<span style="color: #222222;">Army has begun recruitment drive for the first batch of women soldiers, who will be inducted in non-combat roles. Rallies were held in various cantonments including those in Lucknow and Shillong yesterday.</span><br />'' <br />''<span style="color: #222222;">The army is conducting a selection test for the first batch of 100 women soldiers to be taken into the Corps of Military Police.</span><br />'' <span style="color: #222222;"><br />'' Army officials said women candidates from West Bengal, Odisha and Sikkim attended the rally in Shillong, which is being conducted over two days. </span><br />'' <br />'' <span style="color: #222222;">Candidates from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand attended the rally in Lucknow. At present, women in the Army work only in areas like engineering, medical, legal, signals and educational wings.</span><br />