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Psychological Tests for Selection of other Army Ranks

This follows a spate of fratricidal killings and suicides

Bangalore: Faced with fratricidal killings and suicides, the Indian Army is to introduce psychological personality tests in the selection of other ranks (ORs). The tests, which will be introduced from December, are aimed at eliminating candidates with psychological and personality problems from joining the Army. The Army has an active troop strength of over 1.1 million and is the second largest in the world.

Hitherto psychological tests were only used in the selection of officers, with candidates seeking to enlist as ORs only being checked for their broad physical attributes and rudimentary communicative and literate skills. But a marginal increase in the number of suicides (nine out of one lakh troops) and fratricidal killings, especially among troops posted in the forward areas or in areas where the Army is involved in low intensity conflicts (LIC), has prompted the Army to ascertain the social adaptability, social concerns and emotional quotient of candidates before they are recruited.

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