TIWN May 19, 2018
AGARTALA, May 19 (TIWN): With a good news for women, Tripura Govt has introduced 10 % reservation system for women in Police Dept's recruitment.
Announcing the decision after the cabinet meeting on Saturday, Tripura Law Minister Ratan Lal Nath said, “We have taken a very important decision in favour of women which will also ensure the security of women”.
“From now each appointment in the police dept will felicitate 10 % reservation to women. We will think to increase the percentage more in coming days”, he said.
“Till day there was no reservation for women in police force, but the cabinet today has decided to appoint more numbers of women in police dept”, he added.
Revealing a shocking data, the Minister further said, “Now there are 26,000 police officials working under Tripura Govt but among them only 1,200 are women, which means only 4 %”.
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