Droupadi Murmu

India’s current President is the first ever born after independence — every President before her had been born under British rule. This article covers Droupadi Murmu’s life and presidency.

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Droupadi Murmu

The first President born after India’s independence

1979

Graduates with a BA

First woman from her village to do so, later working as a teacher.

2015

Becomes Governor of Jharkhand

Serves until 2021, after earlier holding ministerial posts in Odisha.

25 Jul 2022

Sworn in as 15th President

First President from a tribal community, and the first born after independence.

25 Jul 2026

Completes four years in office

Rashtrapati Bhavan marks the milestone with a new multilingual visitor e-Audio Guide.

A Generational Marker

Every President before her was born under British rule. For the first time, India’s Head of State has no lived memory of colonial rule at all.

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Must Know

• Droupadi Murmu is India’s 15th and current President, sworn in on 25 July 2022.
• Born on 20 June 1958 in Uparbeda, Mayurbhanj district, Odisha, she belongs to the Santhal tribal community.
• She is the first President from a tribal community, and the first President born after India’s independence.
• At 64, she became India’s youngest President at the time of taking office.
• She served as Governor of Jharkhand from 2015 to 2021, before her presidency.

Good to Know

• She completed her Bachelor of Arts in 1979, from Rama Devi Women’s College, Bhubaneswar. She was the first woman from her village to do so.
• She worked as a teacher before entering politics, and later held ministerial positions in the Odisha state government.
• She is India’s second woman President, after Pratibha Patil.

Test Yourself

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1. Droupadi Murmu belongs to which tribal community?

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Great to Know

• Murmu’s path — teacher, then state minister, then Governor, then President — shows a route to the office built entirely through elected and appointed state-level service, distinct from Kalam’s scientific route or Radhakrishnan’s academic one.
• Being the first President born after 1947 is a generational marker as much as a personal one — it means, for the first time, no President has any lived memory of colonial rule.
• Her election continued a pattern of the presidency being used to represent groups outside the Constitution’s original framers — following K.R. Narayanan (first Dalit) and Ram Nath Kovind (second Dalit) as recent examples of the same broader shift.

Current Affairs

• President Murmu completed four years in office on 25 July 2026. To mark this, Rashtrapati Bhavan launched new visitor initiatives, including an e-Audio Guide available in Hindi, English, and 14 other Indian languages. (Source: PIB)