New Delhi

The Indian Navy received over 80,000 applications from women candidates for its newly launched Senior Secondary Recruit and Matric recruit process.

The recruitment for the above-mentioned profiles will be done under the ‘Agnipath’ scheme.

In all, over 9.55 lakh applications were received by the Navy. Of these 82,000 are women aspirants.

Focusing on gender-neutrality in all its branches, the Indian Navy on June 20 announced its decision to recruit women sailors, through the newly-unveiled ‘Agnipath’ recruitment scheme.

While all the three services - Army, Air Force and Navy - have had women officers, this will be the first time that positions of Personnel Below Officers' Rank (PBOR) will be open to women.

Indian Navy has 30 women officers at present sailing on different Indian Navy ships.

Government announced the ‘Agnipath’ scheme on June 14.

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It provides for the recruitment of youths in the age bracket of 17-and-a-half-years to 21 for only four years with a provision to retain 25 per cent of them for 15 more years.