title: Reshma Nilofer Naha
text: # Reshma Nilofer Naha
  
  Reshma Nilofer Visalakshi is an Indian maritime pilot who currently involves in steering ships from sea to Kolkata & Haldia port. She became the first Indian as well as one among world's very few female marine pilots after qualifying as a river pilot in 2018. She received Nari Shakti Puraskar Award in 2019 from the current Indian President Ram Nath Kovind.
  
  She joined the Kolkata Port Trust in 2011 as a trainee and became Hooghly River pilot in 2018. She holds a B.E in Marine Technology from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi.
  
  