Guwahati News Desk: PM Narendra Modi, while delivering his speech at Red Fort, to mark the 75 years of independence on Sunday, announced that the all-boys Sainik schools across India will now admit girl students too.
Making the announcement as part of a pitch for gender equality, PM Modi said, “India’s daughters are eager to take their place.”
Modi added, “We must ensure that women have equal representation in every sphere. We need to ensure that from roads to the workplace, women have a feeling of security and respect.”
Stating that he would get messages from lakhs of daughters that they also wanted to study in Sainik schools, now the doors of Sainik schools should be opened for them too.
He also said the law, the state governments, the police, and the people, in general, would have to deliver on 100 per cent of their responsibilities for this initiative to work.
Infact, the Defence Minister, Rajnath Singh, during his customary address to the Armed Forces on 14th August said, “Ministry of Defence has decided to set up 100 new Sainik Schools to prepare future generations of versatile brave warriors…All these schools will be co-ed which also benefit the daughters of our country and increase their scholarly participation in the defence of the nation.”
As per the reports, the 33 existing Sainik Schools across the country are run by the Ministry of Defence as joint ventures with the respective State governments, which provide infrastructure in the form of land, educational and residential buildings, games fields and other equipment. They are meant to offer affordable public education and prepare students academically, physically and mentally for entry into the Defence forces.
