Wednesday, May 21, 2014

INDIAN ARMY, PERMANENT COMMISSION 10+2 TECHNICAL ENTRY SCHEME

INDIAN ARMY

PERMANENT COMMISSION
10+2 TECHNICAL ENTRY SCHEME
COURSE - 32 COMMENCING FROM JAN 2015


Applications are invited from unmarried Male Candidates who have passed 10+2 examination with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics (Hereinafter referred to as PCM) subjects and fulfill the eligibility conditions prescribed in the subsequent paragraphs, for the grant of Permanent Commission in the Army after 4 years of Basic Military Training and Technical Training thereafter with the terms and conditions given in the succeeding paragraphs.

ELIGIBILITY:
(a) Nationality: A candidate must either be : (i) A citizen of India, or (ii) A subject of Bhutan, or (iii) A subject of Nepal, or (iv) a Tibetan refugee who came over to India before the 1st of January 1962 with the intention of permanently settling in India or (v) a person of Indian origin who has migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka and East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and Ethopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India. Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (ii), (iii), (iv) and (v) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility is necessary may be admitted to the examination provisionally subject to the necessary certificate being given to him by the Govt before declaration of result by SSB/joining training.
(b) Age Limit: A candidate must not be below 16½ years and above 19½ years on the first day of the month in which the course is commencing i.e. the candidate should not be born before 01 Jul 1995 and not after 01 Jul 1998 (both days inclusive). The date of birth accepted by the office is that entered in the Marticulation or Secondary School Leaving certificate or in the certificate recognised by an Indian University as equivalent to Matriculation or in an extract from a Register of Matriculates maintained by a University which extract must be certified by the proper authority of the University or in the Higher Secondary or an equivalent examination certificate. No other document relating to age will be accepted. The expression Matriculation/  Higher Secondary Examination Certificate in this part of the instruction includes the alternative certificate mentioned above.
NOTE 1: Candidate should note only the date of birth as recorded in the Matriculation/ Higher Secondary Examination Certificate or an equivalent certificate on the date of submission of applications will be accepted and no subsequent request for its change will be considered or granted.
NOTE 2: Candidates should also note that once a date of birth has been claimed by them and entered in the records, no change will be allowed subsequently or a subsequent examination on any ground whatsoever.
NOTE 3: Candidates must undertake not to marry until they complete their full training. A candidate who marries subsequent to the date of his application, though successful, will not be selected for training. A candidate who marries during training shall be discharged and will be liable to refund all expenditure incurred on him by the government.

(C) Educational Qualification: Only those candidates who have passed 10+2 Examination or its equivalent with a minimum aggregate of 70% marks in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics from a recognized education boards are eligible to apply for this entry. Eligibility conditions for calculating % of PCM will be followed as per the present guideliness/ instructions in vogue of various state/central Boards.

3. VACANCIES: 90
 Vacancies are provisional and can be changed depending on the training capacity at the training Academy for this course. The vacancies are subject to increase/decrease keeping the organizational requirement at the point of time.

4. TYPE OF COMMISSION: On successful completion of 4 years of the course cadets will be granted Permanent Commission in the Army in the rank of Lt.. Grant of Commission: On successful completion of total 04 years training,  the candidates will be commissioned in the rank of Lt. They will be granted seniority on overall order of merit of the three technical institutes combined i.e. CME, MCTE, MCEME and in case the date of commissioning coincides with that of IMA, Dehradun, they will be placed en-block junior to IMA (NDA / ACC / DE Course ) but above TGC / UES course.

TRAINING
6. Total training will be 5 years, Details as under:
(a) Basic Military Training : 1 year (Officer Training Academy Gaya). (b) Technical Training: (i)Phase-I (Pre Commission Training): 3 Years (CME Pune, MCTE Mhow and MCEME Secunderabad), (ii) Phase-II (Post Commission Training):
1 year at CME Pune, MCTE Mhow and MCEME Secunderabad. (c) Award of Degree: The candidates will be awarded Engineering degree after successful completion of training as given out in para 6 (a) and (b) above. No ante date seniority will be admissible to candidates on account of this Engineering degree.
In case they fail to qualify in the following year examination, the same will result in loss of seniority to them and they will forfiet seniority to the extent of delay in passing Engineering degree examination. If they fail to qualify even within three years of their commissioning, their commission will be terminated.

COST OF TRAINING
7. The entire cost of training including books and reading material is borne by the Army. Cadets are also provided with free accommodation and messing. In case the GC is withdrawn from training academy due to reasons other than Medical ground or the reasons not beyond his control, he will be liable to refund cost of training @ Rs. 8135/ -per week for the period of his stay at the Officer Training Academy, Gaya/Cadet Taining Wing.
8. The selection procedure is as follows:
(a) Short listed candidates will be called for Services Selection Board (SSB) interview at Bhopal, Bangalore or Allahabad. Interviews will be held in Aug/Sep 2014 onwards. (b) Duration of SSB interviews is five days excluding day of arrival. During their stay at SSB, Candidates are put through psychological Test, Group test and Interviews. (c)Candidates will be put through stage - I of the selection procedure on the first day. Only successful candidates shall be retained for balance of the testing. Candidates who fail to qualify in stage - I, will be returned on the first day itself, Stage I are psychologically originated test including intelligence test. (d) Successful candidates at the SSB will be required to undergo medical test lasting 3 to 5 days less Sundays and gazetted holidays. (e) Candidates recommended by the SSB and declared medically fit, will be appointed for training in the order of merit, depending on the number of vacancies available. (f) The finally selected candidates will execute all the Bonds/Certificates as prescribed for the Cadets of NDA entry under Al 53/78.(g) Candidates appearing for SSB interview for the first time for a particular type of commission shall be entitled for AC III tier to and fro railway fare or bus fare including reservation cum sleeper charges within the Indian limits. Candidates who apply again for the same type of commission will not entitled to travelling allowance on any subsequent occasion.

