Asha Sinha
Asha Sinha is a former Director General of Police in Jharkhand Police. She has the distinction of being appointed the first Woman Commandant of any of police force in the year 1992. She is a retired Indian Police Service (IPS) Officer of 1982-Batch. She has held several important assignments in the States of Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Bihar and Government of India culminating in the appointment to the senior most position, as Director General of Police in the year 2013. Personal life and education Asha Sinha was born as Asha Thampan in Kottayam, Kerala, India to PK Thampan, a Chartered Accountant working for the Kerala State Electricity Board and Smt. Valsamma Thampan, a house maker. She did her schooling from the Holy Angel's Convent Trivandrum and completed her graduation and Post-Graduation from the Government College for Women, Thiruvananthapuram. After a brief stint of Teaching in All Saints College, Thiruvananthapuram and S. N. College, Kannur, she qualified and joined the General Insurance Corporation of India as a Direct Recruit Asst. Administrative. She left the GIC to join the Indian Police Service in the year 1982. She met her future spouse Sanjoy Sinha at the General Insurance Company who also cleared the Civil Services