Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Aug 22: Forty two boys from six Skill Development Centers being run by the Jammu district administration in the border blocks of the district have made it to the Army in the recently declared results of the recruitment rally which was organised by the Directorate of Military Recruitment in Akhnoor in May this year.
A total of 127 boys, who were trained for three months by these border centres, participated in the rally out of which 42 finally got selected. The centers named as Centres for Border Youth Training and Empowerment (C-BYTE) were started in Arnia, Suchetgarh, Marh, Khour, Pargwal and Mandal blocks of Jammu district in January 2016 under the skill development budget of the Border Area Development Programme (BADP) of Union Home Ministry.
Each training batch is of three months duration and so far five batches have been successfully completed. Prior to this, 72 boys made it to Indian Army, Air Force, Navy, CRPF, BSF, ITBP and J&K Police from these centers.
The current selection of boys takes the number of total selections in the last one year to 114.
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