Around 600 young women — between 19 to 21 years old — hailing from different parts of Uttarakhand will be undergoing intensive training to qualify in the recruitment process that the Army will be conducting early next year to induct women as jawans in its Corps of Military Police (CMP). The training camps which are being organised by the Uttarkashi-based Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM), one of the premier mountaineering institutes in the country. in association with an NGO Youth Foundation Uttarakhand are believed to be the first such initiative to coach women interested in joining the Army as jawans.
The camps will be held in Srinagar (in Pauri Garhwal) and Dehradun and will commence from October 22.
Read more of this in a report by Yeshika Budhwar published in Times of India...
