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    The Supreme Court ruled that women officers serving in the Indian Army under Short Service Commissions must be considered for Permanent Commissions, ending the longstanding practice of restricting women to temporary roles. This landmark judgment extends Permanent Commission eligibility and command opportunities to women in 10 non-combat Army branches, bringing equal treatment regardless of gender. However, combat roles in the Infantry, Armored, and Mechanized Infantry units remain closed to women. The ruling represents significant progress against long-held stereotypes used by the government to argue women were unsuitable for senior military positions.

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    The Supreme Court ruled that women officers serving in the Indian Army under Short Service Commissions must be considered for Permanent Commissions, ending the longstanding practice of restricting women to temporary roles. This landmark judgment extends Permanent Commission eligibility and command opportunities to women in 10 non-combat Army branches, bringing equal treatment regardless of gender. However, combat roles in the Infantry, Armored, and Mechanized Infantry units remain closed to women. The ruling represents significant progress against long-held stereotypes used by the government to argue women were unsuitable for senior military positions.

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    The Supreme Court ruled that women officers serving in the Indian Army under Short Service Commissions must be considered for Permanent Commissions, ending the longstanding practice of restricting women to temporary roles. This landmark judgment extends Permanent Commission eligibility and command opportunities to women in 10 non-combat Army branches, bringing equal treatment regardless of gender. However, combat roles in the Infantry, Armored, and Mechanized Infantry units remain closed to women. The ruling represents significant progress against long-held stereotypes used by the government to argue women were unsuitable for senior military positions.

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    Dr.

    Mahipal Singh Rathore


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    mahipalrathore

    rathore.mahipal

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    The News
    On 17th February 2020, the Supreme Court directed that
    women officers of the Indian Army, serving under Short
    Service Commission, be considered for grant of Permanent
    Commission.

    This order has brought women officers in 10 streams of the


    Army at par with their male counterparts in all respects,
    setting aside longstanding objections of the government.
    Permanent Commission (PC) -
    A Permanent Commission means a career in the Army until one
    retires.

    Short Service Commission (SSC) -


    In SSC, officers are inducted under the 10+4 scheme.
    PC is granted to SSC officers subject to service requirement and
    availability of vacancies.
     Women can only join the armed forced through SSC; they are
    not offered ab initio permanent commission in any of the
    forces.

     While male SSC officers could opt for permanent commission


    at the end of 10 years of service, this option was not
    available to women officers.

     They were, thus, kept out of any command appointment.


    17 Years long court battle
    2003 - A case was first filed in the Delhi High Court by women
    officers seeking Permanent commission

    2010 - High court rules in their favour.

    But the order was never implemented, and was challenged in


    the Supreme Court by the government.
    Government stance
    • The Union government proposed in February 2019 (while the
    case was pending in SC) that permanent commission should be
    given to SSC-recruited women officers with less than 14 years of
    service.

    • But only in “staff appointments” and not in command roles in


    specific non-combat streams.
    Supreme court Judgement
    1. The SC has done away with all discrimination on the basis
    of years of service for grant of PC in 10 streams of combat
    support arms and services, bringing them on a par with
    male officers.

    2. It has also removed the restriction of women officers only


    being allowed to serve in staff appointments, which is the
    most significant and far-reaching aspect of the judgment.
    This case was only about permanent commission and
    command roles in non-combat streams of the army.
    Women officers are still not allowed to serve in combat units
    like the Infantry, the Armoured corps and Mechanised
    infantry .
    The permanent commission with consequential seniority and pensionary
    benefits will be restricted to the Army’s non-combat units, including
    • Regiment of Artillery,
    • Corps of Engineers,
    • Corps of Signals,
    • Army Service Corps,
    • Army Ordinance Corps,
    • Corps of Electrical Engineers,
    • Corps of Mechanical Engineers
    • AEC
    • Intelligence Corps
    • JAG (legal department)
    • In a judgment hailed for creating a new equality paradigm in
    the armed forces, Supreme court, upholding a 2010 Delhi high
    court verdict, ruled that women officers who joined the Indian
    Army through Short Service Commission (SSC) are entitled to
    permanent commission (PC).
    • Calling for a change of mindset on the part of the government
    to put an end to gender bias in the armed forces, the apex
    court directed that within three months, all serving Short
    Service Commission(SSC) women officers will have to be
    considered for Permanent Commission (PC) irrespective of
    their tenure in service.
    Why was Govt against PC for women

    In the affidavit filed by the central government in May 4, 2018,


    it had submitted that restrictions on the employability of
    women in the Army are “inescapable due to the peculiar
    operational compulsions of the Army”.
    The Centre’s contentions were largely surrounding three points
    1. The technical issue of terms of tenure under SSC
    2. That male soldiers are not “mentally schooled” to accept
    women in command roles
    3. Women are not fit for command roles, which might involve
    combat, because of their “physiological differences” with
    men.
    The court rejected that argument that it would be a “greater
    challenge” for women officers to meet the hazards of service
    “owing to their prolonged absence during pregnancy,
    motherhood and domestic obligations towards their children
    and families”.

    Such arguments, the court said, are founded on a strong


    stereotype which assumes that domestic obligations rest
    solely on women.
    Similar cases concerning Indian Navy and Indian Air Force are
    pending before the Supreme Court.

    The judgment will immediately impact 322 women officers in


    the army.
    Women in Army
     The induction of women officers in the Army started in 1992.
     They were commissioned for a period of five years in certain
    chosen streams such as Army Education Corps, Corps of
    Signals, Intelligence Corps, and Corps of Engineers.
     Recruits under the Women Special Entry Scheme (WSES) had
    a shorter pre-commission training period than their male
    counterparts who were commissioned under the Short
    Service Commission (SSC) scheme.
     In 2006, the WSES scheme was replaced with the SSC scheme,
    which was extended to women officers.
     They were commissioned for a period of 10 years, extendable
    up to 14 years.
     Serving WSES officers were given the option to move to the
    new SSC scheme, or to continue under the erstwhile WSES.
     They were to be however, restricted to roles in streams
    specified earlier — which excluded combat arms such as
    infantry and armoured corps.
    PC was already available(2008 onwards) to SSC-recruited
    women officers in the Judge Advocate General (JAG) and
    Army Education Corps (AEC)
    Women in the forces
    As of Jan 2019, women comprised

     3.89 % of Army

     6.7 % of Navy

     13.28 % of Air Force


    Total 65,000-strong officer cadre of the 15-lakh strong armed
    forces.
    Though women officers have been inducted into the armed forces
    since the early 1990s, they number just
    1. 1,653 in the Army
    2. 490 in the Navy
    3. 1,905 in IAF

    *These figures do not include women officers in the medical, dental and
    nursing streams, who are inducted through the PC route.
    THANK YOU
    Dr. Mahipal Singh Rathore

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