Three more ways to get into IIT

GATE Office conducts GATE, JMET, and CEED examinations for admission to postgraduate programmes

  

The Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is an all-India examination administered and conducted in eight zones across the country jointly by the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and seven Indian Institutes of Technology on behalf of the National Coordinating Board - GATE, Department of Education, Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD), Government of India. Admission to post graduate programmes with MHRD and some other government scholarship/assistantship at engineering colleges/institutes in the country are open to those who qualify through GATE.

Joint Management Entrance Test (JMET) is the first step in the process of admission to the TWO YEAR FULL TIME Postgraduate Degree Programmes in Management offered by IITs.

Common Entrance Examination for Design (CEED) is an all India examination conducted by IIT Bombay, on behalf of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. CEED is a qualifying examination for Admission to Master of Design (M.Des.) Programmes at IISc Bangalore, IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati and IIT Kanpur, and Ph.D. Programmes in Design in some Institutes.

Faster websites more reliable data

Today, visiting almost any major website — checking your Facebook news feed, looking for books on Amazon, bidding for merchandise on eBay — involves querying a database. But the databases that these sites maintain are enormous, and searching them anew every time a new user logs on would be painfully time consuming. To serve up data in a timely fashion, most big sites use a technique called caching. Their servers keep local copies of their most frequently accessed data, which they can send to users without searching the database.

But caching has an obvious problem: If any of the data in the database changes, the cached copies have to change too; moreover, any cached data that are in any way dependent on the changed data also have to change. Tracking such data dependencies is a nightmare for programmers, but even when they do their jobs well, problems can arise. For instance, says Dan Ports, a graduate student in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, suppose that someone is bidding on an item on eBay. The names of the bidders could be cached in one place, the value of their bids in another. Making a new bid updates the database, but as that update propagates through the network of servers, it could reach the value cache before it reaches the name cache. The bidder would see someone else’s name next to her bid and think she’d been beaten to the punch. “They might see their own bid attributed to somebody else,” Ports says, “and wind up in a bidding war with themselves.”

MIT researchers have developed a new caching system that eliminates this type of asymmetric data retrieval while also making database caches much easier to program. Led by Ports and his thesis advisor, Institute Professor Barbara Liskov, who won the 2008 Turing Award, the highest award in computer science, the research also involves associate professor Sam Madden, PhD student Austin Clements, and former master’s student Irene Zhang. Ports presented the system on Oct. 5 at the USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation in Vancouver.

Transact locally

Unlike existing database caching systems, Ports and Liskov’s can handle what computer scientists call transactions. A transaction is a set of computations that are treated as a block: None of them will be performed unless all of them are performed. “Suppose that you’re making a plane reservation, and it has two legs,” says Liskov. “You’re not interested in getting one of them and not the other. If you run this as a transaction, then the underlying system will guarantee that you get either both of them or neither of them. And it does this regardless of whether there are other concurrent accesses, or other users are trying to get seats on those flights, or there are machine failures, and so forth. Transactions are a well-understood technique in computer science to achieve this kind of functionality.” Indeed, it’s the idea of transactions that gives the new system its name: TxCache, where “Tx” is a shorthand for “transaction.”

TxCache also makes it easier for programmers to manage caches. “Existing caches have the approach that they just make this cache and tell the programmer, ‘Here’s a cache: You can put stuff in it if you want; you can get stuff out of it if you want,’” says Ports. “But figuring out how to do that is entirely up to you.” TxCache, however, recognizes that a computer program already implicitly defines the relationships between stored data. For instance, a line of code might say that Z = X + Y, which is an instruction to look up X, look up Y, and store their sum as Z. With TxCache, the programmer would simply specify that that line of code — Z = X + Y — should be cached, and the system would automatically ensure that, whenever any one of those variables changed, the cached copies of the other two would be updated, everywhere. And, of course, it can perform the same type of maintenance with more complicated data dependencies, represented by more complicated functions.

Bean counting

According to Liskov, the key to getting TxCache to work was “a lot of bookkeeping.” The system has to track what data are cached where, and which data depend on each other. Indeed, Liskov says, it was the fear that that bookkeeping would chew up too many computing cycles that dissuaded the designers of existing caching systems from supporting transactions. But, she explains, updating the caches is necessary only when data in the database change. Modifying the data is a labor-intensive operation; the bookkeeping steps are comparatively simple. “Yes, we are doing more work, but proportionally it’s very small,” Liskov says. “It’s on the order of 5 to 7 percent.” In the researchers’ experiments, websites were more than five times as fast when running TxCache as they were without it.

