Shillong, Feb 28: The Indian Army has announced transformational changes in recruitment procedure of Agniveers/ Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs) and Operational Requirement Staffs (ORs) for the year 2023-2024.
Talking to reporters here on Tuesday, Deputy Director General (Recruiting) for North Eastern states, Brigadier Harpreet Singh said that all candidates in stage I will have to register and apply online on joinindianarmy.nic.in (JIA website) for the common entrance exam (CCE)
He further informed that the shortlisted candidates in Stage II 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 Medical Test at rally location,” Brigadier Singh said.
Meanwhile, DDG (Recruiting) informed that the online registration for the CCE on JIA website is open from 16 Feb 23 to 15 Mar 23 adding that the process of registration remains the same as earlier.
He,however, informed that candidates can either register using their Aadhaar Card or their class 10th certificate.
“As part of continued automation, the Join Indian Army website has now been linked with Digilocker for greater transparency,” Brigadier Singh said.
Informing that the online CEE is being conducted at 176 locations across India, he informed that the candidates have the choices to select five Exam locations and they shall be allotted exam locations from within those choices. For online CEE fee is Rs 500/- per candidate adding that 50% of the cost is being borne by the Army. At the end of the registration process the candidates would be directed to a payment portal.
DDG (Recruiting) informed that candidates are required to pay Rs 250/- along with associated bank charges if any, by using Internet Banking, UPI/BHIM or credit or debit cards of all major banks like Maestro, Master Card, VISA or RuPay cards.
“Candidates are advised to activate their debit cards for online transactions. A candidate will be considered registered only once his payment is successful & a Roll No generated at this stage, which shall be used at all stages,” he said.
DDG (Recruiting) also informed that this will be the online registration for this whole year adding that the next online registration will only be held next year.
“Candidate will not be able to apply for any recruitment for this whole year if they failed to do the online registration now,” Brigadier Singh said.
Brigadier Singh further informed that to appear in the online CEE, admit cards would be available on Join Indian Army website 10-14 days prior to commencement of the examination Intimation of the same shall be sent to candidates’ mobiles through SMS and also on their registered email IDs.
According to him, the admit card will have the exact address for Exam Centre adding that the online CEE is a computer-based examination adding that the process to appear in the examination is very simple.
To guide the candidates, a video on ‘How to Appear in Online Common Entrance Exam” is available on the Join Indian Army website and also on YouTube. It is clarified that there is no change in the syllabus & pattern.
To clarify any doubts of the candidates, a helpdesk has also been established, details of which are available on the Join Indian Army website. For queries related to Online CEE, they can also be clarified on mob No 7996157222.