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Say no to tattoos to become a ‘real’ gentleman cadet
A tattoo anywhere on your body, except for your hand, may not allow you to become a ‘gentleman’ cadet in the Indian Army. According to fresh set of instructions, “The youth with tattoos anywhere on their body except for their hands will not be considered for the job.” Even those having tattoos on their hand will have to undergo thorough medical screening and pass the litmus test before clearing the final hurdle.
On Wednesday when thousands of youth hailing from five districts of Jammu region lined up for ongoing recruitment rally at Akhnoor, a senior Army officer supervising the recruitment process Brig Vinod Raizada, Deputy Director General Recruiting (Punjab and J&K), told visiting mediapersons, “in the absence of general awareness among the job aspirants we have to turn down the candidature of large number of youth with signs of tattoos over their body”.
He said, it has been noticed that youth with tattoos suffer from skin diseases/infections.
Brig Raizada said, the fresh set of instructions were communicated to them by the headquarters in the month of November and not many aspirants were aware about these conditions.
The Army officer also requested the mediapersons to generate awareness among the youth especially living in rural areas to avoid having tattoos on their body parts if they wish to join the Indian Army.
Brig Raizada said the practice of inserting tattoos was more popular in urban pockets and areas closer to city centres. The trend is not so popular among the rural youth.
According to the rough estimates at least 30 per cent youth attending the recruitment rally in Akhnoor reported having tattoos on their different body parts and were asked to go back.
One of the job aspirants from Rajouri Munazer Hussain was seen cursing his fate as his candidature was turned down by the recruitment authorities due to a tattoo on his body. He was not the only one, several other youth from Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts went home empty handed without getting the opportunity to undergo the screening process due to tattoo.
According to officiating defence spokesman SN Acharaya, about 15,000 youth from frontier districts of Rajouri, Poonch, Samba, Kathua and Jammu turned up for the recruitment rally and about 8,000 youth are expected to enrol themselves for the first round of screening. He said the youth showed lot of interest and came out to join the Army.
A tattoo anywhere on your body, except for your hand, may not allow you to become a ‘gentleman’ cadet in the Indian Army. According to fresh set of instructions, “The youth with tattoos anywhere on their body except for their hands will not be considered for the job.” Even those having tattoos on their hand will have to undergo thorough medical screening and pass the litmus test before clearing the final hurdle.
On Wednesday when thousands of youth hailing from five districts of Jammu region lined up for ongoing recruitment rally at Akhnoor, a senior Army officer supervising the recruitment process Brig Vinod Raizada, Deputy Director General Recruiting (Punjab and J&K), told visiting mediapersons, “in the absence of general awareness among the job aspirants we have to turn down the candidature of large number of youth with signs of tattoos over their body”.
He said, it has been noticed that youth with tattoos suffer from skin diseases/infections.
Brig Raizada said, the fresh set of instructions were communicated to them by the headquarters in the month of November and not many aspirants were aware about these conditions.
The Army officer also requested the mediapersons to generate awareness among the youth especially living in rural areas to avoid having tattoos on their body parts if they wish to join the Indian Army.
Brig Raizada said the practice of inserting tattoos was more popular in urban pockets and areas closer to city centres. The trend is not so popular among the rural youth.
According to the rough estimates at least 30 per cent youth attending the recruitment rally in Akhnoor reported having tattoos on their different body parts and were asked to go back.
One of the job aspirants from Rajouri Munazer Hussain was seen cursing his fate as his candidature was turned down by the recruitment authorities due to a tattoo on his body. He was not the only one, several other youth from Jammu, Samba and Kathua districts went home empty handed without getting the opportunity to undergo the screening process due to tattoo.
According to officiating defence spokesman SN Acharaya, about 15,000 youth from frontier districts of Rajouri, Poonch, Samba, Kathua and Jammu turned up for the recruitment rally and about 8,000 youth are expected to enrol themselves for the first round of screening. He said the youth showed lot of interest and came out to join the Army.