“The trouble with large-scale services like Bing and Amazon and Google and the like is that they operate at such a high level of scalability,” says Solom Heddaya, a partner at Microsoft and infrastructure architect for Bing, Microsoft’s search engine. “On a single request from the user searching for something, there are many, many applications that get invoked in real time, and they together will use tens of thousands of servers.” On that scale, Heddaya says, some kind of caching system is necessary. But, he says, “until this paper came along, people building these systems said, ‘Hey, we will shift the burden to the programmer of the application. We will give you the convenience of caching, so that we bring the data closer to where the computation is, but we will make you worry about whether the cache has the right data.”

Heddaya cautions that, unlike some other caching systems, the MIT researchers’ offers significant performance improvements only for sites where reading operations — looking up data in the database — greatly outnumber writing operations — updating data in the databases. But according to Ports, “Adding support for using caching during read/write transactions is one of the things we're thinking about now. There aren't any major technical obstacles to doing so: It's mainly a question of how we can do so without introducing unexpected effects that make life more difficult for users and programmers.”

(Src: Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office)

BEL Bharat Electronics Limited

HISTORY

Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) was set up at Bangalore, India, by the Government of India under the Ministry of Defence in 1954 to meet the specialised electronic needs of the Indian defence services. Over the years, it has grown into a multi-product, multi-technology, multi-unit company serving the needs of customers in diverse fields in India and abroad . BEL is among an elite group of public sector undertakings which have been conferred the Navratna status by the Government of India.

The growth and diversification of BEL over the years mirrors the advances in the electronics technology, with which BEL has kept pace. Starting with the manufacture of a few communication equipment in 1956, BEL went on to produce Receiving Valves in 1961, Germanium Semiconductors in 1962 and Radio Transmitters for AIR in 1964.

In 1966, BEL set up a Radar manufacturing facility for the Army and in-house R&D, which has been nurtured over the years. Manufacture of Transmitting Tubes, Silicon Devices and Integrated Circuits started in 1967. The PCB manufacturing facility was established in 1968.

In 1970, manufacture of Black & White TV Picture Tube, X-ray Tube and Microwave Tubes started. The following year, facilities for manufacture of Integrated Circuits and Hybrid Micro Circuits were set up. 1972 saw BEL manufacturing TV Transmitters for Doordarshan. The following year, manufacture of Frigate Radars for the Navy began.

Under the government's policy of decentralization and due to strategic reasons, BEL ventured to set up new Units at various places. The second Unit of BEL was set up at Ghaziabad in 1974 to manufacture Radars and Tropo communication equipment for the Indian Air Force. The third Unit was established at Pune in 1979 to manufacture Image Converter and Image Intensifier Tubes.

In 1980, BEL's first overseas office was set up at New York for procurement of components and materials.

In 1981, a manufacturing facility for Magnesium Manganese Dioxide batteries was set up at the Pune Unit. The Space Electronic Division was set up at Bangalore to support the satellite programme in 1982. The same year saw BEL achieve a turnover of Rs.100 crores.

In 1983, an ailing Andhra Scientific Company (ASCO) was taken over by BEL as the fourth manufacturing Unit at Machilipatnam. In 1985, the fifth Unit was set up in Chennai for supply of Tank Electronics, with proximity to HVF, Avadi. The sixth Unit was set up at Panchkula the same year to manufacture Military Communication equipment. 1985 also saw BEL manufacturing on a large scale Low Power TV Transmitters and TVROs for the expansion of Doordarshan's coverage.

1986 witnessed the setting up of the seventh Unit at Kotdwara to manufacture Switching Equipment, the eighth Unit to manufacture TV Glass Shell at Taloja (Navi Mumbai) and the ninth Unit at Hyderabad to manufacture Electronic Warfare Equipment.

In 1987, a separate Naval Equipment Division was set up at Bangalore to give greater focus to Naval projects. The first Central Research Laboratory was established at Bangalore in 1988 to focus on futuristic R&D.

1989 saw the manufacture of Telecom Switching and Transmission Systems as also the setting up of the Mass Manufacturing Facility in Bangalore and the manufacture of the first batch of 75,000 Electronic Voting Machines.

The agreement for setting up BEL's first Joint Venture Company, BE DELFT, with M/s Delft of Holland was signed in 1990. Recently this became a subsidiary of BEL with the exit of the foreign partner and has been renamed BEL Optronic Devices Limited.

