Cavalier India Defence Training Academy

  100 women recruits went through a gruelling year of physical and procedural training. And they are now ready to be posted in 11 units of the Indian Army When they first arrived, they had some inhibitions. They would cry sometimes, or miss home, but almost all of the 100 women recruits had their eyes firmly set on their goal — to become a soldier with the Indian Army. It’s been over a year now, and the recruits of the first batch of women soldiers of the Indian Army, who have been undergoing training at the Corps of Military Police (CMP) in Bengaluru, are a transformed bunch. Their trainers are proud and their family struggles to recognise them. “The induction of women soldiers to the Army and CMP has been a significant step towards achieving gender parity and this is a historic decision by the Indian Army. I am sure it will pave the way as a harbinger for a step to be adopted by sister services of the defence forces in times to come,” said Brigadier C Dayalan, commandant CM...