Indian Army Technical Entry Scheme (TES-54) Recruitment 2025 Notification

INDIAN ARMY (PERMANENT COMMISSION)
10+2 TECHNICAL ENTRY SCHEME – 54 COURSE COMMENCING FROM JAN2026

1. Applications are invited from unmarried male Candidates who have passed 10+2 examination with Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics (hereinafter referred to as PCM) subjects and appeared in JEE (Mains) 2025 examination and fulfill the eligibility conditions prescribed in the subsequent paragraphs, for the grant of Permanent Commission in the Army for Technical Entry Scheme (TES-54). (Indian Army Technical Entry Scheme Recruitment 2025 Notification)

2. Indian Army Technical Entry Scheme Recruitment 2025 Eligibility Criteria 

(a) Nationality:

A candidate must be an unmarried male and must either be: (i) A citizen of India, or (ii) A subject of Nepal, or (iii) A person of Indian origin who migrated from Pakistan, Burma, Sri Lanka and East African countries of Kenya, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania (formerly Tanganyika and Zanzibar), Zambia, Malawi, Zaire and Ethiopia and Vietnam with the intention of permanently settling in India.

Provided that a candidate belonging to categories (ii), (iii) above shall be a person in whose favour a certificate of eligibility has been issued by Govt of India. Certificate of eligibility will, however, not be necessary in the case of candidates who are Gorkha subjects of Nepal. A candidate in whose case a certificate of eligibility is necessary may be admitted to the examination provisionally subject to the necessary certificate being given to him by the Govt. before declaration of result by SSB/joining training.

Note: Candidates must undertake not to marry until they complete their full training. A candidate, who marries subsequent to the date of his application, though successful, will not
be selected for training. A candidate who marries during training shall be discharged and will be liable to refund all expenditure incurred on him by the government.

(b) Age Limit: 

A candidate must not be below 16½ years and above 19½ years on the first day of the month in which the course is due to commence i.e. the candidate should not be born before 02 July 2006 and not after 01 July 2009 both days inclusive).

Note:

1. Candidates should note that only the date of birth as recorded in the Matriculation/ Secondary School Examination or an equivalent certificate will be accepted. No other document relating to age will be accepted.
2. Candidates should also note that once a date of birth has been claimed by them and entered in the records, no change will be allowed subsequently on any ground whatsoever.

(c) Educational Qualification:

1. Only those candidates who have passed 10+2 Examination or its equivalent with a minimum aggregate of 60% marks in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics from recognized education boards are eligible to apply for this entry. Eligibility condition for calculating PCM percentage of various state /central boards will be based on marks obtained in Class XII only.
2. Candidate must have appeared in JEE (Mains) 2025.

(d) Medical Examination & Physical Standards:

Please visit www.joinindianarmy.nic.in for Medical Standards and Procedure of Medical Examination for Officers Entry into Army as applicable.

Note : The proceedings of the Medical Board are confidential and will not be divulged to anyone. Directorate General of Recruiting has no role to play in any Medical Boards. Procedure advised by the competent medical authorities will be strictly adhered to.

(e) Candidate applying for the entry should not have been debarred from appearing in any examination by UPSC. Candidate should not have been arrested/convicted by a criminal court or involved in any court case. In case any such issue comes to notice during the selection process or pre-commission training, candidate/cadet will be subjected to cancellation of candidature/ withdrawal from the Academy by IHQ of MoD (Army)

3. Vacancies: 90

The Vacancies are provisional and can be changed depending on the training capacity at the Cadets Training Wings for this course. The vacancies are subject to increase/decrease keeping the organizational requirement at that point of time.

4. Type of Commission:

On successful completion of 4 years of the course, cadets will be granted Permanent Commission in the Army in the rank of Lieutenant.

5. Training:

Total training will be of 4 years at under mentioned Pre Commissioned Training Academies (PCTA). Details are as under:-

1. Phase-I: Integrated Basic Military Training & Engineering Training at Cadets Training Wings located at CME, Pune/MCTE, Mhow/MCEME, Secunderabad for three years.
2. Phase-II: Integrated Basic Military Training & Engineering Training for one year at IMA, Dehradun.
3. Award of Degree: The candidates will be awarded Engineering degree after successful completion of 04 (four) years training. No ante date seniority will be admissible to candidates on account of this Engineering degree. During the entire training duration of four years a maximum of two relegations will be permitted on account of academic grounds in accordance with JNU Ordinance. Any further relegation on academic grounds will lead to withdrawal from training.

Note: Candidates must understand that in case of final selection, their appointment will be provisional subject to satisfactory verification of antecedents by concerned civil/police/ education authorities, as applicable.

6. Cost of Training:

₹13,940/- (as on 2021) and as notified from time to time per week (for the period of candidate’s stay at Cadet Training Wings/Indian Military Academy Dehradun.) The cost of training is borne by State; will be recovered from candidates withdrawing for personal reasons.

7. Promotion Criteria and Salary Structure of Indian Army Technical Entry Scheme:

(a) Promotion Criteria:

(b) Pay

(c) Military Service Pay (MSP):

MSP to the officers from the rank of Lt to Brig ₹ 15,500/- p.m fixed.

(d) Fixed Stipend for Cadet Training:

The gentlemen cadets will be given a stipend of ₹ 56,100/-p.m.* as is admissible to NDA cadets on completion of 3 years training. On completion 04 years of trg, they will be commissioned in the rank of Lt and entitled to pay as admissible to the rank.

* On successful commissioning, the pay in the pay matrix of the officer commissioned shall
be fixed in first Cell of Level 10 and the period of training shall not be treated as
commissioned service and arrears on account of admissible allowances, as applicable, for
the training period shall be paid to cadets

+ Qualification Grant, Dearness Allowance, Kit maintenance Allowance, Risk and Hardship Matrix, Uniform Allowance, Ration in Kind, Transport Allowance Extra

9. How to Apply for Indian Army Technical Entry Scheme Recruitment 2025:

Application will only be accepted online. To do so the candidate needs to click on the ‘online application’ button on website www.joinindianarmy.nic.in

1. Candidates must enter their particulars in the online application. Terms and conditions linked to the form must be read, prior to submitting the form.
2. A candidate is permitted to make changes to data filled incorrectly in online application till the closing of the online applications. The candidate must ‘submit’ his application each time he opens his application for editing. No changes to online application will be permitted thereafter and no representation in this regard will be entertained.
3. After successfully submitting the form, the candidate will receive a confirmation in the form of a dialog box of having submitted the application. Print out of the application with a Roll number will be available to the candidate 30 mins after the closing of online applications. Candidates are required to print two copies of the application with Roll Number generated by the system. One copy of the print out application duly self attested by the candidate will be carried to the selection centre for the SSB interview. Following documents will also be carried along with the Application Form: (i) Class 10th certificate and mark sheet in original showing DOB. (ii) Class 12th certificate and mark sheet in original. (iii) ID proof in original. (iv) Copy of result of JEE (Mains) 2025. The second copy of the printout of online application is to be retained by the candidate for his reference. There is no need to send any hard copy of application printout to Directorate General of Recruiting.
4. Two self attested photocopies of the certificates mentioned at ser (c) above will be submitted at the time of SSB interview and originals will be returned after verification at the SSB itself.
5. 20 copies of self attested PP size photograph will also be carried along with the Application Form.
6. Candidates must submit only one application. Receipt of multiple applications from the same candidate will result in cancellation of candidature.

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