TODAY -
AR gets its first women contingent
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, April 01 2016 :
The 181- year old Assam Rifles (AR) has inducted the first batch of 100 women from among 212 recruits who were put through a yearlong training programme and graduated from the Assam Rifles Training Centre and School in Nagaland's Shokhuvi on April 6 .
The Assam Rifles under dual control of Home and Defence Ministries, broke tradition last March to admit 127 women for training at its School in Dimapur after they were selected through recruitment rallies conducted across the country, according to a statement issued by the PRO of IGAR (S).
27 women didn't clear the programme either on medical grounds or failed to clear basic tests.
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Three Indian Army Lady Officers were specially posted to the Dimapur School in March 2014 to plan, raise and institutionalise a separate Training Company for women recruits at the Training Centre.
The company was named Lushai Company after a British era hill province that later became a district of undivided Assam and eventually the State of Mizoram.
"The newly-inducted women soldiers will be posted to various Battalions of the Force to be used for checking and interrogating women when needed, dispersing female mobs, crowd control and tackling agitation involving women," Lt Gen HJS Sachdev, Director General Assam Rifles said on the occasion.
The women soldiers will also be posted in all districts of Manipur under IGAR (South) and employed for various tasks.
They will play a crucial role in avoiding accusations of human rights violations and projecting a clean image of the force, it said.
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