Over two lakh young girls have applied online for just 100 vacancies for women jawans in the Corps of Military Police (CMP). The Army is concurrently also planning to raise a "Mahila Provost Unit" in the Territorial Army for the first time. The unit will have two officers, three junior commissioned officers and 40 soldiers. The armed forces till now have inducted women only as officers, and kept them firmly away from serving on board warships and submarines as well as joining "fighting arms" in the Army like infantry, armoured corps and artillery.