New Delhi, February 15

The Supreme Court approved Indian Army’s promotions under ‘command and exit’ model, subject to creation of additional posts for the affected divisions, on Monday.

Under the policy the Army’s infantry and artillery officers were given priority while giving promotions.

The Central Government had appealed an order by Armed Forces Tribunal order in which quashed the policy in May 2015.

In the previous hearing, the Central Government had proposed creating 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

The command exit policy was framed in 2009 on the recommendations of AV Singh committee for reducing the age of colonels in combat units in line with the practice in Pakistan, China and Japan. — Agencies/ TNS