Meet Bipasha, Tripura’s first woman air traffic controller

Agartala: Meet Bipasha Hrangkhwal, the first woman air traffic controller (ATC) from Tripura, who has been working at the Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport in Agartala for the past one year.

Speaking with EastMojo, Bipasha said, “It was my father who always had a wish to see me one day working at ATC. Since my childhood, we used to sit and watch the show called Air Crash Investigation on National Geographic Channel together. Every time we watched the show, he used to ask me to apply for the job in future.”

“Working at ATC is quite challenging since anything can happen in a fraction of second and we have to make decisions as quickly as possible. Or else, flights may get delayed and even cause danger to hundreds of lives,” she added.