The Ministry of Defence<\/strong> has informed the Supreme Court that it proposes to have the \u2018mechanism\u2019 to induct women cadets into the National Defence Academy (NDA)<\/strong> for entry into the armed forces to be ready in May 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n In 2020, the Supreme court had asked the government to abide by its own policy and grant Permanent Commission to women<\/strong> in Short Service Commission (SSC)<\/strong>. The court had also directed the government to give women command postings in all services other than combat.<\/span><\/p>\n Similarly, in the recent judgement, the <\/span>SC allowed women to sit for National Defence Academy (NDA) exam<\/b> as the current policy is based on \u201cgender discrimination\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n The government has informed the Supreme Court that the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) would include women in its NDA exam notification,<\/strong> expected to be published in May 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n This is because <\/span>preparations are required for this such as what medical standards that candidates have to meet, aspects for training among others to ensure smooth induction and training of women candidates. There is also the need to upgrade infrastructure depending on the intake strength of the women candidates.<\/span><\/p>\n The Supreme Court made it clear that the NDA exam has to allot seats to women this year, even though the number is small. <\/strong>The SC denotes that the induction of female candidates<\/strong> into the National Defence Academy (NDA) could not be postponed<\/strong> till next year.<\/p>\n The bench said it cannot vacate its order<\/strong> for allowing female aspirants to take the entrance examination scheduled for November after giving them hope<\/strong> to get into the NDA.<\/p>\n The bench left it for the Centre and the defence forces<\/strong> to take a call on how many women should be inducted<\/strong> in the first batch and whether they need an additional campus for separate training or could work along with their male counterparts.<\/p>\n Source: <\/b>This post is based on the following articles<\/span><\/p>\n What is the News? The Ministry of Defence has informed the Supreme Court that it proposes to have the \u2018mechanism\u2019 to induct women cadets into the National Defence Academy (NDA) for entry into the armed forces to be ready in May 2022. What is the issue? In 2020, the Supreme court had asked the government… Continue reading Process to induct women into NDA by May 2022: govt.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,7965,9],"tags":[8103,349,9210,8838],"class_list":["post-136076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-miscellaneous-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-gender-equality","tag-women-empowerment","tag-women-in-combat-role","tag-women-related-issues","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700787363,"cached_date":1704846659},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is the issue?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What was the Government’s response to this?<\/b><\/h5>\n
What was Supreme Court observation for government response?<\/strong><\/h5>\n
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