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For the first time in history, Indian Army has deployed female soldiers for internal security and combat duties near the line of control with Pakistan, reports TOI.    Zee News   The women platoon is from paramilitary force Assam Rifles and has been stationed in the Tangdhar sector of north Kashmir. These 30 woman soldiers are led by Captain Gursimran Kaur of the Army Service Corps (ASC), who is a third-generation military officer of her family. “Deployed at security checkpoints leading to the LoC, the women soldiers are also being used for crowd control and frisking of women because there are intelligence inputs of weapons and drugs being smuggled across,” TOI quoted the officer as saying. The Indian Army has been recruiting women in small numbers but only as officers till now. Women are also not a part of ‘fighting arms’ of infantry, armoured corps, mechanised infantry and artillery. Incredible! Indian Army Riflewomen deployed for the first time along Line of Control be...

The Selection Board for the new incumbents for PC will be scheduled as soon as all affected SSC Women Officers exercise their option and complete requisite documentation. Representative Image The government on Thursday gave the final go-ahead to permanent induction of women Army officers in eight more streams. The Army said in a statement: “The government has issued the formal sanction letter for grant of Permanent Commission (PC) to women officers in the Indian Army, paving the way for empowering women officers to shoulder larger roles in the organisation.” The order specifies grant of PC to Short Service Commissioned (SSC) women officers in eight more streams of the Indian Army — Army Air Defence (AAD), Signals, Engineers, Army Aviation, Electronics and Mechanical Engineers (ASC), Army Service Corps (ASC), Army Ordnance Corps (AOC), and Intelligence Corps. These streams come under combat support and services. Women are not commissioned in the combat stream. The women officers have al...