jammu and Kashmir.

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