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A person's stature doesn't matter much in the Army, it takes "jigra" or courage, said the lanky Captain Tania Shergill, the woman officer who will lead a contingent at the Republic Day parade,. Captain Tania Shergill is the first woman Parade adjutant to lead an all men army contingent on army day. She is a fourth generation Army Officer who always wanted to join the Fauj.
Tania Shergill is a captain in the Indian Army. Captain Tania Shergill is the first woman parade Adjutant in India to lead an all-male contingent in the 26 January Army Day celebrations in the Indian Army.

Tania’s father was also in the army. Tania had a dream of becoming an army officer since she was a child, she started studying as an army officer from a very young age.

Tania Shergill was born in 1993 (age 27 years; as in 2020) in Hoshiarpur, Punjab, India. She pursued B.Tech. in Electronics and Communication from the Priyadarshini College of Engineering. Also, She is a graduate from Officers Training Academy (OTA) in Chennai. His father’s name is Surat Singh Gill, was a Retired Army Officer and his mother’s name is Lakhwinder Kaur Gill.

She is the fourth generation of her family to join the Indian Army. During her early years, she grew up hearing tales about the “Indian Army” from her father and grandfather.

Joining the Indian Army was a very natural choice for her; as she was prepared for it from a very young age.

Her father was in the “101 Medium Regiment” (Artillery), and her grandfather was in the 14th Armed Regiment (Scinde Horse), armoured corps. After her father’s retirement in 2017, her parents moved to Garhdiwala in Hoshiarpur District, Punjab.

Her great grandfather was in the Sikh Regiment, and he fought in World War II. He had participated in the Burma campaign, and he was also a Japanese prisoner of war.

Tania did her schooling from Mumbai. She used to stay with her mother, while her father was posted in Jammu & Kashmir and the Northeast.

She had applied to the Officers Training Academy (OTA), during the last year of her engineering. In 2017, after completing her training at OTA, she got commissioned into the “Corps of Signals.”

She will be leading a 146 all-men contingent on 26 January 2020 during the Republic Day Parade. Her contingent will salute the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind on her command.

She is the second woman to lead an all-male contingent at the Republic Day Parade after “Lieutenant Bhavana Kasturi,” who had led the first all-male contingent in 2019.

On 16 January 2020, Anand Mahindra re-tweeted a video of Tania leading the parade on Army Day. He also wrote that she was incredibly inspirational, and her video of leading the parade should go viral.

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