Out of 71 women Short Service Commission officers who went to Supreme Court, 39 were found eligible for Permanent Commission as seven were found to be medically unfit.

The National Defence Academy (NDA) is prepping up for the admission of female cadets. The government said that women will be able to sit for the entrance exam from May 2022.

Women in NDA and with permanent commission grant comes as a big step towards gender representation in the armed forces ranks.

On the issue of NDA exam for women for admission into army training, SC questioned the “gender discrimination” mindset in a momentous order.

Major Vibhuti Shankar and Nitika Kaul Dhoundiyal had been married for only nine months when she lost him to the attack of terrorists. He was just 34.

President Mukherjee had always been a champion of women’s rights and empowerment. Most notably, in 2016, he spearheaded the agenda of allowing women to serve in fighter combat streams of the Indian forces.

Battle Physical Efficiency Test (BPET), which is a series of physical tests is used to test the physical fitness of an officer or a jawan to perform military tasks.

I was in service during the Kargil war in 1999, posted in Pathankot. We were a family of four in three cities as my children were with their grandparents in Pune and my husband was posted in Hisar, says Lt General Madhuri Kanitkar.

“It is an insult to women as well as the army when aspersions are cast on women, their ability and their achievements in the Army,” the Supreme Court noted.

A bench of Justices D Y Chandrachud and Ajay Rastogi said, “If you have the will and change of mindset, it can be done.”