Women officers will be granted Permanent Commission in the Indian Army in all the ten branches where they are inducted for Short Service Commission (SSC).

Now, the Permanent Commission will be granted in Signals, Engineers, Army Aviation, Army Air Defence, Electronics and Mechanical Engineers, Army Service Corps, Army Ordnance Corps and Intelligence to women officers besides the existing two streams of Judge Advocate General and Army Education Corps.

In a statement, the Defence Ministry said, SSC women officers will give their option for Permanent Commission before completion of four years of Commissioned Service. It said they will have the option for grant of Permanent Commission and their choice of specialisation.