MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL STANDARDS FOR JOINING INDIAN ARMY

 

1. The candidate must be in physically and mentally healthy and free from any disease/disability.

2. There should be no evidence of weak constitution, bodily defects or over weight.
The minimum acceptable height for Male candidate is 157.5 cms.

3. For women candidate’s minimum acceptable height is 152 cms.

4. Chest should be healthy. For males the minimum range of expansion after full inspiration should be 5 cms.

5. There should be no joint of bones and Disease of the body.

6. candidate should have no past history of mental breakdown or fits.

7. There should be no sign of functional or organic disease of the heart and blood vessel. Blood pressure should be normal.

8. The hearing should be normal. A candidate should be able to hear a forced whisper with each ear at a distance of 610 cms. There should be no evidence of present or past disease of the ear, Throat and Nose.

9. The muscles of abdomen should be well developed and there is no enlargement of liver or spleen.

10. There should be no hydrocele, varicoceles or piles.

11. Un-operated hernias will make a candidate unfit. If operated, this should have been done at least 1 year prior to the present examination and healing is completed.

12. Any disease of the skin which is likely to cause disability or disfigurement will also be a cause for rejection.

13. Urine examination will be done and any abnormality, if detected will be a cause for rejection.

14. Internal examination of the eye will be done by means of ophthalmoscope to rule out any disease of the eye. A candidate must have good binocular vision. The colour vision standard will be CP-III for Army. A candidate should be able to recognise red and green colours.

15. candidate should be able to read 6/6 in a distant vision chart with each eye with or without glasses. Myopia should not be more than 3.5D and hypermetropia not more than 3.5D including Astigmatism. For women candidates the minimum acceptable visual acuity are: Distant vision (corrected)better eye 6/6 worse 6/18, Myopia of not more than minus 5.5 including Astogination.

PHYSICAL CONDITIONING

Prospective candidates are advised to keep themselves in good physical condition:-

RUNNING :- 2 to 4 Km. in 15 minutes
Skipping

PUSHUPS & SIT-UPS :- Minimum 20 each

CHIN UPS :- Minimum 08

ROPE CLIMBING :- 3 to 4 meters.

Along with your physical fitness, you have to keep yourself fit and healthy with mental health and always Stay positive and confident.

JAIHIND.