{"id":89446,"date":"2020-03-20T14:56:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T09:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14494"},"modified":"2020-03-20T14:56:21","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T09:26:21","slug":"sc-rules-in-favour-of-permanent-commission-for-women-officers-in-navy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-rules-in-favour-of-permanent-commission-for-women-officers-in-navy-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SC rules in favour of permanent commission for women officers in Navy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News<\/strong>:The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled in favour of permanent commission to female officers in the Indian Navy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>SC Judgement:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ruled that women naval officers cannot be denied the right to equal opportunity and dignity entitled to under the Constitution on specious grounds such as physiology, motherhood and physical attributes.<\/li><li>Directed the Centre to grant permanent commission to SSC women officers within three months.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Implications:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>All serving women short service commission (SSC) officers in at least seven wings, including the executive, engineering, electrical, education, law and logistics, will be eligible to apply.&nbsp;<\/li><li>The grant of PCs will be subject to: (i) availability of vacancies in the stabilised cadre; (ii) Suitability of the candidate; and (iii) recommendation by the chief of Naval Staff.<\/li><li>Grants pension benefits to retired women officers who were not granted permanent commission<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Permanent Commission: <\/strong>It means an officer can serve the Navy till he\/she retires.<\/li><li><strong>Short service commission:<\/strong> One can serve for 10 years and can be extended by four more years, or a total of 14 years.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:The Supreme Court (SC) has ruled in favour of permanent commission to female officers in the Indian Navy. Facts: SC Judgement: Ruled that women naval officers cannot be denied the right to equal opportunity and dignity entitled to under the Constitution on specious grounds such as physiology, motherhood and physical attributes. Directed the Centre to&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/sc-rules-in-favour-of-permanent-commission-for-women-officers-in-navy-2\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SC rules in favour of permanent commission for women officers in Navy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1760],"tags":[6267],"class_list":["post-89446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-polity-and-nation","tag-permanent-commission","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704709712},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89446","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\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}