Indian Army GD (General Duty) Recruitment is conducted by the organization Indian Army for the aspirants of General Duty in the Indian Army. Indian Army GD is a part of the Indian Army’s General Duty section. In this section, different types of ground soldiers exist such as fighting troops, riflemen, gunners, drivers, land defence forces, operators, etc. Apart from this posts in Army Medical Corps (AMC), Army Service Corps (ASC), Ordinance, etc. are considered under the Indian Army General Duty Section. In this article we will go through the eligibility criteria, education qualification, age limit and selection process of Army GD.

The eligible candidates can apply for this opening through online mode however the recruitment exam is conducted in offline mode through various rounds of selection. Join India’s best defence coaching institute, Katara Academy, the best coaching institute based in Uttar Pradesh, for the best preparation of Army GD as well as various other defence and government exams also.

Eligibility Criteria

Nationality: Indian

• All the candidates possessing the nationality of Bhutan and Nepal can apply for the GD in the Indian Army.
• The Tibetan refugee who are settled permanently in India before January 1, 2023, are also eligible to apply
• The candidates who have migrated from Sri Lanka and East African Countries of Uganda, Pakistan, Kenya, Burma the United Republic of Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, Zaire and Ethiopia, and Vietnam and are permanently settled in the country India can also apply to join the Indian Army.
•  The candidates who are not from India originally must have a certificate of nationality issued by the Government of India. The aspirants belonging to Nepal or Gorkha are exempted from this and they are not necessarily required to have a nationality certificate.

Age Limit

The required age limit for Army GD recruitment is 17.5 years to 23 years. The official notification regarding the date of birth is released by the recruitment body. The age of the candidate should fall between these dates of birth.

Educational Qualification

• The candidates must have at least a minimum educational qualification of 10th or matriculation passed with an aggregate of 45% and 33% in all the respective subjects from a recognized board.
• The best of the 5 subjects is taken into consideration and an individual must have at least a minimum score of 33 marks out of 100 marks in each subject and a total of 45% in all.

Marital Status

The marital status of the candidate should be Unmarried or single to meet the eligibility criteria of this recruitment of Indian Army.

Physical Requirements

The Indian Army needs fit candidates to fulfill the necessity of their duty. Therefore, there is a certain measurement set by the Army for the physical requirement of the candidates as mentioned below:

• Height – The height factor varies from region to region and the candidates from Gorkha get relaxation as well.
• Chest – The minimum chest required is 77cm, and 5cm after the expansion.
• Weight – This criterion should be in a defined proportion to height and age.

Selection Process

The selection Process of this exam includes 3 stages, which are Physical Fitness Test, Medical Test and Written Test.

Indian Army GD Syllabus

The written test combines the subjects Mathematics, General Science and General Knowledge. The syllabus is as following:

General Knowledge – Abbreviations (National and International), Sports (National and International), Awards & Prizes (National awards, Gallantry awards, Nobel prizes), History (Important dates & battles in Indian and World History and Landmarks of Indian History, national movement), Geography (Solar System, Space exploration, The Earth, Principal Peaks, Deserts, Rivers, Lakes and famous Waterfalls, Geographical Tallest, Biggest, and Longest, etc.), Terminology (Geographical terms, Economic terms, Astronomical terms, Legal terms, and Misc terms), Other topics (UNO, Indian Armed Forces, Indian Towns, States, and UTs, Institutions and research stations, International space stations and festivals of India and world, Indian News Agencies and Dailies, Continents and Sub Continent, Inventions and Discoveries, Environment, The Constitution of India, Religious Communities and Principal Languages, National and International Days, International Organizations, Books and Authors, The world of plants and animals, Current Affairs and “Who`s Who”.)

General Science – Human Body (Food and nutrition, disease and prevention, vitamins and their uses), Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Name of diseases and terms used in medical science, Scientific Terms.

Mathematics – Arithmetic (Unitary method, time, work and distance, simple interest, numbers, HCF, LCF, Decimal, fraction, square roots, percentage, average, ratio and proportion, partnership, profit, and loss.), Algebra (Basic operations and factorization, HCF and LCM, quadratic equations), Geometry (Lines and angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, and parallelograms and circles), Mensuration (Area and perimeters of squares, rectangles, parallelograms and circles, volume and surface area of cube, cuboids, cone, cylinders, and sphere)

Result:

The result of the Indian Army GD will release in online mode through the official website.

Those candidates who will score more than cut-off marks will be selected for recruitment.

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