The man fighting for women in the military
February 20, 2018  11:36
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Advocate Kush Kalra filed a Public Interest Litigation against the Territorial Army's discriminatory rule that prevented women from joining the TA, an organisation of gainfully employed, physically able Indian citizens for voluntary military service.


As a result of the PIL, the court paved the way for women's entry to the Territorial Army after 70 years. Kalra 30, has also filed a PIL against the discrimination faced by married women being inducted into JAG, the legal branch of the army.


So far, he has filed six PILs on gender discrimination against the army and navy, including the bar on admitting girls into Sainik Schools, discrimination faced by women in the army education corps and engineering services -- and also in some branches of the navy.


Kalra tells Rediff.com's Archana Masih why he takes up the causes he does and why the military needs to change with the times.

Read the interview here.


Image: Kush Kalra (left) presents a book written by him to Attorney General K K Venugopal, under whom he interned for a month in 2012.
Kalra has received the Youth Award from the ministry of youth affairs and has published 13 books on law. He has practiced as an advocate in the Delhi high court for 5 years.
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