Later, the government reduced the command tenure of the three combat support arms- Engineers, Signals and Air Defence- and allocated 141 additional vacancies of Colonels to them. But, the use of the Command Exit Model led to the first round of litigation by the affected supporting arms, because of very few vacancies being allocated to them in the second tranche. The Colonel vacancies were allocated in two tranches. The calculation of the Colonel vacancies was based on the Command Exit Model, while those of higher ranks was done proportionate to the number of Colonels. Having shorter tenures also led to more vacancies for the combat arms in what is termed as the ‘Command Exit Model’.īased on the AVSC’s recommendations, the government allotted fresh vacancies- 1484 Colonels, 222 Brigadiers, 75 Major Generals and 20 Lieutenant Generals- to the army, according to the order. This resulted in younger Commanding Officers for the combat arms as compared to those in the other two categories. All this meant that the promotion of the next batch of officers from the combat arms to become Commanding Officers will be faster, as compared to those of the combat support and the services. However, for the combat support arms and the services the command tenure was kept longer. The army laid down the command tenure for the infantry officers at 2.5 years, while the command tenure of officers from the other combat arms was kept at around 3 years. It aimed at doing this for the Commanding Officers of the units of the combat arms, primarily for the infantry. The AVSC was constituted by the defence ministry in the aftermath to the 1999 Kargil War to bring down the age of Commanding Officers. The third category are the services such as the Army Service Corps. The combat support arms don’t physically engage the enemy and instead support those in combat. The army has four such combat arms- infantry, mechanised infantry, armour and artillery. In the army combat, by definition, involves those who physically engage the enemy. This is in keeping with the allocation of 141 vacancies in the rank of Colonel to these arms. Major General vacancies allotted by the government in tune with the AVSC ( Ajay Vikram Singh Committee) recommendations, or in addition to these vacancies, to Engineers, Signals and Air Defence Corps of the Indian Army,” reads the judgement.
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