In another heartening development for the country after the recent achievements being made by women athletes in olympics, India has got it's first woman engineer for underground mines.

In a new example of breaking the gender barriers, Akanksha Kumari became the first ever female mining engineer in India who is working with the underground coal mines.

Akanksha joined CCL at its Churi underground mines in the Jharkhand’s North Karanpura area and her achievement was shared by the social media handle of the CCL, a subsidiary of Coal India.

“A graduate of BIT Sindri, Ms Kumari broke the gender barriers by joining Churi UG mine, NK Area. She became the 1st women mining engineer in the history of CIL to work in underground mines," it said.

Akanksha’s achievement was also hailed by the Union Minister of Coal, Mines and Parliamentary Affairs Shri Pralhad Joshi who called it a part of progressive governance that promoted gender equality and helped to generate more opportunities.

Akanksha is only the second mining engineer in Maharatna conglomerate Coal India Limited and the first woman who is now working in the underground coal mines.

Hailing from Barkagaon in Hazaribagh, Akanksha was a student of Navodaya Vidyalaya and as she grew up in a mining belt, coal mining activities interested her since long and she decided to study mining engineering due to this at BIT Sindri, Dhanbad, a statement by the Bihar’s Press Information Bureau, Central Coalfields said.

Akansha credits her family for unflinching support to follow her dreams and that's what every family in our country is supposed to follow.

We can't become a gender equal society on it's own.If we aspire to achieve this distant dream, families along with the society should support the aspirational youth of this country wholeheartedly without putting their dreams under gender barriers.

If we manage to bring this kind of behavioural change in society, then only sky is the limit for us.!

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