who is the first woman ias officer in india
Anna Rajam Malhotra Anna Rajam George (nÃ©e Malhotra) (born July 17, 1927) was the first female Indian Administrative Service officer of Independent India while Esha Basant Joshi was the first woman IAS. Malhotra belonged to the 1951 batch of the IAS and married R. N. Malhotra, her batchmate.[1][2]