Indian lower rank jawans are facing discrimination

Discrimination, deprivation, exclusion and exploitation are endemic to every society, which leads to frustration, anger and aggression. Those who are subjected to injustice and oppression tend to rebel and revolt. These reactions culminate in assertion which give rise to people’s movements. But social movements are not an everyday phenomenon. Discrimination and deprivation always do not lead to protest and aggression. Only when people become conscious of these inequalities and injustices and mobilise and organise themselves to struggles against those who subject them to servitude and bondage, people’s movements takes place. Moreover when the disadvantaged and the downtrodden see that another alternative is both possible and viable they try to overthrow the existing social order and unjust system. Sadly, jawans working in Indian Army cannot become part of any revolt or movement despite their longing for quick removal of discrimination and maltreatment with them.

The question of Indian lower ranks' rights is not just a matter of addressing their grievances, but at large it corroborates to the affirmation of their rights through policy reforms in Indian army. It can help them provide a respectable status and prove a long lasting solution to their frustrations.