Hoshiarpur, July 25: Women are not less then men as they are progressive in all fields and are contributing their share in the development of Country, Union Home Minister P Chidambaram said here on Saturday.
Chidambaram takes salute of BSF women recruitsAddressing a gathering 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, he 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 para military forces and their recruitment had been started.
The first batch of 178 recruits had completed 36 weeks of rigorous training.
In fact, this is first ever in modern India, when women were being deployed on combat role on the international border in parity with their male comrades-in-arms in true spirit of Indian Government policy of women empowerment.
Further recruitment of women recruits would also be done in future, he said.
He appreciated the first impressive passing out perade of women recruits.
The Union Home minister gave away the prizes to the women recruits for their out-standing performance during training.
–Agencies