Hoshiarpur, Jul 25 (PTI) Complimenting women for doing a commendable job in civil services as well as in the Army, Union Home minister P Chidambaram today said they have now been assigned to work in para-military forces too.
He was speaking after taking the salute from the passing out parade of the first batch of 178 women recruits at the Subsidiary Training Centre of the Border Security Force (BSF) at Kharkan, 10 kms from here.
BSF Director General M L Kumawat said that the first ever recruitment of mahila constable in North-West India was conducted at its Headquarters at Jalandhar on June 11, 2008.
As many as 640 women were selected totally out of approximately 8,500 applicants. The newly passed out mahila constables will be deployed at Border Out Posts (BOPs) for search and frisking of women crossing fencing gates, he said.
First batch of women recruits join BSF
PC takes salute from 1st batch of women BSF recruits
Union Home Minister P Chidambaram took the salute from the passing out parade of the first batch of 178 women recruits at the Subsidiary Training Centre of the at Kharkan on Saturday. Addressing a gathering after the ceremony, he said that women are not less then men as they are progressive in all fields and are contributing their share in the development of country. He also said that women of the country had a great strength and could play their role more effectively to make the nation rich and prosperous. They had already doing commendable job in civil as well as in Army sector, he said. He said that keeping in view their successful role in Army, women had been assigned to work in paramilitary forces and their recruitment had been started.PC takes salute from 1st batch of women BSF recruits
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