{"id":67568,"date":"2022-03-15T21:26:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T15:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/?p=67568"},"modified":"2022-04-01T21:30:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:00:58","slug":"ficci-ladies-business-women-demand-major-role-in-defense-procurement-and-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/ficci-ladies-business-women-demand-major-role-in-defense-procurement-and-research\/","title":{"rendered":"FICCI LADIES BUSINESS WOMEN  DEMAND MAJOR ROLE IN DEFENSE PROCUREMENT AND RESEARCH<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Government has taken a number of steps to strengthen the role of women in armed forces. It has now moved to inducting women officers in most of the branches of the Army. Women are now being accepted for permanent commission and shall be commanding army units and battalions in near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cThe government has taken a number of steps to strengthen the role of women within the security setup in general and the armed forces in particular. As part of the Government endeavor to bring gender parity, in the coming years, the armed forces will see larger participation of women.\u201d Said Mr Rajnath Singh , Union Minister of Defence while speaking at an event \u201cAzadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav\u201d, celebrating women organised by FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) Women business wing  of FICCI here today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cWomen are now being accepted for permanent commission and shall be commanding army units and battalions in near future. In the recently held National Defense Academy (NDA) more than Two lakh women took the entrance exam in the country , such is the enthusiasm t serve the forces  \u201d, Said Mr Rajnath Singh<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWomen in the country   have proven themselves in every walk of life. Many barriers have been broken and many more imagined barriers should break in the years to come.\u201d He  said .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cFICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) welcomes recent steps taken by government to promote the participation of private sector in indigenous defence productions and 100 per cent FDI along with induction of  first female fighters in Indian Airforce paving the way for women to be given more combat roles moving towards gender parity in World\u2019s biggest force\u201d said Ms Ujjwala Singhania , President, FICCI Ladies Organisation (FLO) while speaking on the occasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c Women entrepreneurs and corporate houses  can play a greater role in defence production, research and support and take advantage of the new government policy of greater private participation”,she added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEmpowering of women entrepreneurs and professionals especially in the defense sector is truly essential for Atma Nirbhar Bharat .<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 A homage to Bharat Ratna Late Lata Mangeshkar was lso paid during the event and Usha Mangeshkar sister of Lata Mangeshkar received the honour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those present on the occasion included Ms Jyanti Dalmia. President Elect, FLO  and  Usha Poonawala,, chairperson ,FICCI FLO , Oune Chapter .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Government has taken a number of steps to strengthen the role of women in armed forces. It has now moved to inducting women officers in most of the branches of the Army. Women are now being accepted for permanent commission and shall be commanding army units and battalions in near future. \u201cThe government has taken a number of steps to strengthen the role of women within the security setup in general and the armed forces in particular. As part of the Government endeavor to bring gender parity, in the coming years, the armed forces will see larger participation of women.\u201d Said Mr Rajnath Singh , <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1875,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67571,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67568\/revisions\/67571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwarkaparichay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}