{"id":126425,"date":"2021-08-16T18:40:34","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T13:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=126425"},"modified":"2021-08-16T18:40:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T13:10:34","slug":"all-sainik-schools-will-now-admit-girls-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/all-sainik-schools-will-now-admit-girls-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"All Sainik schools will now admit girls: PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Source:<\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/education\/all-sainik-schools-now-open-to-admit-girls-pm-modi-7454613\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b> Indian Express<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Prime Minister has announced that all Sainik Schools in the country will now be open for girls also. T<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">he move to admit girls at Sainik Schools all across India comes as part of the government\u2019s push to increase the participation of women in the Indian armed forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>About Sainik Schools:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Sainik schools <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">are run by the Sainik Schools Society which is under the administrative control of the Ministry of Defence.<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li><b>Aim:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The aim of establishing Sainik schools was to prepare the students from an early age for their entry into the Indian armed forces.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Origin:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These schools are the brainchild of VK Krishna Menon who conceived this idea in 1961.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>Students are selected for Sainik Schools<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> through an annual entrance examination. They are inducted at the middle-school level.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><b>At present, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">33 Sainik schools are operating in the country. A provision for setting up 100 new Sainik Schools in partnership with NGOs, private schools and states was announced in the Union Budget for 2021-22.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a pilot project, Sainik School in Mizoram\u2019s Chhingchhip district began admitting girls from October 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Indian Express What is the News? The Prime Minister has announced that all Sainik Schools in the country will now be open for girls also. The move to admit girls at Sainik Schools all across India comes as part of the government\u2019s push to increase the participation of women in the Indian armed forces.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/all-sainik-schools-will-now-admit-girls-pm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All Sainik schools will now admit girls: PM<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704280767},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}