A women's battalion of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) will be deployed in a group centre at Jhapha in Muzaffarpur to curb smuggling and Maoist movement along the India-Nepal border.
CRPF director-general Durga Prasad who was here on Monday, said the CRPF is contemplating to depute a women battalion (Delta company) by the end of 2017. There will be more than 590 women personnel in a battalion of CRPF.
The Delta company of CRPF has expertise in guerrilla warfare to tackle the Naxalite menace. The company is helpful too in controlling infiltration of woman in smuggling, said Durga. Women battalions will be deputed along the border for restricting flow of narcotics and others.
Personnel belonging to the Delta company of the women battalion of CRPF are being imparted necessary guerrilla training and skills to counter the menace of women smugglers.
Several districts of north Bihar share boundary with Nepal and the menace of smuggling has emerged as a big threat, Durga said.
Durga, who inspected a group centre, said the CRPF has already deployed women battalions in Chhattisgarh, Bengal and Jharkhand. Commenting on the scourge of rebels, Durga said the incidents of rebel activities have lessened largely owing to strict vigilance being carried out by the CRPF, Sashastra Seema Bal and district police in the Maoist-infested districts of south and north Bihar.
Women activists of rebel outfits had disclosed their operation strategies and designs of smuggling during interrogation.
The CRPF is now imparting innovative skills of warfare and strengthening the women force along the border, added Durga.
The inspector-general of CRPF, Bihar region, Arun Kumar, said youths residing in the periphery of rebel-hit villages are often lured by Maoists.
"The CRPF has shortlisted hundreds of youths belonging to villages and hamlets along bordering areas of Nepal for setting up units of poultry farming and other means of livelihood. They will be given financial assistance from central schemes to help them eke out a living," he said.
