SC grants permanent Service to Women in Navy
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Noting that women officers can sail with the same
efficiency as male counterparts, the Supreme Court today held officers of both
genders had to be treated equally in granting permanent commission in the Navy.
There couldn’t be gender discrimination in
granting permanent commission to Short Service Commission (SSC) women officers
citing psychological conditions, once the statutory bar for inducting women in
the Navy had been lifted, a Bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud said. The
order came a month after the top court ordered the government to consider
granting permanent commission (PC) to all women officers in the Army.
It today said once the statutory bar was lifted
and entry of women officers was allowed in the Navy, male and female officers
had to be treated equally in grant of permanent commission.
“All SSC officers in the education, law and
logistics cadres who are presently in service shall be considered for the grant
of PCs,” it said.
“SSC officers who are found suitable for the
grant of PC shall be entitled to all consequential benefits, including arrears
of pay, promotions and retirement benefits as and when due,” the Bench said.
“As a one-time measure, all SSC women officers
before the High Court and the AFT who are not granted PCs shall be deemed to
have completed substantive qualifying service for the grant of pension and
shall be entitled to all consequential benefits,” it said.
LEVEL PLAYING FIELD MUST
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excuses are no answer to constitutional entitlement to dignity which attaches
to every individual, irrespective of gender, to fair and equal conditions of
work and to a level playing field. Said By SC Bench.
2008 PROVISIONS QUASHED
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The Navy had allowed the permanent commission to women officers prospectively from
2008
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But the benefit was denied to serving officers. The SC has now quashed provisions
of 2008 norms
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