New Delhi,
\nIn another first for women, 25-year-old Prakriti has been inducted as the first direct-entry combat officer in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police.<\/p>\n
The ITBP is the last of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) to induct women officers in combat roles after the government first allowed it to enrol them in 2016.<\/p>\n
Prakriti had cleared the UPSC exam for officers\u2019 recruitment in CAPFs in her first attempt. \u201cI always had a desire to don the uniform. My father, who is in the Air Force, has always been an inspiration. I opted for ITBP as my first choice,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Prakriti, who hails from Bihar\u2019s Samastipur, has completed her BE and is currently based in an ITBP unit at Uttarakhand\u2019s Pithoragarh. She will soon join the Officers\u2019 Training Academy of the force in Dehradun.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is expected to be commissioned as an Assistant Commandant next year after she completes her training,\u201d a senior ITBP officer said. The force already has women in combat roles but only in the constable rank.<\/p>\n
Prakriti, who says her parents gave her a surname-less identity in a caste-ridden society, said she never faced discrimination at home. \u201cI urge other parents that when their children make career choices, they should only see it as their child taking up a challenge, not their son or daughter,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi, In another first for women, 25-year-old Prakriti has been inducted as the first direct-entry combat officer in the Indo-Tibetan Border Police. The ITBP is the last of the Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) to induct women officers in combat roles after the government first allowed it to enrol them in 2016. Prakriti had […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[312,315],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24187,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24184\/revisions\/24187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}