After a long wait for Women to be permanently commissioned into the forces, the Indian Army has finally opened its ranks to female officers from eight different streams. The Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force were the first to recruit women as cadets.

The fields that are now open to women include Signals, Engineering, Army Aviation, Army Air Defence, EME (Electronics & Mechanical Engineering), Army Service Corps, Ordnance Corps, and Intelligence.

The first batch is set to start training from December and by 2021, the first batch of Women Soldiers will be commissioned. These women will be inducted into the Corps of Military Police of the Indian Army. They aim to induct a hundred women soldiers every year for the next 17 years in order to reach the target of having 1700 women soldiers in the military.

Although, these eight streams open up a wide range of opportunities for women who are keen on getting into the forces, ground-based combat missions are still off limits for women. Read More

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