Republic Day 2024: Amid a significant effort to promote feminine participation in army and different sectors, the Republic Day parade will see participation solely by ladies in march pasts by forces, tableaux and performances. A observe has been circulated to all the defence forces together with different necessary stake holders by the ceremonial department of the Ministry of Defence which organises the Republic Day parade in coordination with all different ministries and departments, defence sources advised media.
“After detailed deliberations, it has been decided that Republic Day 2024 will have women participation, including contingents (marching and bands), tableaux and performances during the parade at the Kartavya Path,” they mentioned.
The Defence Ministry has apprised different ministries together with Home Affairs, Culture and Urban Development in regards to the resolution to maintain the all ladies parade within the coming 12 months. In current years, the defence forces and paramilitary contingents have chosen ladies contingent commanders and deputy commanders consistent with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s drive to promote ladies’s participation in all attainable roles within the army as they’ve been given command alternatives together with deployment in fight roles.
Due to such alternatives, ladies have been in a position to be fighter pilots within the Indian Air Force and have additionally been inducted into Army as jawans. Recently, the Army additionally opened up the Regiment of Artillery for ladies officers.
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All the collaborating ministries, departments and organisations have additionally been requested to provoke preparations for a similar and share the progress made with the Defence Ministry from time to time. Some senior officers imagine that the federal government will do what’s sensible, and in the interim it’s troublesome to have solely feminine contributors in all marching and band contingents.
Significantly, the marching contingents of the infantry within the Republic Day parade represent the most important variety of personnel. Officials argue that girls haven’t but been included within the infantry. Officers who lead marching contingents encompass personnel under officer rank (PBOR) and the Army has the PBOR cadre ladies personnel solely within the Military Police Corps, they assert.
However, it’s not that girls haven’t any illustration in power or that girls are marginalised. They are being assigned roles equal to males in all three companies – they fly fighter plane, serve on warships, are inducted into the PBOR cadre, are eligible for everlasting fee, are assigned command roles, and in addition ladies officers are present process coaching on the National Defence Academy. Despite this, infantry, tanks and fight positions nonetheless shouldn’t have that participation of girls.
According to the Indian Army, Colonel Geeta Rana has just lately grow to be the primary woman military officer to command an unbiased unit within the delicate Ladakh area bordering China. Apart from this, for the primary time, the military has deployed a woman officer Captain Shiva Chauhan on this planet’s highest and coldest battlefield Siachen this 12 months itself. The military has additionally deployed its largest contingent of 27 ladies peacekeepers to the disputed area of Abyei in Sudan.
(With companies inputs)
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