Who is Tania Shergill? Here’s everything about first woman Republic Day parade adjutant!

In a first, captain Tania Shergill, an officer with Army’s Corps of Signals, will be the first woman parade adjutant for the Republic Day parade.

For the unversed, a parade adjutant is responsible for the parade. Now a captain with the Indian Army’s Corps of Signals, Tania led all-men contingents and became the first woman Parade Adjutant in the history of the Army Day function.

About Tania Shergill

Commissioned in March 2017, from the Officer Training Academy, Chennai, Shergill is an electronics and communications graduate. Tania is currently posted at 1-Signal Training Centre in Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh.

Captain Tania’s family mostly lived in Mumbai where her mother worked as a teacher. After her parent’s retirement, the family moved to Garhdiwala, a small town in the Hoshiarpur district of Punjab around nine years ago.

Both her father and grandfather have served in the Army. Her father was in 101 Medium Regiment (Artillery) while her grandfather was in the 14th Armed Regiment (Scinde Horse). Interestingly, her great grandfather was in the Sikh Regiment.

For the uninitiated, in the year 2019, all the three forces — navy, army, and the air force — marched together in an all-women contingent. Captain Bhavna Kasturi was the first woman officer to lead an all-men contingent.

Shergill, a fourth-generation woman army officer will break a glass ceiling on Wednesday when she becomes the first female to lead an all-men contingent at the Army Day Parade.

Way to go Tania!

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