Centre to raise women's reservation in CRPF and CISF to 15%; BSF and other military forces to have 5%

New Delhi: Women’s representation in the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) and Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) will be made 15 per cent while it will be five per cent in the Border Security Force (BSF), Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) and Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), Union Minister of State for Home Affairs, Kiren Rijiju, said on Tuesday. [caption id=“attachment_4060423” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] File image of Union minister Kiren Rijiju. PIB[/caption] Rijiju said in the Lok Sabha that the Central government has been working for enhancement of women representation in the constabulary of paramilitary forces. “Our target is to increase the women representation to 15 per cent in the CRPF and CISF and 5 per cent in BSF, ITBP and SSB,” he said during the Question Hour. The minister said in compliance of recommendations given by Parliamentary Committee on Empowerment of Women in its sixth report, directions were issued to all paramilitary forces to bring the percentage of women in the forces to five per cent. On 5 January, 2016, it was decided to reserve 33 per cent posts at constable level for women in the CRPF and CISF to begin with and 14 to 15 per cent posts at constable level in border guarding forces like BSF, SSB and ITBP in a phased manner, he said.