(Source: PTI Photo/Files)The Defence Ministry will soon announce the formation of another expert committee to look into the controversial issue of status equivalence between military officers and their civilian counterparts. This follows the rising disquiet among serving military officers — exhibited on social media platforms — that the Army had agreed to an existing committee’s recommendations on status equivalence. “The expert committee on determining the equivalence between military officers and Armed Forces Headquarters (AFHQ)-cadre civilian officers is likely to be reconstituted due to change of incumbents of the previous committee. The armed forces have, however, not been granted the NFU, which was challenged by Colonel Mukul Dev in an Armed Forces Tribunal, which ruled in his favour. The NFU case is not really about the armed forces.

Source: Indian Express October 24, 2017 22:47 UTC