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Number Crunch!

There's no officer shortage, just too many non-combat seniors

Saikat Datta

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With Caps On
  • Cadet intake into IMA and NDA is at an all-time high
  • Experts say shortage of 11,000 officers is of the army's own making
  • It has created a top-heavy structure with superseded and aging Lt colonels and colonels stagnating in peace stations
  • 3,000 officers are looking for premature retirement. The army has no exit policy.
  • The air force has 3,050 pilots when it only requires 1,700 of them. Yet it claims a shortage of 1,528 officers.

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