Physical Criteria for join Army

What is the Physical Criteria required to join Indian Army, will you please provide here???

[Kiran Chandar]

Here is the Physical Criteria required to join Indian Army:

The minimum acceptable height for Male candidate is 157.5 cms.
For women candidate’s minimum acceptable height is 152 cms.
For Gorkhas and individuals belonging to hills of North Eastern region of India, Garhwali and Kumaon, the Minimum acceptable height will be 5 cms less.
In case of candidates from Lakshadweep, the minimum acceptable height can be reduced by 2 cms for males and females candidates.

The candidate must be in good physical and mental health and free from any disease/disability

There should be no disease of bones and joints of the body.

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

The hearing should be normal. A candidate should be able to hear a forced whisper with each ear at a distance of 610 cms. in a quiet room.

There should be no hydrocele, varicocele or piles.

A 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.

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

Exam pattern

Paper I – Mathematics : (Maximum Marks 300)
Arithmetic, Mensuration, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Statistics.
Paper II – General Ability
Part A – English (Maximum Marks 200)
Part B – General Knowledge (Maximum Marks 400)

Section A (Physics)
Section B (Chemistry)
Section C (General Science)
Section D (History, Freedom Movement etc)
Section E (Geography)
Section F (Current Event)