TIME EXTENDED BY SUPREME COURT TO IMPLEMENT GRANT OF PERMANENT COMMISSION AND COMMAND POSTS FOR WOMEN OFFICERS IN THE ARMY
The Supreme Court has granted one months’ time to implement the grant of Permanent Commission and Command Posts for eligible women officers in the Indian Army. The 17th of February judgment directed that Permanent Commission should be granted to women in the Army, regardless of their service, in all the ten streams where the Union Government had already taken a decision to grant Short Service Commission to women. The Court had further held that absolute exclusion of women from command assignments is against Article 14 of the Constitution of India.