Indian Army: Give Wings to Your Dreams

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One of the finest and largest armies in the world, the Indian Army is a career that attracts the youngsters who wish for challenge, adventure and are patriotic enough to take risks for there country. It is the land branch of the Indian defense forces. A career in the Indian army means a great opportunity to get trained in the newest and most complicated technologies, to be disciplined to the heights of discipline, to become civilized and cultured to the topmost level and to accept a challenge to serve the nation selflessly. It means courage and a lot of devotion. The Indian army recruits and trains the Indian Citizens for different posts of different ranks. The qualifications vary. To become officers, the candidates have to qualify the entrance tests for the National Defense Academy (NDA) or Indian Military Academy (IMA). By qualifying this, the candidate joins the army on Permanent Commission i.e. from absorption till retirement. There is another basis and that is of Short Service Commission which is for tenure of 5 years. However the candidates opting for Short Service commission have an option to continue working and join the Permanent commission.

For the NDA examination the candidate should be 10+2 pass or equivalent, belong to the age group of 16 ½ to 19 years. The NDA exam is followed by SSB interview. The union public service commission publishes advertisements for the exam twice a year, once in March/April and another in October/November. There are 4 options available to those who join army through IMA. These are: Direct Entry, 10+2 PCM (technical) Entry Scheme, university entry scheme and the Engineering Graduate Entry.

Any candidate after graduating with a bachelors’ degree, belonging to the age group 19 to 24 years, can appear in the Combined Defense Service Examination (CDSE) and then the SSB interview for the Direct Entry Scheme. The 10+2 pass students between the age 16 ½ and 19 ½ can go for the 10+2 PCM (technical) Entry scheme. These candidates need to apply directly to the Recruitment Directorate. For this email to the id: recruitingdirectorate@vsnl.net

The candidate has to be in final or the pre-final year of engineering degree course for the university Entry Scheme. This commences in July. The applicant here needs to qualify campus interview followed by the SSB interview. For the Engineering graduates, the application is to be made to the Additional Directorate General of Recruiting (TGC), Army Head-Quarters, West block III, RK Puram, New Delhi – 110066. For engineering entry, there is a direct SSB interview. The Indian army recruits the women too for the officer ranks. The minimum educational eligibility is graduation and post graduations. The women are employed in the Short Service Commission. The candidates are allowed to appear for the SSB interview after the Army HQ screens the applications.

For the regular commissioned and short service commissioned medical officers post, the all India competitive exam is conducted by the Director General of Armed Forces Medical Services. The selected candidates are trained at the Armed Forces Medial College, Pune. The recruitments for other ranks like the Jawans and the non-commissioned ranks are conducted by the Head Quarter Recruiting Zones and Branch Recruiting Offices. The advertisements appear in the local newspapers based on the locations. The interested candidates can log on to the Indian Army’s official website and visit the Recruitment Locations sections for the information on BRO and ZO locations.