Overview
- The National Security Guard has started the inaugural Mahila Commando Conversion Course at its Manesar training academy for women drawn from state police forces and central armed police forces.
- The course runs for 12 weeks and focuses on intense physical conditioning, weapons handling and marksmanship, tactical entry and intervention, and hostage‑rescue techniques.
- Trainees are expected to return to their parent organisations after completion so the NSG’s tactics and standards can be embedded across other security forces.
- NSG framed the programme as a step to expand the pool of operationally ready women commandos and to professionalise joint responses between forces.
- The initiative builds on wider efforts to open specialised special‑operations roles to women and could raise institutional counter‑terrorism readiness by spreading NSG training practices nationwide.