For the very first time, the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) has deployed a team of women commandos in anti-naxal operations in Jharkhand.
This team has 135 woman commandos belonging to the 232 battalion's Delta Company.
"On 17 October, a company of woman commandos was for the first time inducted in CRPF to counter Naxal insurgency in Jharkhand. They have started carrying out Anti-Naxal operations:, Sanjay A Lathkar,CRPF IG of Jharkhand said.
CRPF Commandment, Neeraj Pandey said, "The women are brave and currently undertaking first hand experience of Anti-Naxal operation in forests outside Ranchi. They have been provided extensive training in CRPF academies specially for countering Naxals. Since the induction of women commandos, the strength of our operation in Naxal-infested areas has increased two-fold."