The second Central Research Laboratory was established at Ghaziabad in 1992. The first disinvestment (20%) and listing of the Company's shares in Bangalore and Mumbai Stock Exchanges took place the same year.

BEL Units obtained ISO 9000 certification in 1993-94. The second disinvestment (4.14%) took place in 1994. In 1996, BEL achieved Rs.1,000 crores turnover.

In 1997, GE BEL, the Joint Venture Company with M/s GE, USA, was formed. In 1998, BEL set up its second overseas office at Singapore to source components from South East Asia.

The year 2000 saw the Bangalore Unit, which had grown very large, being reorganized into Strategic Business Units (SBUs). There are seven SBUs in Bangalore Unit. The same year, BEL shares were listed in the National Stock Exchange.

In 2002, BEL became the first defence PSU to get operational Mini Ratna Category I status. In June 2007, BEL was conferred the prestigious Navratna status based on its consistent performance.

During 2008-09, BEL recorded a turnover of Rs.4624 crores.



src: bel-india.com

Kapil sibal

Human Resource Developement Minister

Wonder carbon pioneers win Physics Nobel

Russian born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov were awarded the Nobel Physics Prize for their pioneering work on GRAPHENE - touted as wonderful material of 21st century.
 
Both laureates began their career as physicists in Russia but now work at the university of Manchester in Britain.
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Graphene transistors in theory be cake to run at faster speeds and cope with higher temperatures than today's computer chips.

Transparency means it could potentially be used in touch screens n even solar cells..... Also for next gen satellites, planes, cars..

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I Obtained Ph.D from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in 1993 and has been Post Doctoral Research fellow at Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan during 1992-1996.

I am a member of IEEE Photonics and IEEE Society.

My extra interests include Photonics Education in India, Students activities in "IEEE Bangalore Section".

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Incentives given by Government to NCC

INCENTIVES GIVEN BY THE GOVERNMENT OF UP TO NCC CADETS

Preference:- NCC cadets are given preferences in recruitment in State Government Services.
Bonus Marks:- Awarded for admission in Graduate law and B.Ed. courses.
Reservation:- 1% Horizontal Reservation in Medical colleges for NCC C certificate holders with minimum B grading. 1% Reservation in All Educational Institutions for NCC Certificate holders.

 ARMY
6-4 vacancies reserved in IMA, DEHRADUN, 100 IN OFFICERS ACADEMY (OTC) CHENNAI FOR SSC NON TECHNICAL NO UPSC EXAM ONLY SSB

NAVY
6 Vacancies PER COURSE NO UPSC EXAM ONLY SSB

IAF
10% of vacancies Indain Air Force.
RESERVED FOR ALL COURSES INCLUDING FLYING TRAINING COURSES. NO UPSC EXAM. ONLY SSB


OTHERS
 * BONUS MARKS ARE AWARDED TO NCC C CERTIFICATE HOLDERS FOR RECRUITMENT IN DEPARTMENT OF TELECOMMUNICATION.

   * GENERAL ORDER ISSUED BY STATE GOVERNMENT FOR GIVING PREFERENCE TO NCC CADETS IN MATTERS OF RECRUITMENT IN STATE GOVERNMENT AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.

    * SOME INDUSTRIES GIVE PREFERENCE TO NCC C CERTIFICATE HOLDERS FOR VARIOUS JOBS.

    * 5-10 Percent BONUS MARKS ARE AWARDED FOR RECRUITMENT IN ARMY/NAVY/AIR FORCE TO NCC C CERTIFICATE HOLDERS.

    * 2-10 PERCENT BONUS MARKS ARE AWARDED TO NCC C CERTIFICATE HOLDERS FOR RECRUITMENT IN BSF, CRDF, CISF, COAST, GUARDS, ITBP, ETC.

Others: 
  1. The Jet Air Corporation Ltd due weightage will be given for employment whenever any NCC cadet appears for the interview.

   2. Indian already giving preferences to the NCC B & C certificate holders for appointment in the security section.

   3. Hindustan Shipyard Ltd.For direct recruitment in group CSD posts. Weightage of terms of marks being given for extra curricular activities which include NCC for staff posts.

   4. Coal Indian Ltd.Weightage for NCC Certificates is given for JD (2 marks) and SD ( 4 marks) at the time of selection of candidates.

   5. National Hydrolelectric Power:Due weightage will be given to qualified candidates who are NCC B & C certificate holders while filing up the appropriate posts through direct recruitment.

