Army inducting women as jawans for military police

New Delhi: In a historic first, the Army on Thursday began the process to induct women in military police, nearly two years after Army Chief Gen. Bipin Rawat said women will be recruited as jawans.

The Army started the online registration for recruitment for women in the Corps of Military Police and the last date for filing application has been fixed as June 8.

The Army has planned induction of around 800 women in military police with an yearly intake of 52 personnel.

The role of the military police includes policing cantonments and Army establishments, preventing breach of rules and regulations by soldiers, maintaining movement of soldiers as well as logistics during peace and war and extending aid to civil police whenever required.

At present, women are allowed in select areas such as medical, legal, educational, signals and engineering wings of the Army.

In June 2017,Army Chief Gen. Bipin Rawat had said the Army was looking at inducting women jawans and the process would start with the induction of women into military police corps.