State to train candidates for SSB

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 17

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar approved a new incentive scheme, Haryana Rashtra Prahari Protsahan Yojana, for training prospective candidates to appear before the Service Selection Board (SSB) for selection as commissioned officers in armed forces through the NCC Special Entry Scheme.

Stating this here yesterday, a spokesperson said 174 vacancies for NCC (C) certificate holders were available every year for commissioning into the armed forces as officers. These included, in the Army wing, 100 vacancies at Officer Training Academy (OTA) Chennai, 50 vacancies at Indian Military Academy (IMA), Dehradun, eight vacancies for women at OTA Chennai. Similarly, four vacancies are available in Indian Air Force (IAF) and 12 vacancies in the Navy.

The spokesperson said under the scheme, two SSB coaching hubs, one in Delhi and the other in Chandigarh, would facilitate the training of the cadets. It would be selected by a board comprising three officers from the armed forces and one officer from the state government. While the Chandigarh hub would be managed by the NCC Group Headquarter at Ambala, the Delhi hub would be managed by the Group Headquarter at Rohtak.

He said the prospective cadets selected by the board would be divided into two groups and 14 days training would be imparted each year in January and July, respectively. The approved list of coaching centres for the hubs would be provided by the Additional Director General, NCC Directorate, Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Union Territory (UT) Chandigarh in consultation with the Group Commander NCC Ambala and Rohtak, he mainatined.

He said the anticipated cost of the SSB training for each cadet would be about Rs15,000, which includes lodging and boarding for the fortnight-long training.

This would be directly paid to the coaching hubs by the Haryana Higher Education Department on the completion of the training on the certification by the NCC Headquarters.

He said as about 80 to 100 cadets were likely to undertake the training twice a year, an expenditure of about Rs24 lakh to Rs30 lakh would be incurred.