After 181 Years, Assam Rifles Inducts Women Recruits

Posted on April 9, 2016 0 Comments22

April 8, 2016: The Passing Out Parade of the first batch of Women Recruits of Assam
Rifles was held at the Assam Rifles Training Centre and School,
Shokhuvi, Dimapur on Wednesday with Union Minister of State for Home
Affairs Kiren Rijiju taking the salute, a press release informed.

Addressing
the ceremony, Rijiju expressed happiness to be part of the event and
reminded the AR of the Force’s rich and proud heritage and its
commitment to the country’s security. In his address to the newly
attested soldiers, Rijiju expressed confidence that the training at the
Training Centre would stand them in good stead in all their future
assignments.

The Union Minister of State for Home Affairs also
gave away the prizes to the Women recruits for their outstanding
performance during training. The newly passed out 100 Women Soldiers
will be posted to the various Battalions of the Force, the release
stated.

A total of 212 recruits were part of the parade of which
100 were women, it informed. Breaking the male bastion in the 181 years
old force, the Assam Rifles had recruited the first batch of 127 women
recruits from Recruitment rallies conducted all over India and their
subsequent reporting for training at Assam Rifles Training Centre &
School, Dimapur in March 2015.

Three Indian Army Lady Officers
were specially posted to Assam Rifles Training Centre & School in
March 2014 to plan, raise and institutionalize a separate Training
Company for women recruits at the Training Centre, the release stated.

“I
am so proud that our nation is moving forward in accepting the fact
that women can do the same job that men can do,” the release quoted
Officer In-charge of the first batch of Women recruits, Major Joshi, as
saying. The women recruits were part of the Lushai Training Company
which was formally raised on April 15, 2015.

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