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Women's participation in the army; open
admission to Sainik Schools:
Admission of girls to Sainik Schools The government has decided that initially 33 percent of
posts at the constable level in CRPF and CISF and 14–15
Commencement SESSION 2021–2022 percent of posts in Border Guard Forces-BSF, SSB, and ITBP
will be reserved for women. Currently, only 3.68 percent of
SAINIK SCHOOLS NOW OPEN posts in all agencies, including 6.37 percent in CISF, are held
by women.
FOR GIRLS' ADMISSION In order to increase the representation of women in the police
Scheme
forces of all Union Territories, including Delhi Police, the
Objective: To Provide opportunities government of India has approved 33 per cent reservation
for women in the Army for women in the recruitment of non-gazetted posts from
constable to sub-inspector on 20th March, 2015.
According to the data released by the Bureau of Police
Sainik School Chhingchhip Research and Development in January 2020, the participation
admitted girls cadets as of women police personnel by the police of the state and
a pilot project for the first union territories is 10.3 percent, which has been advised
time in 2018-2019 as per the by the central government to the states to increase it to
policy of the Sainik School 33 percent. Each police station should have 3 female sub-
Society, after the success inspectors and 10 constables so that the women's help desk
of which 10 percent of class can function round the clock.
6 vacancies in all Sainik Progress There really are 10,493 female officers in the Defense Forces,
Schools were kept for girls. including 4734 serving in the Army Nursing Service. During
In the academic year 2021– the year 2021, 60 women candidates were commissioned as
2022, 320 girl students officers in the Indian Army. In the period between 2018 and
were admitted to 33 Sainik 2021, 170 female candidates were recruited as officers in the
Schools in class VI. For the Navy.
academic session 2022– The Indian Air Force has commissioned 15 women fighter
2023, 335 vacancies are pilots till March 28, 2022, and women officers are now being
available for girl students. inducted into all combat roles. Similarly, 28 female officers
have been deployed on the ships in the Navy. Female officers
Similarly, 1, 16,891 girls are also deployed in combat roles on naval aircraft and
appeared in the exam held helicopter transportable ships.
for NDA 2022 in November Provision for recruitment of women for other ranks in the
2021. The selection process Military Police Corps of the Indian Army was introduced in
for recruitment in this batch 2019. Under this scheme, recruitment is to be done on an
is still going on. annual basis in a phased manner. A total of 100 people have
been trained for the 2019-2020 vacancy.
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