Country’s first body protector for women personnel in combat 23/07/2019 – Posted in: Daily News – Tags:

PROTECTION GEARS FOR FEMALE PERSONNEL

 

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Topics covered: Protection gears for female personnel in combat – advantages & features

 

News Flash

Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences, a unit of the DRDO, has developed full body protectors for CRPF’s female personnel.

 

Significance & Features

  • The gear covers all soft parts of the human body such as rib-cage, back of the arm, inner calf, thigh and groin area of females deployed in riot control.
  • Scientist design the gears which ensure the protection of vital organs of women.
  • The gear is anti-stab, anti-acid.
  • It will increase the efficiency of women as the protectors being used earlier were designed for men and the ease of operation was lacking.
  • It will be available in all sizes and the material used is the same as that used in male body protectors.
  • The gears will be available for other central armed police forces and State police forces also.
  • It has also paved the path for further research and development in the field of women-specific body armours and vests.
  • It will ensure better mobility.
  • Around 8,000 women deployed in the anti-riot Rapid Action Force (RAF) will get the body protectors.
  • It will weight around 6 kg.

 

Background

The idea for gender-specific protective gears was first mooted at the National Conference for Women in 2016.

 

Defence Institute of Physiology and Allied Sciences (DIPAS)

  • DIPAS was officially established on 20th September 1962.
  • In India, research in military physiology was initiated in the year 1950 through a small group of scientists and medical physiologists within the realm of Defence Science Laboratory, Delhi.
  • In 1962, with the thrust area identification of high altitude physiology, nutrition and biochemistry of human in severe stress environment and also with the urgent need felt for ergonomic assessment of workstations and man-machine interface, a full-fledged laboratory was established.

 

Source: The Hindu

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