{"id":315778,"date":"2019-10-19T04:15:15","date_gmt":"2019-10-19T04:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=315778"},"modified":"2019-10-19T04:15:15","modified_gmt":"2019-10-19T04:15:15","slug":"defence-minister-rajnath-singh-gives-nod-for-girls-to-enter-sainik-schools-from-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/defence-minister-rajnath-singh-gives-nod-for-girls-to-enter-sainik-schools-from-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Defence Minister Rajnath Singh gives nod for girls to enter Sainik schools from 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-308121 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/rajnath.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"621\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rajnath.jpg 621w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/rajnath-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 621px) 100vw, 621px\" \/>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a proposal for admission of girl children in Sainik schools w.e.f. academic session 2021-22 in a phased manner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision was taken following the success of the pilot project started by the Ministry of Defence for admission of girl children in Sainik School Chhingchhip in Mizoram two years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Defence Minister has directed concerned authorities to ensure availability of necessary infrastructure and sufficient female staff in Sainik schools for smooth implementation of the directive, the release said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The decision is in line with the objective of the Government towards greater inclusiveness, gender equality, enabling greater participation of women in Armed Forces and strengthening the motto of \u2018Beti Bachao Beti Padhao\u2019, propagated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, it said.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has approved a proposal for admission of girl children in Sainik schools w.e.f. academic session 2021-22 in a phased manner. The decision was taken following the success of the pilot project started by the Ministry of Defence for admission of girl children in Sainik School Chhingchhip in Mizoram two years ago. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":308121,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[2597],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315779,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315778\/revisions\/315779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}