Two women hovercraft pilots are part of security cover that the Indian Coast Guard (ICG) has extended over the Gangasagar Mela site, where lakhs of devotees take a holy dip during Makar Sankranti, its DIG I J Singh said Monday.
Deputy commandants Sneha Kathayat and Shruti Mohan Jainpur, posted at Haldia port station, are from the first and second batches of women combat officers in the Coast Guard, Singh told newspersons here.
They are from an elite group of seven women hovercraft pilots who are working shoulder-to-shoulder with their male counterparts in the ICG, the DIG, chief staff officer (operations) of Coast Guard of North East region, said here.
Talking about her experience at the Coast Guard, Jainpur, whose father is a retired scientist of Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, said, "It is amazing, it is something that brings the best out of you."
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