Indian Army has released an official notification for the recruitment of Commissioned Officers. Interested and eligible candidates can apply online through the official website of Indian Army. The last date for application is 12-06-2025.

The selection procedure is as follows:-

(a) Shortlisting of Applications. Integrated HQ of MoD (Army) reserves the right to shortlist the applications and to fix cut off based on the JEE Mains CRL, without assigning ALL CANDIDATES ARE REQUIRED TO FILL THEIR APPLICATION NUMBER FOR JEE MAINS 2025 FOR B.E/B TECH COURSES ONLY. 10 any reason. After shortlisting of candidates, the Centre allotment will be intimated to the candidate via their email. After allotment of Selection Centre, firm SSB dates will be allotted to the candidates.

(b) SSB. Only shortlisted eligible candidates depending on the cut off will undergo SSB at one of the Selection Centres i.e, Prayagraj (UP), Bhopal (MP), Bengaluru (Karnataka) or Jalandhar (Punjab) by Psychologist, Group Testing Officer and Interviewing Officer. Call Up letter for SSB interview will be issued by respective Selection Centres on candidate’s registered e-mail ID and SMS only. Allotment of Selection Centre is at the discretion of Directorate General of Recruiting, Integrated Headquarters of MoD (Army) and NO request for changes are entertained in this regard. Candidates will be put through two stage selection procedure. Those who clear Stage I will go to Stage II. Those who fail in Stage I will be returned on the same day. Duration of SSB interview is five days and details of the same are available at the official website of Directorate General of Recruiting www.joinindianarmy.nic.in. This will be followed by a medical examination for the candidates who get recommended after Stage II.

(c) Medicals. In the eventuality of being recommended by SSB, Candidates are required to undergo Medical examination at nearest Military Hospital and candidate should have no objection for undergoing medical examination by board of Male/Female doctors.

(d) Merit and Joining Letters. Merit list will be prepared based only on the marks obtained by the candidates in SSB. Candidates recommended by the SSB and declared medically fit, will be issued Joining Letter for training in the order of merit, depending on the number of vacancies available, subject to meeting all eligibility criteria.

(e) Candidates who have been recommended by the SSBs will be required to fill three choices of Cadets Training Wing (CTW) i.e. CTW, CME Pune, CTW, MCTE Mhow & CTW, MCEME Secunderabad. All choices will be required to be mandatorily filled. There should be no common choices. Choice cannot be changed once made by the candidate. Filling of choice will not determine allocation of Cadets Training Wings. Final allocation of Cadets Training Wings will be decided by Indian Army and will be indicated in the joining instructions issued. No representation or change of Cadets Training Wings will be permitted.

(f) Physical Standards. Candidates who are issued joining letters are expected to achieve minimum physical standards as tabulated below:- Ser No Activity Minimum Physical Stadards on Arrival Officer Cadet (Male) (i) 2.4 Km Run 10 Minutes 30 Seconds (ii) Push Up 40 (iii) Pull Up 06 (iv) Sit Up 30 (v) Squats Two Sets of 30 Repetitions (vi) Lunges Two Sets of 10 Repetitions (vii) Swimming Should know fundamentals of swimming

(g) (i) The Engg Streams offered by three CTWs are as follows :- 11 (aa) CTW CME, Pune - Civil & Mech Engg. (ab) CTW MCTE, Mhow - Telecom & IT Engg. (Dual Degree) (ac) CTW MCEME Secunderabad - Elect & Mech Engg. (ii) Parent arm for each CTW is as follows :- (aa) CTW CME, Pune - Corps of Engineers (ab) CTW MCTE, Mhow - Corps of Signals (ac) CTW, MCEME Secunderabad - Corps of Electronics & Mechanical Engineers

(h) The finally selected candidates will execute all the Bonds/Certificates as prescribed for the Regular Cadets of NDA entry under AI 53/78.

(i) Candidate will not have any objection in the event of final selection, on allotment of any Arm/Service in the interest of the organisation.