Chandrasekhar Rao congratulates navy officer selected for Tenzing Norgay Award

Telangana caretaker chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao Tuesday congratulated Aishwarya Boddapati, a navy officer, on being selected for the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award 2017.

The Chief Minister said it was an honor to the state and wished Aishwarya all the best and expressed the hope that she would get more and more such awards in future also, a release from the CMO said.

Boddapati, a native of Telangana, is part of the all-women crew who achieved the amazing feat of circumnavigating the globe in 254 days, recently.

She will be presented the award on September 25, according to the release.