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The Army has an Officers’ Training Academy (OTA) in Gaya for commissioning short service officers, apart from the older OTA in Chennai, and the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun.
The Army has an Officers’ Training Academy (OTA) in Gaya for commissioning short service officers, apart from the older OTA in Chennai, and the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun.
The Army is 18 per cent short of its sanctioned strength of officers, and it is projected to take until 2021 to bring the shortfall down to 12 per cent. The current situation, is, however, an improvement on the situation in 2010, when the Army was 26 per cent short of its sanctioned strength of officers.
The shortage of officers has been a longstanding problem, to overcome which the government has over the last two decades commissioned advertising campaigns that have sought to attract urban youth to the Army. The Sixth Pay Commission raised salaries significantly, and further raises are expected with the Seventh Pay Commission next year. But these measures have yielded only limited results.
The Defence Minister told Lok Sabha in July that the major reasons for the shortage were increases in authorised strength due to accretions in force levels from time to time, and availability of attractive alternative career avenues. Other reasons cited by the Minister included stringent selection criteria for officers and difficult service conditions, and the perception that the job involves high levels of personal physical risk.
There are other reasons — including the lack of adequate training capacities for officer cadets, which constrains the intake into the Army every year. This is even after the increase in capacity at the tri-Service National Defence Academy at Khadakwasla near Pune.
Defence News - Why the Indian Army is short of officers and what’s being done
The Army has an Officers’ Training Academy (OTA) in Gaya for commissioning short service officers, apart from the older OTA in Chennai, and the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun.
The Army is 18 per cent short of its sanctioned strength of officers, and it is projected to take until 2021 to bring the shortfall down to 12 per cent. The current situation, is, however, an improvement on the situation in 2010, when the Army was 26 per cent short of its sanctioned strength of officers.
The shortage of officers has been a longstanding problem, to overcome which the government has over the last two decades commissioned advertising campaigns that have sought to attract urban youth to the Army. The Sixth Pay Commission raised salaries significantly, and further raises are expected with the Seventh Pay Commission next year. But these measures have yielded only limited results.
The Defence Minister told Lok Sabha in July that the major reasons for the shortage were increases in authorised strength due to accretions in force levels from time to time, and availability of attractive alternative career avenues. Other reasons cited by the Minister included stringent selection criteria for officers and difficult service conditions, and the perception that the job involves high levels of personal physical risk.
There are other reasons — including the lack of adequate training capacities for officer cadets, which constrains the intake into the Army every year. This is even after the increase in capacity at the tri-Service National Defence Academy at Khadakwasla near Pune.
Defence News - Why the Indian Army is short of officers and what’s being done
