An Army recruitment rally for aspirants from ten districts of Telangana State got underway in Kothagudem on Thursday.
The recruitment rally will conclude on February 14. Around 2,656 youths from all over Telangana State, who applied for solider (technical) posts online, participated in the recruitment rally on the inaugural day, official sources said.
Of these, as many as 686 aspirants have cleared the 1.6 km running test and qualified for medical tests, the next stage of the recruitment process.
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Kothagudem MLA Jalagam Venkat Rao flagged off the 1.6-km run held as part of the physical test for the aspirants of the soldier technical posts at Prakasam stadium in the coal town on Thursday morning.
Brig. Sangram Dalvi, Deputy Director General, Headquarters Recruiting Zone, Chennai, Colonel A K Rohilla, Director, Army Recruiting Office, Secunderabad, supervised the recruitment process.