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Centre allows women to lead Army units
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 27
The Ministry of Defence has approved a proposal of the Army to allow women officers to command their units, a move that will bring them on a par with their male counterparts. The decision is applicable to women who will join as fresh recruits in 2015 and beyond.
The PTI adds that the government is planning to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court in this regard, highly placed Army sources said here.
The women officers would be given some relaxation in terms of physical standards but otherwise they would have to go through same regimen as male officers, the sources said.
Women, who are allowed permanent commission in select streams, had been demanding that they be allowed to command their units. The Army has chosen aviation as one of the streams in which women could be inducted and allowed to command.
In the IAF, women have been flying helicopters and transport planes. Engineers and signals branches are likely to be opened up for them soon.
Women will get to command units some 12 to 14 years down the line as this move will apply to those who join in 2015.
The women officers were first inducted in the early 1990s and have been now cleared to join the force as permanent commission officers in select branches such as legal, ordnance and supply. Women were allowed in medical arm of the forces even before the Independence.
Decision to benefit those joining in 2015
Women will get to lead units some 12 to 14 years down the line as this move will apply to those who join in 2015
They will be trained on the same pattern as their male counterparts
The women officers were first inducted in the early 1990s and have been now cleared to join the force as permanent commission officers in select branches such as legal, ordnance and supply.
Tribune News Service
New Delhi, July 27
The Ministry of Defence has approved a proposal of the Army to allow women officers to command their units, a move that will bring them on a par with their male counterparts. The decision is applicable to women who will join as fresh recruits in 2015 and beyond.
The PTI adds that the government is planning to file an affidavit in the Supreme Court in this regard, highly placed Army sources said here.
The women officers would be given some relaxation in terms of physical standards but otherwise they would have to go through same regimen as male officers, the sources said.
Women, who are allowed permanent commission in select streams, had been demanding that they be allowed to command their units. The Army has chosen aviation as one of the streams in which women could be inducted and allowed to command.
In the IAF, women have been flying helicopters and transport planes. Engineers and signals branches are likely to be opened up for them soon.
Women will get to command units some 12 to 14 years down the line as this move will apply to those who join in 2015.
The women officers were first inducted in the early 1990s and have been now cleared to join the force as permanent commission officers in select branches such as legal, ordnance and supply. Women were allowed in medical arm of the forces even before the Independence.
Decision to benefit those joining in 2015
