Bias against women in Navy: Brinda

Accusing the Navy of discriminating against its women officers,CPM leader Brinda Karat on Tuesday wrote to Defence Minister A K Antony seeking his intervention. She argued that the governments 2008 decision to offer permanent commission to women officers of the three services has been implemented in the Navy in a discriminatory way.

The most recent case,she said,was that of lady officers who joined service as short commission officers before 2009. While male short commission officers who joined the Navy prior to 2009 are being offered permanent commission in a number of branches,women officers are being denied the same right. This is highly discriminatory,8221; she said in her letter.