Based on a recommendation from the Army, the defence ministry has okayed a proposal to allow women who join as fresh recruits in 2015 and beyond to command units after being trained on the same pattern as their male counterparts.
The Army has chosen Army Aviation as one of the streams in which women could be inducted and allowed to command units. The other streams could be signals and engineers.
The armed forces have only now begun to offer permanent commission to women officers after earlier restricting them to legal, education and other such wings.
Since the early-1990s, women have been serving in wings like legal, education, engineering, ordnance, intelligence, signals, air traffic control and the like of the armed forces but only as short-service commission officers with a maximum of 14 years in uniform.
Women officers are still not allowed to serve on operational warships or fly fighter jets, or join infantry, artillery or armoured corps. There are just around 2,250 women in the officer cadre of the 13-lakh-strong armed forces.
via Times of India ,
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