Wednesday, 08 March 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The Indian Army has made changes in the Agniveer recruitment procedure of Junior Commissioned Officer (JCO) and Other Ranks (OR). The director, army recruitment, Lansdowne, colonel Munish Sharma told media persons here on Monday that in stage I, all candidates who have registered and applied online on joinindianarmy.nic.in (JIA website) will undergo common entrance examination (CEE). In stage II, the shortlisted candidates will be called for recruitment rally at locations decided by respective AROs where they will undergo physical fitness tests and physical measurement tests. Finally in stage III, the selected candidates will undergo a medical test at rally location. Col Sharma said that the online registration on JIA website is open from 16 February 16 to March 15. Candidates can either register using their Aadhar Card or their class 10th certificate. He added that as part of continued automation, the Join Indian Army website has now been linked with Digilocker for greater transparency.
The online CEE would be conducted at 176 locations across India. In Uttarakhand the examinations would be conducted in seven (Dehradun, Pauri, Roorkee, Haldwani, Nainital, Pithoragarh and Almora) locations. For the online CEE, the admit cards would be available on the Join Indian Army website 10 to 14 days prior to commencement of the examination.
The online CEE is a computer based examination and the Army has kept it very simple. A video on ‘How to Appear in Online Common Entrance Exam” is available on the Join Indian Army website and on YouTube. Based on their performance in the online CEE, the shortlisted candidates will be called to nominated venues for recruitment rallies. The procedure of recruitment rallies remains unchanged.
Colonel Sharma said that the changed procedure will focus on enhanced cognitive aspects during recruitment and will result in wider and better outreach across the country. It will also reduce large crowds assembling at recruiting rallies and reduce the administrative arrangements therein.
He said that the whole process has become completely automated with minimal human intervention and the candidates are advised not to fall prey to touts as they cannot help them in any way.
