NEW DELHI: There is a scarcity of greater than 11,000 officers within the Indian Army, Air Force and Navy of which greater than half are within the Army, officers within the Defence Ministry have mentioned. According to the Defence Ministry, there’s a scarcity of officers of the rank of Major and Captain. At the identical time, the Indian Air Force is in need of necessary officers just like the Squadron Leader and Flight Lieutenant. Similarly, there’s a scarcity of officers within the Indian Navy, together with officers of the rank of Lieutenant Commander.
Regarding these vacant posts, the Ministry of Defence says that there was low recruitment of officers in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the Defence Ministry, as a result of low recruitment of officers within the Covid-19 interval, there was a scarcity of 11,266 Major and Captain and equal ranks and different rank officers within the Indian Air Force and the Navy additionally.
The Ministry of Defence knowledgeable Parliament in writing that the posts of greater than 6,800 officers are mendacity vacant within the Indian Army. The Army is in need of 2,094 Major-level officers and 4,734 Captain-level officers. On the opposite hand, there’s a scarcity of 881 Squadron Leaders and 940 Flight Lieutenants within the Indian Air Force.
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The Navy has a shortfall of two,617 officers of the rank of Lieutenant Commander and under ranks. According to Minister of State for Defence Ajay Bhatt, there was an influence on the appointment of officers within the Air Force, Navy and the Army in the course of the pandemic interval. Apart from this, the Ministry of Defence says that much less recruitment in auxiliary cadres like ‘Short Service Commission’ (SSC) can also be chargeable for this scarcity of officers. Significantly, the recruitment of officers within the defence forces is finished by a number of mediums. One of them is thru SSC, the place cadets go out after 11 months of coaching to grow to be officers and serve within the defence forces for a hard and fast time period of 10 to 14 years.
The Defence Ministry says it’s not taking a look at any different technique like redeployment of officers to those posts to bridge the shortfall, however is trying to make ‘quick service’ entry within the Army extra engaging. However, one optimistic factor amid the emptiness in defence forces posts is that the Ministry of Defence has began the recruitment of ladies candidates within the National Defence Academy (NDA) from the 12 months 2022. From the 12 months 2022 until now, 57 ladies cadets have been recruited by NDA.
Haryana leads within the variety of NDA ladies cadets. According to the Defence Ministry, all of the 57 vacancies of ladies cadets in NDA are totally subscribed. Of these, the utmost variety of 19 feminine cadets are from Haryana adopted by Uttar Pradesh (12). According to the Defence Ministry, three ladies cadets every have been recruited from Delhi, Jammu & Kashmir and Punjab and two every from Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir. A complete of 4 ladies cadets from Kerala had been recruited within the Army by NDA, of which one has resigned.
