Another woman from Bengal has achieved a rare feat to become the first in her trade in the country. Shyamli Haldar has become the first woman to head the air traffic control (ATC) not only in Kolkata but entire India.
Among the first batch of women air traffic controllers joining the servicer 31 years ago Haldar was promoted as the General Manager of Kolkata ATC.
She is the second Bengali woman to achieve a similar feat in aviation industry. Durba Banerjee was incidentally the first Indian woman to fly.
Joining the service in 1989 Haldar was trained at Civil Aviation Training College in Allahabad. As the ATC top officer managing more than 300 controllers she would mind the skies as far as Hyderabad, sources said.
