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Women form less than 12% of India’s police force: Centre | India News

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NEW DELHI: Women constitute 11.7% of India’s police forces, with Ladakh Police leading the states/UTs with a 28.3% women component even as J&K figures at the bottom of the table with just 3.3% women in its police organisation.
Sharing this information in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha on Wednesday, junior minister Nityanand Rai said according to data compiled by the Bureau for Police Research and Development, as on January 1, 2022, Andhra Pradesh had the second-highest percentage of women in its police force (21.7%), followed by Chandigarh (21.6%), Bihar (21.2%) and Tamil Nadu (19.1%). States with least share of women in police are J&K (3.2%), Tripura (5.3%) and Meghalaya (5.9%). Rai said the home ministry has been impressing upon the states and UTs to increase the representation of women in their police forces to 33%.


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