Coimbatore: If the results of the results of the results of the public education department, more students from Tamil Nadu will join the armed forces in the coming years.
The department has asked the District Head of Education (CEO) to instruct schools in their respective districts to create awareness among parents and class X students for class XII about employment opportunities available in the Indian Navy and other defense services.
The government also tends to offer free coaching for rural students, on the coaching path for NEET, to solve competitive defense checks.
In communication October 28 sent to all major education officers, the state government has sought advice on starting a free coaching center to train rural students to get jobs in this unexplored area.
The steps of the Ministry of Education came after an Indian Navy officer who served at the NCC NCC urged the state government to offer training to medium-class Tamil rural students because they found it difficult to clear the defense recruitment test carried out in Hindi and English.
Citing profitable work opportunities in the armed forces, Captain D Senthil Kumar said that basic training to carry out entrance tests would help students end up with ordinary work.
The Indian Navy has increased the annual intake of seafarers, which is the position of entry-level soldiers, from 2,000 to 7,000.
But less than 2% of candidates from Tamil Nadu joined the Indian Navy.
Even these candidates come from cities and there are contributions that can be ignored from rural areas.
“Most children in the higher middle class fell looking for initial work for poverty.
Because the armed forces offer better prospects at an early age, by offering encouragement in terms of defense recruitment tests, the dropout rate can be reduced because students will be guaranteed At work, “said Coimbatore District Education Officer N Geetha.
Surendren, Director, Academy Defense Chennai, an institute to train candidates to the armed forces, said the schools were hardly educating children on armed opportunities.
Most of them know the strength only in their college.
However, the armed forces recruited candidates as soon as their class XII even for officer cadres, he said.