   6. Pawan Hans Ltd.NCC candidates who have passed B & C certificate of NCC will be given preference
Indian Oil Corp. Ltd.For fire fighting operator in Group C NCC C certificate has been prescribed as desirable

7. qualification. Morever at the time of interview for other group C Posts, candidates possessing NCC certificates are given due weightage under the category of extra curricular activities.

   8. National Building Const. Corporation Ltd.-Persons having NCC certificate are given due weightage.

   9. The National small industries Corp. Ltd.NCC B & C certificate holders are preferred for recruitment to groupB & C Posts.

Sahara India- Many appointments are made based wholly on NCC C certificate as
qualification.

Career in NCC

The National Cadet Corps came into existence on 16 July 1948, under the 31st NCC Act of 1948,
based on the recommendation of Pundit H Kunzru Committee. NCC was started with strength of
38,500 Boys Cadets.

 Commission of Cadets in Armed Forces as Officers
*ARMY
NCC ‘C’ Certificate holders in age group 19-25 years are required to compete in UPSC examination
for commission though IMA (Indian Military Academy) or OTA (Officers Training Academy).
32 Vacancies are reserved in regular course of IMA for ‘C’ Certificate holders] irrespective of
position in merit, subject of passing UPSC examination and clearing SSB interview.

NCC Special Entry Scheme for SD Wings graduates in OTA in group 19-25 years with 50% marks,
through DDG of states for direct interview (SSB) every year. The Cadets are exempted from CDS
examination conducted by UPSC. The Cadets should have ‘A’ or ‘B’ grade in ‘C’ certificate
examination.

*NAVY
Upto nine vacancies per course for commission in Navy are reserved for NCC ‘C” certificate pass
graduate cadets with B.Sc (Physics & Maths) or BE in the age group of 19 to 24 years and passed
by SSB exempted from CDS examination of UPSC.

*AIR FORCE
Pilots Course:- 10% vacancies reserved in each branch for NCC ‘C” Certificate holders. Not
processed through UPSC examination.

Girl cadets also can get different jobs. Girl cadets may choose career as Army Officers, Whole Time
Lady Officers and Girls Cadet Instructors (GCIs).

NCC cadets can get a good job more easily as compared to others. Private and Public Sectors give
preference to the holders of ‘A’,’B’ &’C’ certificates. Many reputed companies like Reliance Group,
Ambuja Group, Tata, Birla, Infosys and other MNC prefer NCC Cadets for different jobs. In this
way NCC improves the status of the cadets in job market and helps them in achieving the aim of
their life.

One can easily identify the NCC cadets in a job because an NCC cadet looks
confident, disciplined, helpful and easily accepts the additional responsibilities.
 
Girls Cadets were added in the Army Wing in 1949, Air Wing in 1950 and
Naval Wing in 1952. In the initial stages, NCC was confined mainly to the urban areas. Today NCC
has spread to every corner of the country, having more than 13 lakhs Cadets. The National Cadet
Corps, which has both Boys and Girls as cadets, has the basic aim of developing the character
qualities in the youth to make them good citizens of the society and worthy leaders of the future in
every walk of life.

The National Cadet Corps is the only organization of its kind, which imparts Leadership,
Discipline, Integration, Adventure, Military, Physical and Community Development training to over
13 lakhs youth of the country. The Youth of the country are the future of India. NCC is the
organisation to install the values of “Unity and Discipline”- the Motto of the National Cadet Corps.

The NCC has a total of 765 units in India which encompasses 586 districts in the country,

covering 6985 schools and 5159 colleges.

The NCC is staffed by 1697 Armed Forces Officers, 11093 junior and non-commissioned
Officers of the Defence Forces, 34 Whole Time Lady Officers and 10351 Associate NCC Officers ie
college professors and school teachers. In all, NCC has 92 Group Headquarters, 647 Army Wing
Units, 58 Naval Wing Units and 58 Air Wing Units. For training of the staff, it has an Officers
Training Academy at Kamptee and Women Officers Training Academy at Gwalior. NCC is funded
by the Central Govt. and the respective State Govts. The Central Advisory Committee is headed by
Defence Minister and the State Advisory Committee give impetus to the activities in NCC.
Categories in NCC.

There are two divison/wing in NCC- Junior Division/Junior Wing at school level & Senior
Division/Junior Wing at both school & college level. NCC cadet must be a student of either a school
or college. ‘A’,’B’ &’C’ certificates are given to cadets after qualifying for these exams.

