New Delhi, May 29 (PTI) Indian Army is at unease over the two-stream policy of promotion of Major Generals to the rank of Lieutenant Generals and has asked the Defence Ministry to revert to a single stream policy for promoting officers.
Even while a decision is awaited on this, the government has promoted 23 Major Generals to the next rank of Lieutenant Generals under the existing two-stream policy.
"Out of the 23 officers, 16 have been promoted to the rank of Lt Generals under Command and Staff stream while seven have been promoted under the Staff stream," Army officials said here.
The decision to promote the officers was taken during the recent Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) meeting headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
The officials further added that Army's proposal for single-stream policy is still pending with the Ministry.