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Flight Cadet Minakshi Kumari with family
NEW DELHI: The communicative of Flight Cadet Minakshi Kumari, 1 of the 5 National Defence Academy (NDA) entrants of the archetypal women batch that passed retired arsenic IAF officers from the Dundigal-based Air Force Academy connected Saturday, began successful Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri.
Born successful a household with a defence background, she completed her schooling astatine Army Public School, Dhaula Kuan, ne'er knowing that destiny was astir to marque her a pioneer. The ex-NDA cadet’s father, Subedar Major Ravinder Kumar, is simply a JCO successful the Indian Army, and her member an Army Captain. In mid-2021, the Supreme Court's historical verdict shattered a solid ceiling with NDA opening its gates to women. Minakshi seized the infinitesimal and cleared the examination, conquered SSB, and aft 9 months of waiting, received the telephone letter.
On 6th Aug 2022, she stepped into NDA, making history.What followed were 3 years of translation astatine NDA. Amid the sweat and punishment runs, Minakshi discovered the concealed of NDA — the volition to find joyousness successful exhaustion, laughter during endurance runs, and sisterhood successful shared struggle. On May 30, 2025, dressed successful gleaming achromatic patrols, she crossed the hallowed 'Antim Pag' astatine Khetarpal Parade Ground, earning the prestigious rubric —ex-NDA.
At the Air Force Academy, her beingness was measured successful sorties and grueling pursuit of perfection. Amid the turbulence of training, her teacher was the lone fixed constituent of notation – a dependable compass guiding her towards the horizon.Flight Cadet Minakshi has not conscionable achieved the feat of becoming an aviator. She is simply a testament to the information that erstwhile doors are yet opened to them, women don't conscionable locomotion through, they fly. On Saturday, a arrogant begetter and her member successful the Army uniform, accompanied by her mother, were beaming with happiness watching Minaksi donning the aerial unit azygous turning into an IAF officer.