Application: Application can be submitted only on line at the link, ‘online application’ at www.joinindianarmy.nic.in , till 1000hrs on 30th June 2014. Terms and conditions linked to the form must be read, prior to submitting the form. While filling up the application form, applicants are required to indicate the exact PCM percentage of Class 12thup to two decimals and are not to be rounded off. After submitting the form, an acknowledgement with a Roll number will be provided to the candidate. If the system does not generate Roll Number, it is an indication of non-acceptance of application by the system. After submitting online application, applicants are required to obtain two copies of the application printout and the Roll Number generated by the system. One copy of this, duly completed as instructed, is to be carried for SSB Interview, if called. The second copy of the printout of online application is to be retained by the applicant for future reference. There is no need to send any hard copy to Directorate General Recruiting/ Recruiting Directorate. A candidate must submit only one application. Receipt of multiple applications from the same candidate will result in cancellation of candidature. Any change in postal address of applicant after submission of application must be communicated by post duly quoting Roll No, name and course opted for.

All incomplete online applications will be rejected outright. No intimation will be given to the candidate in writing or verbally. The events that would lead to the rejection of application are given in the detailed notification available at http://joinindianarmy.nic.in/32-TES-notification.pdf.  Those withdrawn from NDA, OTA, IMA, Naval Academy, Air force Academy on disciplinary grounds are not eligible to apply.

Selection: The application will be screened at Recruiting Directorate, Integrated Headquarters, Ministry of Defence (Army) and the candidate thereafter will be detailed for SSB. Army Headquarters will short list applications after fixing cut off percentage of PCM marks. Shortlisted candidates will be called for Service Selection Board (SSB) interview at Bhopal, Bangalore or Allahabad from August/September 2014 onwards. When reporting for SSB interview, applicant should carry one copy of the print out of online application duly signed, with a photograph of the applicant, attested by a gazetted officer of Central/State Govt. affixed on it, along with photocopies of Class 10thCertificate/Mark sheet showing date of birth and12thClass Certificate, duly attested by Gazetted officer. The originals of these certificates are also to be carried to the Selection Centre by the candidate for the SSB interview. Originals will be returned after verification at the Service Selection Board itself. The candidature of candidates, who do not carry these documents for the SSB interview, will be cancelled.

Request for change of SSB Interview date should be avoided. However, under most unavoidable circumstances, such change may be considered based on the circumstances of the case. This will be an exception rather the rule. Request for such change should be forwarded to Selection Centre from where the call-up letter for SSB interview has been received and not to Directorate General Recruiting. The Selection Centre may permit change of date at their discretion.

Duration of SSB interviews is five days excluding day of arrival. During their stay at SSB, candidates are put through psychological Test, Group test and Interviews. Candidates will be put through stage-1 of the selection procedure on the first day. Only successful candidates will be retained for the remaining part of SSB Interview. Those who fail to qualify in stage-1 will be returned on the first day itself. Stage I includes psychologically originated test including intelligence test. Successful candidates at the SSB will be required to undergo medical test lasting 3 to 5 days less Sundays and gazetted holidays. Those recommended by the SSB and declared medically fit, will be appointed for training in the order of merit, depending on the number of vacancies available. Those finally selected will have to execute all the Bonds/Certificates as prescribed for the Cadets of NDA entry under Al 53/78. Those appearing for SSB interview for the first time for a particular type of commission shall be entitled for AC III tier to and fro railway fare or bus fare including reservation cum sleeper charges within the Indian limits. Candidates who apply again for the same type of commission will not entitled to travelling allowance on any subsequent occasion

No compensation will be paid in respect of any injury sustained as a result of test conducted at SSB. Final merit list will be displayed at the notice board of Recruiting Directorate (Offers Selection), Directorate General Recruiting, West Block-III, R.K Puram, New Delhi-110066 as well as at Indian Army, Recruiting Directorate website www.joinindianarmy.nic.in  before induction for precommissioning training. For any queries regarding SSB interview centre, call up details, reporting date and merit list, candidates may contact, 011-26175473 between 1400 hrs and 1700 hrs on working days or may visit www.joinindianarmy.nic.in . The fax No of DG Rtg is 011-26196205.


Details related to the Pay Bands, Grade Pay and Military service Pay, Qualification Grant, Allowances as applicable, Cost to company(CTC), Privileges, Promotion, Retirement Benefits, Leave, Physical Standards needed for Admission etc; are given in the detailed notification available at http://joinindianarmy.nic.in/32-TES-notification.pdf

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