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some branches of the armed forces. In the Indian Air Force, they are also
being inducted in flying arms. In the future, slowly and steadily the

armed forces will become an equal opportunity employer offering more

significant roles to the women of India in serving the nation.

Selection Centres

The Indian Army has three selection centres across the country. These are
Selection Centre East at Allahabad, Selection Centre Central at Bhopal and
Selection Centre South at Bengaluru. In all, there are 10 Services Selection

Boards of the Army which are organised as follows:

Selection Centre East, Allahabad – 11 SSB, 14 SSB, 18 SSB, 19 SSB,

34 SSB

Selection Centre Central, Bhopal – 20 SSB, 21 SSB, 22 SSB

Selection Centre South, Bengaluru – 17 SSB, 24 SSB

The Navy has two SSBs, one each at Bhopal and Bengaluru. In addition,

there are two Naval Selection Boards, one each at Coimbatore and
Visakhapatnam and three more boards are under formation at

Visakhapatnam. The Army has boards in Gaya and Kapurthala. The Air
Force has three boards namely,

No. 1 Air Force Selection Board at Dehradun

No. 2 Air Force Selection Board at Mysore

No. 3 Air Force Selection Board at Varanasi

In addition, the Air Force has a selection board at Gandhinagar. Since the
pool of aspirants is constantly increasing, the armed forces are gradually

increasing the number of selection boards to test as many candidates as
possible. Further, efforts are also on to reduce the duration of selection to
three days from the present five days schedule.

As it stands today, the Indian Armed Forces offer some of the finest careers
of all. Ironically, while the youth in our country is struggling to find