Women In Combat
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Army has an ‘arbitrary’ attitude towards promoting women officers, says Supreme Court
The peitioners alleged that the board that empanels officers as colonel has not met for over an year to consider women but it was convened for men.
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‘Set your house in order,’ SC to Centre as women Army officers allege discrimination in promotions
The petitioners alleged that Army selection boards for promotions were refusing to consider their latest annual confidential reports.
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‘Set your house in order’: Supreme Court says Army not being fair to women officers
The petitioners, a group of 34 women officers, claimed that junior male officers were being considered over them for promotions.
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Supreme Court directs Air Force to grant pension to 32 women officers in landmark judgement
The officers had joined the Air Force as Short Service Commission officers, and were not considered for Permanent Commission.
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Induction of women fighter pilots in the air force to become permanent programme, says Rajnath Singh
In 2015, the government had announced that the Indian Air Force will induct women fighter pilots for five years on an “experimental basis”.
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Explain why only 19 women will be inducted in NDA, Supreme Court tells Centre
The court remarked that the intake of 19 women candidates was an ad hoc measure and could not be in place ‘for all times to come’.
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Pension benefits of five women officers should be reworked, SC tells Navy
The petitioners said that their pension was calculated on the basis of 14 years of service against a ruling by the court.
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Indian Army promotes five women to the rank of time scale colonels
Army officers are promoted as time scale colonels after completing 26 years in service.
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Implement order on permanent commission to women instead of seeking clarifications, SC tells Centre
The court criticised the ‘fashion of filing miscellaneous applications’ once a judgement is delivered.
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Indian Army grants Permanent Commission to 147 more women officers, total now 424
In March, the Supreme Court held that the evaluation criteria for granting permanent commission to women officers systematically discriminated against them.
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Army fitness criteria for women ‘arbitrary’, says SC, orders permanent commission for those excluded
Sixty women officers had moved the court alleging that they had been denied permanent commission on grounds of fitness, despite the SC’s order last year.
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‘You ask for fitness, but ignore years of service’: SC on permanent commission for women in Army
In a landmark verdict in February 2020, the Supreme Court had directed that women officers in the Army be granted a permanent commission.
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