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Who was the first woman IAS officer in India?

  1. Kiran Bedi

  2. Vijayalakshmi Pandit

  3. Anna Rajam George

  4. Arati Saha
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Explanation

Anna Rajam George (later Anna Malhotra) became India's first woman IAS officer when she cleared the UPSC examination in 1951 and was assigned to the Madras cadre. Kiran Bedi was India's first woman IPS officer (1972), not IAS.

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