New Delhi: A new chapter is going to be added to the history of the Indian Navy towards gender equality. Sub Lt. Kumudini Tyagi and Sub Lt. Reti Singh will be the first women officers to be deployed on a Navy warship as part of the ship's crew. Though there are many women officers in the Indian Navy, they were not deployed on warships so far for many reasons.

This includes lack of privacy in crew quarters and lack of gender-segreed bathrooms. But now it's going to change. The two women officers are training to operate multi-role helicopters. It is expected that the two officers will eventually fly on the Navy's new MH-60R helicopter, which has been ordered.

In 2018, the then Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had approved the acquisition of helicopters in an estimated $2.6 billion deal. The MH-60R is counted among the most high-tech multi-role helicopters of its category in the world. It has been developed to detect enemy ships and submarines.

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