Indian Army: 400 Posts Of Permanent Commission Officer On The Anvil For Women

The Indian Army, amid the ongoing parleys for including women in combat roles, is planning to provide 400 permanent commission positions for women in the fields of cyberspace and language operations. Work is underway for the project, and the government is likely to announce the plan in the coming months.

“We see a lot of opportunities for women officers in cyber and space operations, which are coming up very fast due to the changing nature of warfare. Women can be permanently inducted as specialist officers there and can serve for long periods," said a senior Army officer, reports Economic Times.

In a recent development, Prime Minister Narendra Modi cleared the setting up of cyber and space agencies for the defence forces so that they can tackle challenges in the aforementioned fields. It is reported that 400 women officers are required to look after these issues.

Women officers will be handling the portfolio of language specialist officers as the forces lack interpreters for Chinese, Sinhalese, Myanmarese and Vietnamese languages. Furthermore, the Army is looking for jawans in the military police.

Initially, women officers were inducted initially as short service commission officers where they had to leave service after a maximum of 14 years.