Man Power Management of Ex-Servicemen in India

Abstract

Indian Defence Forces employ more than a million personnel in its different arms and cadres. It is the national requirement to keep the youthful profile of the Armed Forces because of the hazardous and arduous nature of their duties.  Because of this reason nearly 70,000 personnel of the armed forces compelled to retire every year mostly in the age group of late 30s or early 40s and they are called ex-servicemen. The Ex-service Human Resource Community is a dynamic, innovative and flexible community. They bring an extraordinary array of skills and training. Each branch of the services will be trained in one or more backgrounds throughout their defence career. They have acquired a lot soft skills also. They are excelled in every field because of the ethos and culture of organised hard work that has developed during training in the force. But after retirement these skilled man power is lying underutilised. It leads colossal waste of money invested for their training. In the individual and national point of view these high quality human resources must be utilised.