LUCKNOW, April 25 -- The passing-out parade of 986 women recruit constables at the Police Commissionerate Lucknow's Recruit Training Centre (RTC) on April 26 (Sunday) will highlight the significant increase in women's representation in the Uttar Pradesh Police in recent years.

Chief minister Yogi Adityanath will inspect the parade and take the salute at the Reserve Police Lines in Mahanagar. The event, scheduled to begin around 8 am, will be telecast live across all districts, PAC battalions, and police training institutions.

The ceremony comes amid a significant expansion in women's induction into the force. Officials noted that while only around 10,000 women were recruited into the Uttar Pradesh Police between 1947 and 2017, the numbe...