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| Women to guard India's borders soon | | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Feb 28
Breaking another male domain, women will soon guard the borders of the country with the government deciding to recruit 750 women constables for the Border Security Force (BSF).
The Union Home Ministry has sanctioned the recruitment of 750 women constables for the 2,10,261-strong BSF and a notification in this regard was issued on Wednesday evening.
Out of the 750 personnel, 650 will be deployed in Punjab while the remaining will be put on duty in West Bengal, BSF Director General A K Mitra told reporters in New Delhi on Thursday.
''The sanction is against normal vacancies and the home ministry has decided to recruit women constables this time. No officers will be recruited this time,'' he said.
The ministry will also ask the CRPF to depute some women officers to BSF, Mitra added.Though BSF has women in ministerial staff, this will be the first time that constables will be recruited to constabulary.
A senior BSF official said women will be deployed in border areas and this move is being perceived as very important in the wake of movement of women across borders.
''These women will assist those already deployed in border areas. They will help in the screening the women who are crossing the borders and so on,'' he added.However, he said, unlike CRPF, BSF has no plans to raise an exclusive battalion of women as of now.
Among para-military forces, CRPF has two exclusive battalions of women and a 100-member strong company is in Liberia to assist the UN Peacekeeping Force there.
Emphasising the need for an increase in the number of women in police forces, Home Minister Shivraj Patil has hoped that their number will constitute 10 per cent of the total manpower within a decade. |
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