The 26-year-old former volleyball star scaled up 8,848m on 21 May at about 11 in the morning.
Arunima, a team member of Tata Group's Econ Expedition, climbed on a prosthetic leg and unfurled the tricolour on the mountain peak.
Hailing from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, Arunima lost her leg on 11 April 2011, when thieves pushed her onto the track from her train carriage.
She was travelling from Lucknow when the thieves attempted to snactch her necklace and purse, according to her brother Rahul Sinha. Thrown out of the Padmavati Express, she was hit by another train, leading to amputating her left leg below the knee.
Braving the injuries Arunima quickly returned to normal life, and while still in hospital she expressed her ambition to scale the M.Everest.
She wanted to prove that she could outdo pain and suffering and she was motivated a lot by Bachendri Pal, a top official at Tata Steel Adenture Foundation and the first woman to scale Mount Everest.
Arunima spent about two months acclimatizing by trekking in Northern India and Nepal to prepare for the ascent.
She had scaled the 6622-metre peak at Chamser Kangri, Ladakh last year.
Arunima's feat came a day after Tashi and Nancy had become the first twins to conquer the highest mountain.
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