- Senior woman IPS officer and Home Secretary Nipuna Torawane will supervise the security arrangements
- All women police personnel, including more than 2,100 constables, 187 sub-inspectors, 61 police inspectors, 16 deputy superintendents of police, five SPs, one Inspector General of Police and one Additional DGP rank officer will handle the security
- Kiran Bedi had shattered the glass ceilings by becoming the first woman IPS office of the nation
NE NEWS SERVICE
GANDHINAGAR, MAR 7
Seven years after a 36-member all-female Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) team from North-East India had provided security cover to Prime Minister Narendra Modi during celebrations of the 72nd Independence Day at the Red Fort in New Delhi, Maa Shakthi, a security cover comprising only women police personnel, will be deployed at a mega event to be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Gujarat’s Navsari district on the occasion of International Women’s Day on Saturday-March 8. They will broke the traditional male stronghold, which will be the first such initiative in the country, Minister of State for Home Harsh Sanghavi said here on Thursday.
“The Gujarat police is taking a unique initiative on the occasion of International Women’s Day. For the first time in the history of India, only women police will handle the entire security arrangement of the PM’s event – right from his arrival at the helipad at Vansi Borsi village in Navsari till the event venue,” Minister of State for Home said.
The women police personnel will include IPS officers and constables, he said. The Prime Minister will be on a two-day visit to Gujarat and the Union Territory of Dadra and Nagar Haveli on Friday and Saturday, during which he will address the ‘Lakhpti Didi Sammelan’ at Vansi Borsi village on March 8.
“All women police personnel, including more than 2,100 constables, 187 sub-inspectors, 61 police inspectors, 16 deputy superintendents of police, five SPs, one Inspector General of Police and one Additional DGP rank officer will handle the security that day,” he said.
Senior woman IPS officer and Home Secretary Nipuna Torawane will supervise the security arrangements, the minister said. This initiative will give a strong message to the world on Women’s Day and it will also convey how women are playing an important role in making Gujarat a safe and secure State, he added.
Women in khakhi
- The princely state of Travancore was the first one to establish an all-women police force before the Independence Day
- Then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had inaugurated the nation’s first all-women police station in Kerala
- The Iron Lady of Tamil Nadu, then CM of Tamil Nadu, Jayalalithaa had declared open the first all-women police station of the state in Chennai
- Kiran Bedi had shattered the glass ceilings by becoming the first woman IPS office of the nation
- Tilagavathi was the first woman IPS officer of TN
