A SOCIETY OF EQUALS: Comprehending parallel endowments | Ira Singhal | TEDxCVS

Ira Singhal, the topper of the IAS exam in 2014, is the first person with disability to top the prestigious Civil Services Examination of India. She has B.E. and MBA degrees and has worked as a Strategy Manager for Cadbury India Limited.
Ira Singhal addresses the issues related to the importance of women in directorial committees and how that approach leads to a better world and how that mind set is what will lead to a more progressive approach. She speaks about how it isn't the geographical location which makes a community forward minded, but how mature its people, both males and females are.
She apprises the crowd of how she had observed the striking dissimilarity in between herself and the women she had come across, being independent both financially and emotionally, while they remained prey to the flawed patriarchal system.
Ira Singhal is the first person with disability to top the prestigious Civil Services Examination of India. She has B.E. and MBA degrees and has worked as a Strategy Manager for Cadbury India Limited.
Before her selection as an IAS officer in 2015, she was rejected thrice by the government as an IRS officer in the same exam despite clearing it, due to her disability. But she didn’t let these failures knock her down, instead she thought that failures are the stepping stones to success. She decided to fight the rejection in CAT and won after a long battle. Before joining as an IRS officer, she gave the exam again and this time she got selected as an IAS officer.
She currently serves as SDM of Alipur sub-division in North Delhi district. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx