Indian Army Recruitment 2023: Candidates looking to work with the Indian Army need to hurry up as today (February 16) is the last date to apply for the nine vacancies. As per a notification released on the official website at https://www.joinindianarmy.nic.in, the Indian Army has sought applications from unmarried male and unmarried female Law Graduates for the grant of Short Service Commission in the Army for the Judge Advocate General Branch. The Short Service Commission will be granted to male and female candidates in the regular Army for 14 years -- for an initial period of 10 years extendable by a further period of four years. The notification stated that the selected candidates will be detailed for Pre-Commission training at OTA, Chennai according to their position in the final order of merit, up to the number of available vacancies, subject to meeting all eligibility criteria.
"Candidates will neither be allowed to marry during the period of training nor will he/she be allowed to live with parents/guardians. Candidates must not marry until they complete the full training at OTA," the official notification stated.
"A candidate if he/she marries, while under training, shall be discharged and will be liable to refund all expenditure incurred on him/her by the Government," it stated.
Indian Army Recruitment 2023: Vacancy details
Men - 06
Women - 03
Army Recruitment 2023: Educational qualification
- A candidate needs to have a minimum 55% aggregate marks in his/her LLB Degree (three years professional after graduation or five years after 10 plus 2) examination.
- In addition, the CLAT PG Score of the preceding year is mandatory for all candidates (including LLM qualified and LLM appearing candidates) who apply for courses starting in a particular year.
- The candidates should be eligible for registration as an advocate with the Bar Council of India/State.
- The Candidate should be from a College/University recognized by the Bar Council of India.
Indian Army Recruitment: Age limit
As on July 1, 2023, an interested and eligible candidate should be 21 to 27 years. This means that the candidate should not be born earlier than July 2, 1996, and not later than July 1, 2002; both dates are inclusive.
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Army Recruitment: How to apply
Candidates need to apply online on the website -- www.joinindianarmy.nic.in.
- Click on ‘Officer Entry Appln/Login’ and then click ‘Registration’ (Registrations are not required if already registered on www.joinindianarmy.nic.in).
- Fill out the online registration form after reading the instructions carefully.
- After getting registered, click on ‘Apply Online’ under Dashboard. A page ‘Officers Selection - ‘Eligibility’ will open.
- Then click ‘Apply’ shown against Short Service Commission JAG Entry Course.
- A page ‘Application Form’ will open. Read the instructions carefully and click ‘Continue’ to fill in details as required under various segments. ‘Save & Continue’ each time before you go to the next segment.
- After filling in details on the last segment, you will move to the page ‘Summary of your information’ wherein you can check and edit the entries already made. Only after ascertaining the correctness of all your details, click on ‘Submit’.
Candidates are needed to take out two copies of their application having Roll Number.
Army Jobs 2023: Last date
The last date to apply is today (3 PM).
