Gender discrimination: SC raps Army Dental Corps for keeping 90% posts for male

Supreme Court slammed defence services for leaving only 10% vacancies for the recruitment of women in the Army Dental Corps. The court opined that the stand of the Army to allow males up to the rank of 2394 and females only up to the rank of 235, was discriminatory. Sources said the Centre had not passed any orders on such reservations for men in Army Dental Corps. The decision has been taken internally by the Armed Forces Medical Services head. The SC has also observed that women candidates '10 times more meritorious' are being ignored. It said that depriving women of competing with men was against Article 15 of the Constitution. SC ordered that interviews of the left-out women candidates who had petitioned the HC be conducted.

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