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Amid growing unemployment, 3000 aspirants appear for Agniveer written test from Kashmir division and Ladakh

By News Desk

November 14, 2022

About 3000 defence job aspirants participated in the common entrance examination or written test for a range of categories from districts of Srinagar, Anantnag, Baramulla, Pulwama, Badgam, Kupwara, Shopian, Ganderbal, Bandipora and Kulgam from UT of Jammu & Kashmir and districts of Kargil and Leh from UT of Ladakh, at Army Public School, Badami Bagh Cantonment, Srinagar.

The posts, include Agniveer General Duty, Agniveer Technical, Agniveer Clerk/Store Keeper Technical and Agniveer Tradesmen.

These aspirants appeared in the examination after they cleared the physical medical tests during the recruitment rally held at Haiderbeig, Pattan from September 17-30.

Candidates appeared in the examination under the prescribed rules in the school complex arranged by Chinar Corps.

The Indian Army informed that the result of the written examination will be declared after 14 days and will be uploaded on the official website www.joinindianarmy.nic.in.

“No separate letter will be sent to any candidate. Candidates are required to check the result and report to Army Recruiting Office, Srinagar on third day after declaration of results for further documentation,” an official said.

On declaration of CEE result, collection of original documents from selected candidates and verification of documents with concerned J& K Govt authorities will be undertaken by Army Recruiting Office Srinagar.

Selected candidates will be required to report for training by December 31, 2022.

The monthly unemployment recorded in the month of October stands at 22.4 per cent, which is the third highest in India. In August, the monthly unemployment, as per CMIE had risen to 32.8 which was the highest for several years.