NEW DELHI: A woman navy officer will be posted as an assistant naval attache to Moscow soon. This will be the first time that a woman officer of the Indian Navy and the second from the military will be posted as a defence attache to an Indian mission abroad.
Normally, only male officers, whether from the army, navy and air force, were posted as defence attaches to Indian missions. This trend was broken when an Indian Air Force woman officer Wing Commander Anjali Singh became India’s first woman defence attache at an Indian mission. She was posted to Moscow and has taken charge as the deputy air attache.
Officials added that a woman navy officer will be posted as the assistant naval attache to the Indian embassy in Moscow this year. The navy is in the process of shortlisting officers for the post. For choosing an officer as a defence attache or assistant defence attache, besides shortlisting, it also identifies the missions where they can be posted. Clearance of the governments of India and the country where the officer will be posted, is taken. When the post becomes vacant, the officer is posted. Presently, no woman navy officer is posted as a defence attache.
The move of posting women defence attaches has broken another proverbial glass ceiling in the male-dominated services. It comes amid several moves in the past to provide women with more opportunities, which were only given to men.
The IAF was the first to open its fighter stream to women when it selected three women fighter pilots. This was another area that was closed to women. The army as well has opened the doors for women in their recruitment as jawans. Every year, a batch of 100 women soldiers will be inducted into the army’s Corps of Military Police (CMP) until their cadre strength is 1,700. The duration of their training will be 61 weeks, just like their male counterparts. Before this, women were only commissioned as officers into the army, except in the combat arms.
Source: ET
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