Female Jawans To Join The Indian Army For The First Time Ever & Twitter Can’t Keep Calm!

For countless decades, women have been excluded from certain professional areas after being deemed as unfit by those in power and by society at large. The place which women have today in fields like sports or even science is a result of years revolution. While there’s still a lot of work to be done, each milestone achieved is worth celebrating.

The Indian Army recently opened a new avenue for women. They initiated recruitment for women as jawans in the corps of the military by starting their online registration.

For the first time, Indian Army to start online registration of women for recruitment as soldiers into the military police, today. The project was mooted by General Bipin Rawat soon after taking over as Army Chief and given final approval by the Defence Ministry recently. pic.twitter.com/nIssIN62zX

— ANI (@ANI) April 25, 2019

They also posted an ad in the newspaper.

Historic day for women, with reference to defence services, today, wherein the formal advert for female candidates in the Military Police is issued by the @adgpi. The first occasion when applications are being sought at Soldier (Jawan) level for regular employment in the Army🇮🇳♀️ pic.twitter.com/h0ebR9WBYd

— Navdeep Singh (@SinghNavdeep) April 25, 2019

This is a major step ahead for women in the military. Till now they were only inducted as officers and posted in select areas such as medical, legal, educational, signals and engineering wings of the Army.

Now women will be seen taking a “combat role” which includes policing cantonments and army establishments, preventing the breach of rules and regulations by soldiers, maintaining movement of soldiers as well as logistics during peace and war, handling prisoners of war, and extending aid to civil police.

According to The Economic Times, women will be recruited in a graded manner and will eventually comprise of 20% of the total corps of the military.

People across the country are celebrating the news and are lauding the inclusion of more women into the forces.

this is best opportunity for girls 👍👍👍👍👍

— The Great Brahman Rawan (@BrahmanGreat) April 25, 2019

https://twitter.com/__lakshmi_/status/1121303328053321728

Yes ! I saw this too in the newspaper ! Happy to see a new beginning…. just hope the infrastructure for induction of women at that level is ready unlike 27 years ago ….when women officers were first inducted. Cheers 👍

— Wg Cdr Gitika (R) (@gitika9) April 25, 2019

New achievement Make history

— Mr Shivam (@shiv9819_) April 25, 2019

https://twitter.com/bhatta703/status/1121253993232109569

More power to women✊✊✊✊

— Dharma Sankhla (@DharmaSankhla07) April 25, 2019

This is a huge victory for women and a historic decision made by the government!

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