Women's Representation In Police Force

Share of women in India's police force: 11.7%,  as of January 2022

LONG ROAD AHEAD

At its current pace, India will take at least 24 years to have 33% women personnel in police.

The lowest Andhra Pradesh will take just 3 years.

States/UTs that would take 100 or more years to have at least 33% women in police:

Tripura

Puducherry

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Jharkhand

Dadra and Nagar Haveli & Daman and Diu

554 years

318 years

226 years

206 years

193 years

Rajasthan

Assam

103 years

101 years

States/UTs that would take 50-99 years to have at least 33% women in police:

Mizoram

Kerala

Meghalaya

Odisha

Sikkim

88 years

87 years

84 years

78 years

56 years

Chhattisgarh

Himachal Pradesh

54 years

53 years

West Bengal

50 years

States/UTs that would take 10-49 years to have at least 33% women in police:

Lakshadweep

Madhya Pradesh

Goa

Karnataka

Nagaland

47 years

43 years

39 years

38 years

32 years

Arunachal Pradesh

Arunachal Pradesh

29 years

27 years

Punjab

25 years

Delhi

Telangana

Uttarakhand

Manipur

Chandigarh

24 years

20 years

20 years

17 years

16 years

Maharashtra

Tamil Nadu

12 years

11 years

Gujarat

Uttar Pradesh

Bihar

Andhra Pradesh

9 years

6 years

5 years

3 years

States/UTs that would take less than 10 years to have at least 33% women in police: