Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, Sept 27: An Engineering graduate from restive South Kashmir’s Anantnag district has cracked Services Selection Board (SSB) examination securing fourth position to join as Commissioned Officer in Army.
Zubair Ahmad Itoo of a village close in Anantnag district, had appeared in the hectic SSB examination for being commissioned as an Officer in Indian Army from June 15 to June 20. The selection system is designed over a five-day process: Day 1 is the screening test, Day 2 is the Psychologist Tests, Day 3 and 4 are the group tasks and Day 5 is the Conference (Results).
Itoo, who has completed his engineering from SRM University Delhi, only this year in May, said he cleared the examination from special selection centre (North) Kapurthala (in Punjab) and has ranked fourth in the country. “In all four selection centres (Allahabad, Bhopal, Bangalor and Kaputhala), I have secured fourth rank and the Selection Medical Board has also cleared me of all tests and now I will join 49-week long officer training at Officers Training Academy in Chennai,” he said.
Following the training at Chennai Academy, Zubair will join Indian Army as a Lieutenant. “Later on, I will get promoted as a Captain,” he said, adding that the SSB exam for Commissioned Officer “is more hectic and tough than Indian Administrative Service (IAS) examination”.
The selection of Zubair into Indian Army as a Commissioned Officer has come at a time when Kashmir is witnessing civil unrest in the wake of killing of Hizbul Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani on July 8.
Zubair, whose district has seen worst violence during the present unrest, believes that “youth can only achieve something through education”. “Without education, you can’t achieve and do anything. The studies are important and only way to achieve something,” he said. Zubair said the street-protests that have claimed nearly 80 lives in 81 days “won’t yield anything”. “I ask youth to focus on studies to achieve something in their lives,” he added.
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