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NDA exam on 21st August

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:38:04 +0000

By FNS
UPSC has invited application from eligible candidates for National Defence Academy and Naval Academy. The examination for course commencing from June 2012 will be conducted on 21st August at over 32 examination centres in the various parts of the country including Delhi.

Minimum educational qualification required for the Army wing of the NDA is 10+2 in any stream while for Air Force, Navy and Naval Academy it is 10+2 with Physics and Mathematics.

The selection is done on the three tier examination system i.e. Written, SSB and Medical Test. Candidates, qualified in written test, are called for SSB test. SSB is multiple test comprises of physical as well as psychological and metal ability test including GD and interview. Selected candidates will have to appear for medical fitness test too.

UPSC has made provision of negative marking too in case of wrong answers marked by the candidates in the written test.

Last date of the submission of application is 9th May. Interested candidates may visit UPSC’s website for more detail.

Bihar votes: 53% polling in IInd phase

Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:53:10 +0000

About 53 percent voting has been recorded in IInd phase of polling in Bihar. The Election Commission said 52.55 percent voting was recorded in the second phase of the Bihar assembly elections. According to Commission the polling was peaceful except some stray incidents of Maoist attacks.

Nearly five million voted peacefully in 45 constituencies in the second round of assembly elections. Two Maoist attacks failed to deter people from exercise of the democratic rights.
To pick a new 243-seat house, around half of the 9.8 million eligible to vote Sunday had exercised their franchise by the time balloting ended at 5 p.m., election officials said.

Additional Director General of Police P.K. Thakur said “It passed off peacefully,” he said. Maoists tried to disrupt the polling in two places in the Runni Saidpur constituency of Sitamarhi.

The rebels abducted four polling officials but released them within an hour, a police officer said. Thakur said the Maoists also tried to ransack another polling booth and burn documents in the same area.

Long queues of men and women were witnessed outside most polling stations in the districts of Muzaffarpur, Darbhanga, Samastipur, Motihari, Sheohar and Sitamarhi, where elections were scheduled. The voting began at 7 a.m. amid tight security and “passed off peacefully. It is a big relief,” Bihar police chief Neelmani said.

The central paramilitary forces manned 85 percent of the polling booths. The Special Task Force used helicopters for air surveillance. The second phase of voting decided the fate of 623 candidates. Most of the 9,952 polling booths were in rural areas.

The stakes were high for Nitish Kumar as well as for Lalu Prasad and Lok Janshakti Party (LJP) leader Ram Vilas Paswan. The Congress, fighting the election on its own, is eying to make its presence felt in the Tirhut-Mithilanchal belt, which is a known RJD-LJP bastion.
The first round of Bihar elections took place Oct 21. Four more rounds of polling will take place Oct 28, Nov 1, 9 and 20.

(with agency inputs)

UPSC announced NDA result

Fri, 28 May 2010 14:52:44 +0000

The Union Public Service Commission has announced the results of National Defence Academy & Naval Academy Exam (II) 2009 on the basis of the results of written examination held by UPSC in August 2009 and the interviews held by the Services Selection Board of the Ministry of Defence. The examination was held for admission to the Army, Navy and Air Force Wings of National Defence Academy for the 124th Course and Naval Academy 10+2 (Executive Branch) for 44th Course commencing from 30th June, 2010.

The list contains names of 694 candidates. There are some common candidates in the three lists for Army/Navy, Air Force and Naval Academy. The total number of such candidates in the three lists is 337. The number of vacancies as intimated by the Government of India is 335 (195 for the Army, 039 for the Navy, 066 for the Air Force and 035 for the Naval Academy (Executive Branch).

The result of Medical Examination of candidates has not been taken into account in preparing the merit list.

Source: PIB

Govt. plans another Officers Training Academy for defence services

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:05:15 +0000

The government is considering to open another Officers Training Academy (OTA) to fill the available vacancies of Army officers. The OTA provides training to those candidates who are selected for the Short Service Commission (SSC) in the armed forces through Combined Defence Services (CDS) examination, conducted by UPSC.
Though the National Defence Academy has attracted bigger number of candidates than the number of seats available in the NDA but on the contrary, OTA has witnessed a downfall in the number of candidates against the available number of seat. The data, made available by the Ministry of Defence, says that except 2008 the NDA has attracted more candidates against its seat 390. In 2009 it has reached to 500 against 390. But OTA has been getting lesser candidates against available seats in the Academy in the last four years. In 2009, only 315 candidates joined the OTA against the available 700 seats. This is just 45% of the total number of available seats in the Academy.
According to the Defence Minister A K Antony government has launched several measures to make Short Service Commission popular among the youth. The Defence Ministry has also planned to go to the universities and various institutions to attract target youths for the SSC.

UPSC announces NDA result

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:10:33 +0000

Result of National Defence Academy (NDA) & Naval Academy Exam (NA) 2009 has announced today. UPSC has announced the result on the basis of the results of written examination in April 2009 and interview held by Services Selection Board (SSB). The result include names of 463 candidates against 195 vacancies in Army, 39 in Navy and 66 in Air force and 35 for Naval Academy. The selected candidates will join 123rd course in NDA and 43rd batch of NA started from 30th December 2009.
Candidates may call these numbers 011-23385271, 011-23381125 and 011-23098543 for further information. They can also visit www.pib.nic.in or www.upsc.gov.in for result .