Promotion policy row: Army to create 141 additional vacancies

The court asked advocate Neela Gokhale and others representing the petitioner officers to come out with their calculations on the number of vacancies.

The Supreme Court on Thursday favoured the Centre’s proposal to create 141 additional vacancies for promotion of the officers of combat support units, to also accommodate officers aggrieved by the Army’s 2009 promotion policy, which gave preference to those posted in Artillery and Infantry divisions.

A bench of Justice T S Thakur and Justice Kurian Joseph called it a “reasonable and positive step” after the government’s counsel admitted its “mistake” in implementing the 2009 policy, which had granted maximum vacancies for Infantry and Artillery for promotion to the rank of Colonel and above.

The bench told Additional Solicitor General Maninder Singh, who appeared for the Ministry of Defence, to act in accordance with the merit list prepared by the board for promotion of officers posted in signals, engineering and in other corps.

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Singh submitted it was a “bonafide mistake” and additional vacancies had been made to accommodate officers who felt left out in promotion to the post of Colonel, and opposed the 2009 ‘Command Exit’ policy.

The court, which posted the matter for further hearing on November 19, asked advocate Neela Gokhale and others representing the petitioner officers to come out with their calculations on the number of vacancies.

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