Shelbi Mishra joined as first lady pilot from Odisha in Air Asia airlines in Bangalore on June 15 on the Raja Sankranti day. Shelbi is the elder daughter of Dr Bipin Mishra and Dr Sukanti Mashra who reside presently at Mumbai. They belong to Rukunapur Sasan of Keonjhar district.
Shelbi is also the first Odia girl who completed MBA Aviation and taken extensive training from Texas USA where she had a training of 400 hours flying experience. TRIO, an international school in Bangalore, where students from 32 countries presently are studying and which is ranked among best ten schools in India, felicitated Shelbi in association with Sri Jagannath Seva Trust north Bangalore on June 15 evening in a grand function.
This function was attended by prominent Odia people from Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Bhubaneswar, Vijayawada and New Delhi. Shelbi was felicitated by TRIO School chairman KN Manjunath and CMD KM Naveen besides managing trustee of Sri Jagannath Seva Trust Ranjan Acharya. Other prominent persons present in the function were civil servant Akshya Pani, businessman Mahendra Sahu, Khirod Jena, Nihar Samantray, Dr Kananika Tripathy from Mumbai and Er Knnabiran.