On Saturday, Ravneet Kaur, the first female chairperson of the Competition Commission of India (CCI), shared insights about her journey as a top bureaucrat, overcoming obstacles in a career spanning over 30 years.
At the CNBC-TV18's 'Future Female Forward - Season 2' event, Kaur said, "I was the daughter of a civil servant. During the India-Pak war in the year 1971-72, I got to see my father very closely as a District Magistrate in the border state of Punjab. That's what became the inspiration for me. But things are not that simple. There's a jinx... You may belong to a bureaucratic family, but you are four daughters. That's not something which fits into the social milieu."
Kaur, a 1998 Punjab cadre IAS officer, shared that she was the eldest of the four daughters in the family.
Besides serving the central government and the Punjab government, she has also held senior positions in various organisations like the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), Punjab National Bank (PNB), Export Import Bank of India (EXIM Bank) and Irrigation & Water Resources Finance Corporation (IWRFC).
Ravneet Kaur joined the Competition Commission of India as its chairperson on May 23 last year.
"Today, in the organisation, we stand at an important juncture. We are now making a significant shift to trust-based regulation, wherein we are looking at a new commitment framework for a new market correction, a new settlement framework for remedies and final closure, and an introduction of deal value thresholds... Very soon, you will see the new CCI coming into place and operationalising all these various changes," she concluded.
Watch Ravneet Kaur's entire speech at the CNBC-TV18's 'Future Female Forward - Season 2' event here.
(Edited by : Sriram Iyer)
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