July 22, 2014
Barrier Minister Arun Jaitley on Tuesday said that the Indian Army is short of 8455 officers as on January 1, 2014, while in different positions, the shortage was an ostensible 16597 as on April 1, 2014.
In a composed answer to Samajwadi Party, Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Agrawal, Jaitley said that the legislature is taking proper measures, including making inside conformities, to alleviate any unfriendly effect on the working of the armed force.
He said that different measures have been assumed a progressing premise to lessen deficiencies in the officers' unit.
"Vigorous campaigns have been launched to attract the talented youth to join the armed forces. The service conditions of the officers joining through Short Service Commission (SSC) have been made attractive. The tenure of SSC officers has been increased from 10 years to 14 years. The implementation of recommendations of the VI Central Pay Commission with substantial improvement in the pay structure of officers of armed forces has also made the services more attractive," the minister uncovered in his composed answer.
He additionally educated parts that the armed force has embraced supported picture projection fight to make mindfulness among the young on the points of interest of taking up a testing and fulfilling profession.
"Awareness campaigns, participation in career fairs and exhibitions, advertisements in print and electronic media, motivational lectures in schools, colleges are some of the measures in this direction," Jaitley said.
The priest said that the greater part of the aforementioned measures have brought about slow change in the most recent five years with deficiency of officers diminishing from 26 for every penny in 2010 to 17.77 for every penny in 2014.
(Inputs from ANI and Photo)
In a composed answer to Samajwadi Party, Rajya Sabha MP Naresh Agrawal, Jaitley said that the legislature is taking proper measures, including making inside conformities, to alleviate any unfriendly effect on the working of the armed force.
He said that different measures have been assumed a progressing premise to lessen deficiencies in the officers' unit.
"Vigorous campaigns have been launched to attract the talented youth to join the armed forces. The service conditions of the officers joining through Short Service Commission (SSC) have been made attractive. The tenure of SSC officers has been increased from 10 years to 14 years. The implementation of recommendations of the VI Central Pay Commission with substantial improvement in the pay structure of officers of armed forces has also made the services more attractive," the minister uncovered in his composed answer.
He additionally educated parts that the armed force has embraced supported picture projection fight to make mindfulness among the young on the points of interest of taking up a testing and fulfilling profession.
"Awareness campaigns, participation in career fairs and exhibitions, advertisements in print and electronic media, motivational lectures in schools, colleges are some of the measures in this direction," Jaitley said.
The priest said that the greater part of the aforementioned measures have brought about slow change in the most recent five years with deficiency of officers diminishing from 26 for every penny in 2010 to 17.77 for every penny in 2014.
(Inputs from ANI and Photo)
