TS to recruit 33% women in state police force

Hyderabad,(Agency)30 Oct: Telangana is set to implement, voluntarily, 33% reservation in the state police force. The decision will be notified in a few days’ time, according to highly placed sources in the government. The state government is recruiting 7,000 personnel, out of which 33%, 2100, would be women.

The initiative for the move came from the higher echelons of the police, and Chief Minister K.Chandrasekhara Rao gave the nod without much ado. It was decided that



instead of creating a few all-women police stations, which would be mere tokens, it would be better to have women in all the police stations across the state.

The 33% principle would apply to staffing pattern in all the police stations. It is being argued that the presence of women in all the police stations would not only result in the empowerment of the women in the force, but it would also encourage women to go to the police stations to register their complaints.