New Delhi, May 17 (PTI) To ensure better working conditions for women in armed police forces, the Government has come out with a fresh set of guidelines for deployment of such personnel in BSF, SSB and ITBP by posting them at border posts close to their hometowns.
The new guidelines also mandate that if a woman personnel is married, she should be stationed at the same place where her husband is posted provided he too is a government employee.
"In order to ensure better working conditions for these women personnel it has been decided to post them closer to their families and hometowns. By this arrangement it is expected that the family members can visit their child without travelling very far," a senior para-military officer said.