Picture Quiz Set 2 – Naga Personalities

Banuo Z Jamir, the First Naga woman to become an IAS officer.
Also the first Woman Chief Secretary of Nagaland.

First Naga novelist to write in English: Easterine Kire

Lt. Col. (Dr.) Neikhrietuonuo Linyu of the Indian Army- First Naga or Naga Woman to conquer Mount Everest.
She also served as the chief medical officer at UNIFIL headquarters, UN Peace Keeping Force

• Rano M. Shaiza: First woman Member of Parliament from Nagaland
• First president of the Women’s Federation, Naga National Council
• First Naga Woman President of the United Democratic Party, Nagaland

First Naga Woman to be Chairman of a Village Council : Tokheli Kikon, of Naharbari Village, Dimapur

• Awarded “Nari Shakti Puruskar”,the highest civilian honour for women in India: Hekani Jakhalu Kense (2019)
• Earlier recipients of “Nari Shakti Puruskar” from Nagaland includes Bano Haralu (2016), Zuboni Humtsoe (2016)

Chekrovolu Swuro – the first Naga Woman Olympian, the second Naga Olympian

• Founding editor and publisher of the English newspaper Nagaland Page