GUWAHATI: In a welcome damage from custom, the Sainik School Chhingchhip in Mizoram changed into the first within the country to confess girls into what had, till now, been a male bastion.
Sainik Schools had been established as preparatory colleges for access into the National Defence Academy at Khadakwasla, Pune and the Indian Naval Academy. Both establishments have a history of now not admitting ladies. The precedent set by way of the Sainik School in Mizoram, the youngest of the rustic's 26 such colleges, could pave the way in which for a change in the rest of the establishments as smartly.
"History was created on June 4, when six girls joined the Sainik School Chhingchhip, Mizoram in Class VI along with 54 boys. It has now become the first school under the aegis of the Sainik School Society to induct girl cadets," defence public members of the family officer Colonel C Konwer said.
He added, "On this history-making occasion, school principal Lt Col Inderjeet Singh welcomed the 2018-19 batch of 60 cadets, including six girls, who were hand-picked after a rigorous selection process."
While the UP Sainik School enrolled girls for the first time in April this yr, it is a state-funded faculty. It is not the same as different Sainik Schools, which are managed by way of the Sainik Schools Society - which function at once under the defence ministry and whose chairperson is the defence minister.
A brainchild of the former defence minister VK Menon, the first Sainik School was once set up in 1961 at Satara in Maharashtra. Four extra such colleges had been established later in the same yr - Kunjpura (Haryana), Kapurthala (Punjab), Balachadi (Gujarat) and Chittorgarh (Rajasthan). The idea at the back of putting in place those establishments was once to do away with the regional imbalance within the officer cadre of defence products and services while bringing public faculty training inside achieve of the typical man.
Sainik Schools had been established as preparatory colleges for access into the National Defence Academy at Khadakwasla, Pune and the Indian Naval Academy. Both establishments have a history of now not admitting ladies. The precedent set by way of the Sainik School in Mizoram, the youngest of the rustic's 26 such colleges, could pave the way in which for a change in the rest of the establishments as smartly.
"History was created on June 4, when six girls joined the Sainik School Chhingchhip, Mizoram in Class VI along with 54 boys. It has now become the first school under the aegis of the Sainik School Society to induct girl cadets," defence public members of the family officer Colonel C Konwer said.
He added, "On this history-making occasion, school principal Lt Col Inderjeet Singh welcomed the 2018-19 batch of 60 cadets, including six girls, who were hand-picked after a rigorous selection process."
While the UP Sainik School enrolled girls for the first time in April this yr, it is a state-funded faculty. It is not the same as different Sainik Schools, which are managed by way of the Sainik Schools Society - which function at once under the defence ministry and whose chairperson is the defence minister.
A brainchild of the former defence minister VK Menon, the first Sainik School was once set up in 1961 at Satara in Maharashtra. Four extra such colleges had been established later in the same yr - Kunjpura (Haryana), Kapurthala (Punjab), Balachadi (Gujarat) and Chittorgarh (Rajasthan). The idea at the back of putting in place those establishments was once to do away with the regional imbalance within the officer cadre of defence products and services while bringing public faculty training inside achieve of the typical man.
Mizoram Sainik School breaks with tradition, admits girl students
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