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An Indian service serviceman from Bengaluru, Major Swathi Shantha Kumar, has won the UN Secretary General’s Award 2025 for her task Equal Partners, Lasting Peace.
Major Swathi is presently serving connected an United Nations Mission successful South Sudan (UNMISS) and her efforts are said to person importantly enhanced sex parity done the effectual deployment and integration of the Indian Engagement team, thereby strengthening grassroot level engagement crossed the country of responsibility.
Under her inaugural and command, the squad successfully conducted short- and long-distance patrols, integrated reverie patrols, and dynamic aerial patrols to far-flung counties of the big nation. These operations contributed substantially to creating a conducive and unafraid situation for much than 5,000 women, enabling meaningful information and assemblage confidence-building.
Major Swathi is an serviceman successful the Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineers (EME). Her father, R. Shantha Kumar, said that she did her schooling successful Bengaluru and graduated from the New Horizon College of Engineering pursuing which she was commissioned successful the Indian Army.
“We are precise arrogant that our girl is serving the federation successful uniform, but similar immoderate different genitor I americium disquieted astir her arsenic she has to service successful precise harsh terrains and conditions. This grant is simply a designation for her hard enactment and subject which makes maine a precise blessed and arrogant father,” Mr. Kumar said.
He added that Major Swathi has been successful South Sudan for astir 15 months and is expected to instrumentality to India aboriginal adjacent period pursuing which she volition beryllium posted successful Secunderabad.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres precocious announced and honored the winners of the Secretary General’s Award 2025.
In his code Mr. Guterres said that the Mission has further strengthened the gender-inclusive attack by the UNMISS.
This prestigious grant recognises initiatives that beforehand sex parity and beforehand gender-responsive peacekeeping successful alignment with the UN mandate.
The squad was shortlisted from nominations received crossed each UN peacekeeping missions and UN agencies worldwide and emerged arsenic the victor successful the Gender Category, securing the highest fig of votes among 4 finalists done a UN-wide voting process involving the UN unit globally.
