A number of female Army officers have reported instances of discrimination during their promotion from colonel to brigadier.
After learning that discussions are taking place to create a policy to address the issue of the officers’ career advancement, the Supreme Court on Monday ordered the Indian Army to complete the policy for considering the promotion of female officers from the rank of colonel to brigadier.
Chief Justice of India Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, Justices J. B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, and Attorney General R. Venkataramani and senior advocate R. Balasubramanian submitted that the Army is developing a policy for this purpose. The bench noted their submissions.
We will give you (the Army) time to bring the policy, CJI stated, posting the case for hearing in the first week of April. By March 31, 2024, we would anticipate that policy would be formulated.
A number of female Army officers have reported instances of discrimination during their promotion from colonel to brigadier. On February 17, 2020, the Supreme Court issued a historic decision ordering the permanent commissioning of women officers in the Army. The court rejected the Center’s argument that women’s “physiological limitations” are the result of “sex stereotypes” and referred to this as “gender discrimination against women.”
The highest court in the nation issued an order mandating that all women serving as Short Service Commission (SSC) officers be given consideration for permanent commission, regardless of whether they have accrued 14 or 20 years of service in the last three months.
Later, on March 17, 2020, the highest court rendered a significant decision that cleared the path for women to be appointed as permanent officers in the Indian Navy. It stated that equal opportunities for all players guarantee that women will have the chance to overcome “histories of discrimination.”
An officer must fulfil the “essential eligibility criteria” of at least two confidential reports (CR) in the Colonel Select rank, according to AG. He declared, “Any departure from these basic eligibility requirements will amount to compromising with the Indian Army’s operational requirements.”
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