MK i hope your car sale is going well as i doubt it...lolzzz.
i never wanted to counter you on this but then i thought let me attempt once.
How many times have you seen in a private firm that some executive officer is given the 'employee of the month' thingy?
There are different ways of motivating different people. Do you think your boss would be motivated and fee honored if he os given an extra pair of uniform (the company uniform)? i guess not, but a worker would sure be happy on this. Awards which are specifically for the Non-Officer Cadre has nothing to do with "being disgusting, rascist, discriminatory and prejudicial in their appearance" as a very different requirement has to be met to get them. Some light on those requirements:
1)If a soldier donate blood he has it written in his file and is adds to his chances to get that non-officer cadre (NOC) award.
Officers also donate blood, may be the % is more as compared to the soldiers, but it doesnt matter to them and it is not mentioned as an achievement in their dossiers. They have no bearing on SJ, NH or some other award. Being an officer i understand that donating blood would not kill me, but our many less educated and less aware brothers are so afraid of giving blood that they shiver. It is just because they dont know the facts, they think if they gonna donate blood they will get weak etc etc. i have seen such situations. i bet you had also. Go to a village and ask for blood, i doubt many would be happy. i have donated blood atleast twice, and it took me a complete day to get my grandfather convince that there is nothing wrong in it and it would not affect my health
. Officers dont require motivation in form of points earned through blood donations, i hope you dont want the next COAS who has risen up just by donating blood
2)If a soldier wants to get more educations he is always welcomed, but the problem is how many of us would love to get more educated once we have started doing a job? The minimum intake is a matriculate, we do have FA/FSc and graduates as soldiers. Now if a soldier who was matric when he joined wants to do FA he sure is praised and if he succeeds he is awarded points which would lead him to get a NOC Award.
Now you dont want that the Officers should also be dealt similarly. Many many many officers have done atleast Masters after joining the Army, there is a huge number who have done MBAs, we have Masters in Pol science, IR, Strat Studies, Metallurgy etc etc, there are many who have done their M Phil and PhDs. Officers dont require the 'point system' to get them motivated to acquire more education because they know themselves that more education would always be better for them. But then you dont want the next COAS to be all degrees
3)There are other things also but i would not talk about them.
So these NOC awards are there for a reason and are not discriminatory. If someone wants to understand. You missed that most of the awards are for everyone and there is no award specific to the Officer Cadre but one odd non commissioned awards made you think that the military has gone racist!