Overview
- Additional 2025–26 vacancies for Infantry TA Home & Hearth battalions include section-strength positions earmarked for women, The Indian Express reported.
- Army sources say recruitment will begin in a few units with small intakes as a pilot, with any expansion contingent on evaluation of the scheme.
- A section typically comprises about 10 soldiers, meaning selected battalions will field a small cohort of women within formations of roughly 750–1,000 personnel.
- Current policy keeps women out of core combat arms such as infantry and armoured corps, with women officers in several support branches and soldier entry limited to the Corps of Military Police.
- The Territorial Army counts about 50,000 personnel across around 65 units, including 11 Home & Hearth battalions raised for Jammu & Kashmir and the Northeast that assist with counter-insurgency support, intelligence tasks and disaster response.