INCENTIVES
NCC cadets are granted with some incentives in the form of scholarship. These incentives are as
follows:-
Incentives provided by NCC Headquarters
Scholarship Scheme:
150 Scholarships to JD/JW and 100 scholarships to SD/SW of Rs. 2000/-each awarded
annually to meritorious NCC Cadets who have undergone two years training with minimum 60%
attendance.

*JD/JW- 10th pass with minimum 70% marks in aggregate.

*SD/SW- 10+2 or Pre-Degree/Pre-University/Diploma in Polytechnic, with 70% in aggregate of
science stream & 60% of art/commerce stream.

Note: Relaxation of 5% marks for SC/ST. Bonus 10% marks on securing minimum percentage as

above to SC/ST/OBC.

Financial help is given to the cadets & their families if they are injured during the training.

*Delhi:
- 1.25 lakhs (Due to high risk NCC activities).
- 1 lakh (During other NCC activities)

*Injury Reimbursement of upto Rs. 1 lakh for specialized treatment in case of permanent disability
and upto Rs. 50,000/- for normal treatment.
Financial Support to NCC
Funding of the NCC is the dual responsibility of central and the State Governments. Financial
support from both these govt. is therefore a mandatory requirement to ensure functional efficiency
of the organization. The State Govt. bears the liability for the following expenditure.

*Pay and Allowance of State Government Employees in NCC Organization.
*Office Accommodation, Furniture, POL etc. in respect of Gp HQ and units.
*Refreshment, Washing and Polishing Allowances for NCC Cadets.
*Outfit and Outfit Maintenance, and Honorarium for ANOs.
*Pre-Commission and Refresher Training for ANOs.
25% of NCC Camp expenditure is bear by the State Government. The other 75% is reimbursed by
the Central Govt.

BONUS MARKS are given in following vacancies:-

 At the time of recruitment in the ranks in the Defence Forces, Cadets get bonus marks .
Soldier GD Category-In this category bonus marks are based on total marks secured in physical and
written examination.

*NCC ‘A’ Certificate—5%
NCC ‘B’ Certificate—8%
NCC ‘C’ Certificate—10%
Soldier Tech/Clk/SKT/Nursing.Asstt: Bonus marks will be based on total marks obtained in written
examination.

*Navy: Under mentioned marks are added for recruitment in Navy Direct entry Sailor and Artificer
Apprentices.

Certificate Sailor Artificer Apprentices
Certificate ‘A’ 02 marks 05 marks
Certificate ‘B’ 04 marks 10 marks
Certificate ‘C’ 06 marks 15 marks

*Air Force: Under mentioned marks are added to selection test marks of certificate holders:
NCC ‘A’ Certificate—3 marks
NCC ‘B’ Certificate—4 marks
NCC ‘C’ Certificate—5 marks

*Military Nursing Service:
One seat is reserved for B.Sc (Nursing) Course and 24 Probationer Nursing Course for NCC trained
girls, possessing G-2 Certificate in order of merit.

Many incentives provided by the NCC cadets by Para Military Forces are as follows:-
BSF (Border Security Force)
NCC ‘A’ Certificate—4 marks
NCC ‘B’ Certificate—6 marks
NCC ‘C’ Certificate—10 marks

CISF (Central Industrial Security Force): Preferential marks to NCC certificate holders for
recruitment in CISF
NCC ‘B’ Certificate—1 mark
NCC ‘C’ Certificate—3 marks

Coast Guard: Weightage of 15 marks to NCC ‘C’ Certificate holders for recruitment in officer cadre
or ranks depending on education qualification.

ITBP (Indo Tibetan Border Police): Preference to NCC ‘C’ Certificate holders for recruitment in
officer cadre of ranks, depending on educational qualification.

By Col. S.K.Joshi , Shaurya Chakra, Sena Medal
Joint Director (Trg)
NCC Directorate
Old Sectt. Bulding
Delhi-110054
 (Reference: Downloaded from Employment News website: 8 Dec 09 – 14 Dec 09 issue)

Benefits of NCC

1. Priviledges and Concessions
(a) Vacancies as under are reserved for commission in the Defence Services for the NCC
‘C’ Certificate Holders.

(i) Army.
IMA Dehradun. 64 vacancies every year through UPSC and SSB interview.
OTA Chennai. 100 vacancies every year for Short Service Commission
(Non Tech) No UPSC exam only SSB interview.

(ii) Navy . 06 Vacancies per course. No UPSC exam only SSB interview. Two
year age relaxation for NCC ‘ C’ certificate holders.

