Gorakhpur’s women recruits expose a broken system
The opportunity that the women police recruits in Uttar Pradesh has provided for systemic improvements should be embraced with optimism.
Updated At : 05:51 AM Jul 28, 2025 IST
Poor facilities: Women police recruits protesting at a training centre in Gorakhpur, UP. PTI
THE protest by nearly 600 women recruits of the UP Police at PAC, Police Training Centre, Gorakhpur, raises questions about the state of training infrastructure in Uttar Pradesh. The recruits, from diverse backgrounds, including some disadvantaged ones, joined the training with lofty ideals of donning the uniform to take on crime and criminals in the state. Unfortunately, they had such an unpalatable first experience that they had to take the extreme step of resorting to a protest, something unheard of in uniformed services, particularly in a training institution.
