Addl superintendent of police from Adilabad district, G.R. Radhika, became the first Indian woman police officer to climb Mount Everest in May. Radhika, who hails from Anantapur, was the only woman in the six-member Indian team led by Transcend Adventures, Hyderabad. The police officer planted the national flag and also the Telangana state police flag on the summit. The Telangana police department and the state government had supported her in the expedition.
In 2015, Radhika became the first Indian woman to climb the 7,077-metre Mt. Kun. She is also an avid skier. Last December, she led a team to help the Chennai flood victims. Working as an Addl SP in Adilabad since August 2015, Radhika has earlier been posted in Karimnagar, Anantapur and Nellore districts. An English post-graduate from Sri Venkateswara University, Tirupati, Radhika was selected by APPPSC in 2001 as a government lecturer and had worked for six years before becoming DSP through APPSC in 2007.
The Adilabad ASP expressed her gratitude to Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao for giving financial support and said she owed her success to Telangana DGP Anurag Sharma and others who encouraged her. A mother of two sons, Preetham and Shashank, Radhika attributes her success to her mother Balabharathi and her husband P. Venugopalreddy without whose support she says she couldn’t have done it.
