No plans for new women’s battalions in paramilitary forces

By IANS,

New Delhi : There are no plans for raising new women’s battalions or reserve battalions in the central armed police forces (CAPFs), parlaiment was informed Tuesday.


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“At present, there is no proposal for setting-up any women battalion/reserve battalion in the CAPFs apart from ones already sanctioned,” Minister of State for Home Jitendra Singh Tuesday said (CAPF) in a written reply.

Singh said that one women’s battalion in the Central Reserve Police Force(CRPF) was sanctioned in 2009 and was stationed in Kolkata.

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