Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar todaysaid that the state government had recruited 1,000 woman police employees and would shortly recruit 1,000 more.
Heurged the people to encourage their daughters to join the police force.
Khattar was addressing a gathering of women from the Naraingarh Assembly constituency in Ambala district at his residence here.
They women had come to express their gratitude for sanctioning a women's police station in the Naraingarh sub- division and a government girls college at the Badagarh village, an official release said.
Reiterating the comitment of the state government towards women's safety and education, Khattar said that a number of steps have been taken in this direction.
Women's colleges are being established at a distance of every 20 km to provide the facility of higher education to girls in the state, he said.
"Several steps have been taken to ensure the safety of women and girls. Women's police stations have already been opened in every district and now the government has sanctioned such police stations in eight sub-divisions, including Naraingarh," he added.
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