Women SSC officers were till now allowed Permanent Commission only in the Judge and Advocate General (JAG) and Army Educational Corps (AEC) branches.

The Government Sanction Letter, paving the way for women officers shouldering larger roles in the organisation, specifies grant of PC to SSC women officers in eight additional streams of the Army: Army Air Defence (AAD), Signals, Engineers, Army Aviation, Electronics and Mechanical Engineers (EME), Army Service Corps (ASC), Army Ordnance Corps (AOC) and Intelligence Corps.

The Army Headquarters has set in motion a series of preparatory actions for the conduct of the Permanent Commission Selection Board for Women Officers. The Selection Board will be set up as soon as all SSC women officers exercise their option and complete the requisite documentation.

The directive will apply to those who had joined as SSC officers, but were not given an option during their service tenure to opt for Permanent Commission.

Their male counterparts from same batches and streams went on to become PC officers. The SSC officers – men or women – join for a period of 10 or 14 years following which an option is given for becoming Permanent Commission officers.

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The Centre has granted permanent commission to women officers, but left out the eight women who had first approached the court.

“We can pass an order but we are giving you an opportunity to take credit for it,” a bench led by Justice DY Chandrachud told the counsel for the Centre. The government had told the court that a decision had been taken to grant permanent commission to women officers in the Indian Army’s 10 branches.

The court was told that the permanent commission scheme would begin only from April 2020. Aishwarya Bhatti, the lawyer representing the eight woman officers, told the court that this meant that the decision would not be retrospective, covering women who fought gender discrimination in the Army.

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