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India’s First Female Civil Engineer Built 69 Bridges From Kashmir to Arunachal Pradesh

In 1953, Shakuntala A Bhagat, the daughter of a bridge engineer was the first Indian woman to obtain a civil engineering degree from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute in Mumbai. She was the pioneer to research and develop bridge superstructures. Along with her...