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Vijay Mohan
Chandigarh, April 6
The variety of girls personnel in National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) battalions is envisioned to be about 9 per cent of the full energy, however at current it’s only a notch above one per cent.
The Ministry of Home Affairs had requested all Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) to supply 108 girls personnel for every NDRF battalion and up to now solely 170 girls have joined NDRF, the ‘Review of National Disaster Response Force’ tabled by the Committee on Estimates in Parliament on April 4 has revealed.
The NDRF has operational 12 battalions, which means that the present requirement of ladies personnel is 1,296. Another 4 battalions are within the technique of being raised, which throws up a further requirement of 432 girls personnel. Each NDRF battalion has 1,149 personnel and consumption of ladies can be inside this energy.
Appreciating the concept of ladies personnel in NDRF for rescue and aid operations for ladies victims of disasters, the Committee has advisable that sports activities girls and senior NCC girls cadets who’re bodily match and fulfill NDRF pre-conditions could also be thought-about for induction in order that the presence of enough girls personnel in every NDRF battalion could be ensured inside a stipulated time-frame.
NDRF bought its first batch of 100 skilled girls rescuers in January 2021, which was deployed on the banks of the Ganga in Garh Mukteshwar in Uttar Pradesh. Rescue boats and related equipments had been dealt with by them on contingency duties. The present Commandant of an NDRF battalion primarily based in south India occurs to be a lady officer.
Raised in 2006 with eight battalions, NDRF is remitted to supply specialist response to pure calamities or man-made disasters. The complete manpower of NDRF is drawn on deputation from the CAPF’s which embody the Assam Rifles (AR), Border Security Force (BSF), Central Industrial Security Force (CISF), Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police Force (ITBP) and the Shashtra Seema Bal (SSB).
While girls personnel in NDRF are accounting for 1.23 per cent of its manpower, the energy of ladies within the CAPFs is 3.67 per cent, the best 6.37 per cent being in CISF and the bottom, 2.83 per cent being in ITBP, based on the house ministry’s information.
On the opposite hand, 10.30 per cent personnel throughout all ranks in state police forces throughout the nation are girls. The quantity is highest in Bihar with 25.30 per cent and lowest in Jammu and Kashmir with 3.31 per cent, the ministry’s information exhibits.
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