Indian Army has started ground level preparations for training women soldiers, Apart from other officers, Lt Col Nandani and Major Julie will be part of instructors team and will start training first batch of women soldiers, most probably, in coming December.
According to a press release, Lt Gen Ashwani interviewed Lt Col Nandani in Srinagar for the role of instructor of the first ever batch of women soldiers for the Army. Lt Gen Ashwani is the Colonel Commandant of the Military Police Commenting on the selection, Lt Gen Ashwani said “First set of instructors is most important to us as it will lay down the foundation for generations to come. There will be more women officers as instructors including Maj Julie who was instructor to the first batch of women constables in Assam Rifles”.
Women soldiers are presently under the selection process from thousands of volunteers across the Nation and the training of the selected 100 candidates is likely to start in December 2019 in Bangalore. Duration of the training will be for 61 weeks just as male soldiers in the spirit that they are ‘soldiers first’.
As per plan every year, a batch of 100 women soldiers will be inducted till there will be 1700 cadre strength.
