For the health of an organisation like Army where one has to commit himself to nothing less than supreme sacrifices, it can afford divisions and varying conditions for its officers class.
There can not be a class which thinks and makes conditions for themselves to be generals and the other which knows they are only being used.
Can Army afford such distinction like police where all work is done by someone but the boss is a new lad called IPS.
Do you really think that becoming a General is that easy.
If it were because of NDA, then why are all NDA people not General and why some have retired as Major and now as non selection Colonels and others have gone to become Generals?
What humbug are you trying to propagate?
Slim was from the ranks and became a General.
Kundan Singh was from the ranks and became a General.
It is people like you, who are perpetually of the complaining and cribbing mindset, you find fault with the system.
I, as all those I know, never bothered what was one's entry, caste ,community or religion and we worked fine and without any complaints.
And we never cared who rose to what rank and what was his antecedents because it did not concern us and we knew that the system with all its fault was applicable to all of us.
It is those who are ambitious and incompetent to boot and have no confidence in themselves, are the one who grouse!
There are people who say I did not exploit my potential to reach the starry heights. Comforting words. But then who is at fault? Me or the system?
Why blame the system for your deficiencies?
The fact that I am remembered fondly wherever I go including people I am surprised that they know of me, is a greater honour, than being the Chief as Deepak Kapoor, who would be hardly welcomed into any unit or Mess!
One must be satisfied with what God had given rather than aspire to heights where you are ridiculed and condemned.
The last word is We must be at Peace with ourselves and not dream and be miserable!