In a First, Women Jawans to Man BSF's Outpost in Jaisalmer

By: WE Staff | Monday, 1 April 2024

India is recognising women’s might and is giving them increased responsibility to protect the country’s borders. Aligning with this, Jaisalmer’s Shahgarh Bulge area has become home to India’s very first border outpost (BOP) to be exclusively manned by women jawans of the Border Security Force (BSF). 

BSF Director General, Nitin Agarwal broke the news to the media that only women jawans have been deployed at the Nalka BOP. He was addressing the media while on a visit to the international border in Bikaner. 

Nitin Agarwal took stock of the security arrangements at the border outposts. He then addressed the media and told them how India’s female jawans have been given the responsibility to protect the border at par with their male counterparts.

In his address to the media, Nitin Agarwal said, “Looking at the increasing number of women jawans, it has been planned to make separate outposts for women and on an experimental basis a border outpost at Nalka has been made at Shahgarh Bulj in Jaisalmer Sector South in which only women jawans have been deployed. If these experiments are successful, then it will be implemented in the remaining sectors in the country and the management of the BOP will be done by the women jawans”.

He also expressed his pleasure at seeing women jawans manning the country’s borders at Nalka. Nitin Agarwal informed the media that he had a word with the women jawans where he not only praised their contribution to safeguarding the country’s borders but also boosted their morale.