{"id":269477,"date":"2025-08-25T00:09:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=269477"},"modified":"2025-08-25T00:09:48","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:39:48","slug":"cisf-to-have-all-women-commando-team-for-security-of-sensitive-installations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/cisf-to-have-all-women-commando-team-for-security-of-sensitive-installations\/","title":{"rendered":"CISF to have all-women commando team for security of sensitive installations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>NEW DELHI, 24 Aug:<\/strong> The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has decided to create an all-women commando team for conducting specialised counter-terrorist operations, officials said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A group of 100 female personnel deployed across the country as part of the aviation security group (ASG) guarding civilian airports are the first to be trained for the task.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The about 1.70 lakh-strength CISF is primarily tasked to guard 69 civil airports, the Delhi metro and a number of other vital installations in the government and private domains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The training for the first batch of the women personnel in commando skills has been started at a training centre located in Barwaha, Madhya Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This eight-week advanced commando course will prepare women personnel for quick reaction team (QRT) and special task force (STF) duties at high-security establishments and plants,&#8221; a CISF official said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The personnel will be trained in physical fitness and weapons training, live-fire drills under stress, endurance-building exercises like running, obstacle courses, rappelling, survival training in forests, and a 48-hour confidence-building exercise designed to test decision-making and teamwork under adverse conditions, he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The central armed police force, which functions under the union home ministry, has 12,491 women (8 percent of its strength) in its ranks at present.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In 2026, 2,400 more women staff will be recruited and in the coming years, recruitment will be structured in such a way that women consistently make up at least 10 percent of the force as per the directions of the home ministry, the official said. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI, 24 Aug: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has decided to create an all-women commando team for conducting specialised counter-terrorist operations, officials said on Sunday. A group of 100 female personnel deployed across the country as part of the aviation security group (ASG) guarding civilian airports are the first to be trained for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-269477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-national"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}