Women Personnel in Defence Forces
Presently,
women are recruited in Indian Army as Officers through Short Service
Commission (SSC) on all India merit basis along with men candidates.
Women Officers are inducted in Army Service Corps, Army Ordnance Corps,
Army Education Corps, Judge Advocate General Branch including Engineers,
Signals, Intelligence and Electrical & Mechanical Engineering
branches. In addition, they are also commissioned in Medical Branch
Army Medical Corps (AMC), Army Dental Corps (ADC) and Military Nursing
Service (MNS). Further, Women Officers are eligible for grant of
Permanent Commission in Judge Advocate General (JAG) Department and in
Army Education Corps (AEC) of Army.
The IAF has pioneered the entry of women as officers in flying and ground duty.
In
Indian Navy, women officers are inducted through Short Service
Commission, in Logistics, Law, Observers, Air Traffic Control (ATC),
Pilots (Maritime Reconnaissance Stream), Naval Armament Inspectorate
cadre (NAIC), Naval Architecture and Education Branch.
The
details of women officers in Army (excluding Medical, Dental &
Nursing Branch), in Indian Air Force (excluding Medical and Dental
Branch) and in Indian Navy recruited during the last three years,
Service-wise, are as under:-
Year
|
Army
|
Navy
|
Air Force
|
2014
|
104
|
57
|
155
|
2015
|
72
|
35
|
223
|
2016
|
69
|
43
|
108
|
The percentage of women officers in the three services of armed forces are as under:-
Percentage of women officers
| ||
Army
|
Navy
|
Air Force
|
3.64%
(as on 1.1.2017)
|
4.49%
(as on June 2017)
|
13%
(as on July 2017)
|
In
2011, the Government approved consideration of women Short Service
Commission Officers (SSCOs) for grant of permanent commission along with
men SSCOs in specific branches in the three services viz. Judge
Advocate General (JAG), and Army Education Corps (AEC) of the Army and
their corresponding branches in Navy and Air Force, Naval Constructor in
Navy and Accounts Branch in Air Force.
In March
2016, approval has been accorded for induction of women Short Service
Commission (SSC) officers as Pilots in Maritime Reconnaissance (MR)
stream and in the Naval Armament Inspectorate (NAI) cadre. The
inductions are planned commencing from mid 2017.
In
the Indian Air Force since 1993, women officers have been inducted in
all branches and stream as Short Service Commissioned Officers except in
the fighter stream. However, IAF has revised Short Service Commission
scheme to induct women into the fighter stream on experimental basis for
five years. The first batch of three women officers was commissioned
in the fighter stream on June 18, 2016.
In
addition, steps like increasing tenure of women officers and improving
promotional prospects in Army have been taken to increase participation
of women in the Army.
This information was given
by Minister of state for Defence Dr. Subhash Bhamre in a written reply
to Shri Harish Chandra alias Harish Dwivedi in Lok Sabha today.
Source : PIB
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