100 BSF women constables deployed in Northeast

From ZeeNews March 9, 2014 Shillong: The Border Security Forces has deployed one hundred women constables in the north eastern region along the border with Bangladesh to improve inspection, a BSF official said on Sunday. "We have deployment of over 100 women constables of the BSF in the entire region," Sudhir Kumar Srivastava, IG, BSF Assam Frontier, said at the end of the 3-day bi-annual Inspector General level meeting of border management and coordination here. Altogether 70 women constables had been posted at the headquarters of Assam Frontier in Guwahati and 30 in Tripura while 11 women reached here for their posting in Meghalaya Frontier, he said. BSF men constables had problems in frisking women offenders and deployment of women constables would solve the problem, he said. PTI http://zeenews.india.com/news/north-east/100-bsf-women-constables-deployed-in-northeast_916841.html