(iii) Indian Air Force. 10 % in all courses including flying training courses. No
UPSC exam only SSB interview.

(b) For Other Ranks, Sailors, Airmen 5% to 10% bonus marks awarded for
recruitment for NCC ‘A’ ‘B’ & ‘C’ certificate holders.

(c) Para Military Forces. 2 to 10 bonus marks awarded for recruitment.
(d) Department of Telecommunication. Bonus marks awarded for recruitment.
(e) NCC. Civilian Gliding Instructors / Girl Cadet Instructor / Whole Time Lady Officer.
(f) State Government. Preference for State Services and reservation of seats for higher
educational studies in certain states.
(g) Industry. Many Industries give preference to NCC ‘C’ cert holders for various jobs
(h) Other Incentives.

>CWS Scholarship - Rs. 5000/- for Hs and HSC results.
>Sahara Scholarship - Max amount Rs. 40,000.
>Chief Ministers Scholarship - SD/SW 2000/- JD/JW 1500/- each.
> Best Cadet in Group - Rs. 3000/-
>Insurance Cover - Upto Rs. 2,00,000/- for any eventuality.
>RDC Delhi - Numerous incentives.
 YEP - Visit Foreign countries.

2. Adventure Training & Sports.
(a) Land Based. Rock Climbing, Mountaineering, Trekking, Cycle, Motor Cycle,
Vehicle Expedition rallies and Camel Safari.
(b) Water Based. Scuba Diving, Sailing, Yatching, White Water Rafting, Wind
Surfing and Kayaking.
(c) Air Based. Para Sailing, Para Jumping, Slithering, Gliding, Microlight, Flying
and Hot Air Ballooning.
(d) Sports. Participating in Jawahar Lal Nehru Hockey Championship, Subroto Cup
Footbal Tournament, All India GV Mavlankar Shooting Championship, National hooting
Championships and Equestrian Championship.

3. Combat Training.
(a) Army Training. Firing, Section Level Tactics, Leadership Camps, Thal Sainik
Camp, Attachment with Army units, Military Hospitals, IMA dehradun and OTA.
(b) Naval Training. Firing, Advance Leadership Camps, Nau Sainik Camp, Ship
Modelling, Sea Training, Attachment with Naval Ships, Foreign Cruise and Coast
Guard.
(c) Air Training. Skeet Shooting, Aero Modelling, Vayu Sainik Camp, Attachment
Training with Air Force Squadrons, academies and visit to foreign countries.
(d) Misc. Communications skills and career guidance.

4. Methods of Selection :
Selection is on the basis of written examination, interview and
medical examination. All applications are scrutinized at HQ DG NCC, New Delhi and applicants
and short – listed.

The written test is of objective type comprising.
General Knowledge, English and NCC subject of three hours duration. The selected candidates
based on written test are called to appear for interview and medical examination at NCC Officers
Training Academy, Gwalior.

5. Pay Scale GCI Grade – II : Rs 4000 - 100 – 6000
GCI Grade – I : Rs 5500 – 155 – 9000

6. Medical Facilities : The Girl Cadet Instructors and their Dependants are entitled to free
medical facilities in the Military Hospitals.

7. Traveling Concession : As applicable to civil employees of Central Govt Service.

8. CSD Facilities : The Canteen Stores Department facilities are extended to Girls Cadet
Instructors.

WHOLE TIME LADY OFFICERS (WTLO)
Eligibility. In accordance with the provisions of Recruitment Rules for the vacancy in the
grade of Lieutenant of NCC, Whole Time Lady Officer (WTLO), it will be filled up in the
following manner :
(a) 80% vacancies on the basis of direct recruitment conducted by UPSC.
(b) 20% of vacancies by promotion, to be filled up from amongst the Girls Cadets
Instructors on basis of limited Departmental Competition which is held under the aegis
of Headquarters Director General NCC, New Delhi.

GIRL CADET INSTRUCTORS (GCI)
1. The cadre of Girl Cadet Instructor (GCI) has been introduced to promote closer
interaction between staff. There are three promotional grades of GCI i.e GCI Grades I,II &
III. At present 20% posts out of the authorisation of regular army instructional staff in the
Girls Battalions are filled by the GCIs. The following are the conditions of eligibility and
qualification.
2. Condition of Eligibility : Age limit between 20 and 25 years relaxable by 05 yrs for
SC / ST & 03 Years for OBC.
3. Essential Qualification : Degree of Recognised University.
Possession of NCC ‘C’ Certificate.