Sahayak or bat man system long abolished by P.A and now it is time for India to abolish these colonial rules instead they should hire civilians to do these jobs.
Why ?? Its going Smooth If you talking about harassment Its Happens in very army in world weather you Subordinate or Officer
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/wo...sment-40-per-cent-of-women-experience-it.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...for-harassing-junior/articleshow/28118500.cms
Except few countries Most of the Armed forces still practice this.
France
French orderly,
Napoleonic Wars.
In the
French Army the term for batman was
ordonnance. Batmen were officially abolished after
World War II. However, in the 1960s there were still batmen in the French Army.
German
In the
German Army the batman was known as
Ordonnanz ("orderly") from the French "ordonnance", or colloquially as
Putzer ("cleaner") or as
Bursche ("boy" or "valet").
The main character
Švejk of the antimilitarist, satirical novel
The Good Soldier Švejk by the Czech author
Jaroslav Hašek is the most famous portrayal of a batman drafted into the
Austro-Hungarian Army during the
First World War. (The 1967 German song "
Ich war der Putzer vom Kaiser" is actually based on the British instrumental hit "
I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman" of the same year, with original German lyrics.)
[2][3]
India
The old British term "orderly" continued into the post-independence
Indian Army. It has now, however, been replaced with the
Hindi word
sahayak, which translates as "assistant" or "helper". There have been suggestions to do away with the practice, as the Indian Navy and Indian Air Force already have.
Italy
In the
Italian Army the term for batman was
attendente, from the Italian verb
attendere (same meaning of the English verb
to attend).
Attendenti were eventually abolished in 1971.
Pakistan
The term "batman" in the
Pakistan Army dates from the period of the
British Indian Army. In the modern Pakistan Army, civilian personal are employed in this role and are designated as NCB (Non-Combatant Bearer). The term implies that the present-day batman is not a soldier or part of the fighting cadre of the army, and works only as a personal servant to each officer.
The employment of NCBs in the
Pakistan Air Force and the
Pakistan Navy is not officially recognized. However both these services pay their officers an extra allowance comparable to the average pay of a household servant.
Russia and the Soviet Union
The
Imperial Russian Army used the term
denshchik (
Russian: Денщик) for a batman. In the Russian Empire higher-ranking
cavalry officers often chose
Cossacks for these roles as they could be reasonably depended on to survive
combat, and were also known for resourcefulness on
campaign. However, they were hired help, and had to be provided with a horse also. The lower-ranking officers from serf-owning families brought a servant from home they were familiar with, particularly the
infantry and
artillery officers that did not require additional protection in combat, and tended to leave the servants with the unit
baggage train. After the abolition of
serfdom in the Russian Empire (1861), many officers went on campaign without servants.
Although the positions were abolished in the post-revolutionary Soviet Union, the recognition that higher-ranking officers required assistance soon fostered an unofficial reintroduction of the role through secondment of an NCO to the officer's staff, usually also as the driver, which also at one stage became their unofficial role and title as many officers often "lived" out of their vehicles. The term was borrowed from the French, but adopted to Russian pronunciation as
ordinarets (
Russian: Ординарец).
Several
ordirnartsy of the
marshals and generals commanding fronts and armies during the
Second World War wrote memoirs about their service. For example,
Zhukov's "driver" was a semi-professional racing car driver Aleksandr Nikolaevich Buchin who met Zhukov by accident literally on the first day of the war when Zhukov's previous elderly driver failed to get the vehicle he was in out of the rut. Buchin drove Zhukov throughout the war and although he began the war as a private, he ended the war with the rank of captain. Buchin wrote his memoirs called
One hundred and seventy thousand kilometres with Zhukov, at the suggestion of the marshal in the 1970s.
Turkey
The term "emir eri" was used for a soldier that attends an officer. The practice was abolished in 1950.
United Kingdom[edit]
The official term used by the
British Army in the First World War was "soldier-servant". Every officer was assigned a servant, usually chosen by the officer from among his men. The term
batman replaced this in the inter-war years. By the Second World War, only senior officers of the army and
Royal Air Force were officially assigned batmen, with junior officers usually sharing the services of one batman between several officers. Batwomen also served in the women's services.
Batman was usually seen as a desirable position. The soldier was exempted from more onerous duties and often got better rations and other favours from his officer. Senior officers' batmen usually received fast promotion to
lance-corporal, with many becoming
corporals and even
sergeants. The position was generally phased out after the war. Officers of the
Household Division however still have orderlies, because of the high proportion of ceremonial duties required of them.[
citation needed]
In the
Royal Navy stewards performed many of the duties of batmen in the other services. Aboard ship, only
captains and
admirals were assigned personal stewards, with the other officers being served by a pool of officers' stewards. Most vessels carried at least two stewards, with larger vessels carrying considerably more.
The term "orderly" was often used instead of "batman" in the
colonial forces, especially in the
British Indian Army. The orderly was frequently a civilian instead of a soldier. However, from 1903 to 1939 four Indian officers from different regiments were appointed each year to serve as "King's (or Queen's) Indian Orderly Officers" in attendance on the monarch in London. While performing some routine orderly functions the main role of these officers was to represent the Indian Army in
full dress uniform at ceremonial functions in front of the British public who might otherwise seldom be made aware of its existence.
In the
British Armed Forces, the term "batman" or "batwoman" was formerly also applied to a civilian who cleaned officers' messes or married quarters. In the Royal Air Force, free married quarters cleaning services were phased out for all officers except
squadron leaders or above in command appointments as of 1 April 1972.
One famous example of officer and batman during the Second World War was British actor
David Niven and fellow actor
Peter Ustinov.
[6] Niven and Ustinov were working on the film
The Way Ahead, as actor and writer respectively, but the difference in their ranks—Niven was a
Lieutenant-Colonel and Ustinov a private—made their association militarily impossible; to solve the problem, Ustinov was appointed as Niven's batman.
United States
In the
United States Army the term "dog robber" (from the peacetime occupation of the title character of
The Good Soldier Švejk, a fictional batman) was unofficially used, although that could also be applied to a junior officer who acted as a
gofer to somebody with high rank. The position was made famous by
James Garner in the film
The Americanization of Emily.
Aides are junior commissioned officers who are available to support some of the needs of general officers who serve in command positions in the rank of
brigadier general and above, and those of
Flag Officers in the grade of Rear Admiral (lower half) and above in the Navy and Coast Guard. These aides "perform tasks and details that, if performed by general or flag officers, would be at the expense of the officer’s primary military and official duties." However, their assistance is restricted to only those tasks which are directly related to that officer aide's official duties.
As for the use of enlisted personnel in support of General Officers and Flag Officers, according to the Department of Defense policy, "No officer may use an enlisted member as a servant for duties that contribute only to the officer's personal benefit and that have no reasonable connection with the officer's official responsibilities.
