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NEW DELHI: After women officers getting permanent commission and command posting in defence forces on par with their male counterparts, gender discrimination in getting admission in military colleges and school including National Defence Academy may soon come to an end and female candidates may be allowed entry as the Centre on Thursday told the Supreme Court that it was not averse to considering it.
Responding to a public interest litigation seeking court’s direction to Centre to allow entry and equal opportunity for girls in institutions like Indian Military College, Rashtriya Indian Military College, Sainik schools, additional solicitor general Aishwarya Bhati told a bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari that government was not considering the issue adversarial and is agreeable to consider it.
Bhati informed the bench that a similar petition seeking entry of women in National Defence Academy was also pending in the apex court and both the cases could be heard together.
Petitioner Kailas Udhavrao More, who is an advocate practising in Supreme Court, told the bench that barring entry of girls in defence ministry-run educational institutions amounted to discrimination on the basis of gender and is violative of constitutional principles.
In another petition filed by advocate Mohit Kaul, the petitioner sought entry of women in NDA and pleaded the court to direct the Centre to allow eligible and willing female candidates to join NDA and afford them opportunity to enrol and train.
Responding to a public interest litigation seeking court’s direction to Centre to allow entry and equal opportunity for girls in institutions like Indian Military College, Rashtriya Indian Military College, Sainik schools, additional solicitor general Aishwarya Bhati told a bench of Justices Vineet Saran and Dinesh Maheshwari that government was not considering the issue adversarial and is agreeable to consider it.
Bhati informed the bench that a similar petition seeking entry of women in National Defence Academy was also pending in the apex court and both the cases could be heard together.
Petitioner Kailas Udhavrao More, who is an advocate practising in Supreme Court, told the bench that barring entry of girls in defence ministry-run educational institutions amounted to discrimination on the basis of gender and is violative of constitutional principles.
In another petition filed by advocate Mohit Kaul, the petitioner sought entry of women in NDA and pleaded the court to direct the Centre to allow eligible and willing female candidates to join NDA and afford them opportunity to enrol and train.
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