Indian Army likely to enrol JCOs directly to overcome shortage of officers
Indian Army likely to enrol JCOs directly to overcome shortage of officers
JCOs are currently enrolled as jawans and few of them are promoted to officers over a period of time based on their performance and on their ability to clear promotion examinations.
Amrita Nayak Dutta 5 April, 2021 8:45 am IST Text Size:
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New Delhi: The Indian Army is discussing a proposal to directly enrol Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs) in all arms of the service to address the shortage of nearly 14,000 officers.
JCOs a link between the officers and other ranks in the Indian Army are currently enrolled as jawans and few of them get promoted to officers over a period of time based on their performance and on their ability to clear promotion examinations.
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NEW DELHI: The Army says it proactively handed over the case involving bribes and irregularities in the selection of officers to the CBI to ensure such corruption was weeded out from within the 13-lakh force.
The CBI has lodged an FIR against 17 Army personnel, including six Lt-Colonels, two Majors and two cadets of the Officers’ Training Academy (Chennai), as well as six civilians for being allegedly involved in the scam at the Services Selection Board (SSB) centre at Kapurthala in Punjab and elsewhere.
“The personnel who have acted against our ethos and reputation will be taken to task. The Army is committed to weed out corruption from within the organisation,” said a senior officer.