Parveen Talha is an Indian civil servant, reported to be the first Muslim woman to serve in any Class I civil service in India, the first Indian Revenue Service officer to become a member of the Union Public Service Commission and the first woman to serve in Narcotics Department of India.
13 Facts About Parveen Talha
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Parveen Talha was honoured by the Government of India, in 2014, by bestowing on her the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, for her services to Indian Civil Service.
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Parveen Talha was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh in India, as one of the two children, in the famous Awadh family.
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Parveen Talha's father, Mohammed Talha, was a freedom fighter and a known lawyer, a participant in the Jang-e-Azadi independence struggle who chose to remain in India when his brother moved to Pakistan during the partition.
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Parveen Talha started her career as a lecturer of economics at the Lucknow University in 1965 where she worked till 1969, the year she passed Indian Civil Service examination.
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Parveen Talha joined Indian Revenue Service in 1969, becoming the first Muslim woman to enter the Revenue Service.
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Parveen Talha is credited with making NACEN an accredited training institute of the World Customs Organization's for Asia-Pacific region.
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Parveen Talha is reported to have introduced training modules for stopping the smuggling of ozone depleting substances.
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Parveen Talha was successful in signing a Memorandum of Understanding with United Nations Environment Program, making NACEN, the only training academy for imparting training for the control of ozone depleting substmces and environmental crimes.
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Parveen Talha retired from the Revenue Service in 2004 as the senior most woman officer of the Customs and Central Excise and on 30 September 2004, became a member of the Union Public Service Commission.
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Parveen Talha was the first IRS officer and Muslim woman to become a member of UPSC.
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Parveen Talha retired from Government service on 3 October 2009.
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Parveen Talha is a recipient of President's Award for distinguished service, which she received in 2000.