ARMY PLACEMENT Agency (APA) is a welfare facility of the Army Headquarters to provide free-of-cost service to desirous employers. It is a single point of contact for civil employers to meet all requirements of ex-Indian Army officers, JCOs/other ranks and widows.
It has an all-India reach through its placement nodes. The Indian Army is an excellent source of skilled manpower, right across the board. Every year, thousands of highly trained officers, Junior Commissioned Officers and men retire and look out for a second career.
Irrespective of the arm or service they are associated with, their skills and training transfers easily to the commercial world. They are self-motivated, committed and flexible individuals with extensive specialist training, a ‘can do’ attitude and the famous ‘killer instinct’.
APA offers comprehensively trained and experienced trade and professional specialists. There are experienced senior and middle-level managers with highly developed personal skills, used to taking decisions and managing budgets.
It boasts of reliable and skilled individuals with team-building leadership along with administrative and training experience.
It provides middle-level women managers and professionals used to acting decisively with highly developed leadership, administrative and technical skills. The APA database possesses executives, HRD managers, administrators, security officers, security supervisors and guards, production and works managers, civil engineers for highways and other infrastructure constructions.
{{/usCountry}}It provides middle-level women managers and professionals used to acting decisively with highly developed leadership, administrative and technical skills. The APA database possesses executives, HRD managers, administrators, security officers, security supervisors and guards, production and works managers, civil engineers for highways and other infrastructure constructions.
{{/usCountry}}Telecommunications, IT and electronics engineers, doctors, nurses and paramedical staff; legal advisors and law experts; inventory & material management executives, supervisors and staff event & estate managers and office assistants; mechanics; automobiles, heavy machinery, telecom, electrical instruments and others; drivers, peons, messengers, cooks and waiters; operators and many more hardcore professionals are also available.
For the residents of Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh the APA node is located at CIO Station Cell, HQ MB Area Jabalpur. The phone number is 0761-2601904. Queries can also be sent through the emails, the email ID is apnjabalpur@yahoo.co.in.
Peer Baba
The Mazaar of Peer Baba which is located at the centre of the cantonment in Mhow is worshipped by the people irrespective of the caste, creed or religion. The Mazaar having being enclosed within the military garrison; the Army is responsible for its maintenance and distribution of weekly ‘prasad’ on Thursdays.
Needless to say, this gesture has gone a long way in projecting the humane face of the Army. Children of course are the first to arrive and last to leave on Thursdays, not due to any religious leanings but primarily due to the generous portions of ‘prasad’ that is distributed, which is invariably augmented by distribution of sweets by various individuals on account of wishes fulfilled or prayers answered.
Did you know?
The Children’s Bureau Commission on Children in Wartime, which met for the first time March 16-18, 1942, adopted a Children’s Charter in Wartime expressing four general objectives for children: to guard children from injury in danger zones; to protect children from neglect, exploitation, and undue strain in defence areas; to strengthen the home life of children whose parents are mobilised for war or war production; and to conserve, equip, and free children of every race and creed to take their part in democracy.
This paved way for the formation of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) organisation founded by the United Nations in 1946 to provide food, clothing, and rehabilitative programmes to children brutalised by World War II (1939-1945). In 1950 the United Nations made UNICEF responsible for improving the welfare of all children worldwide.
The organisation’s mission is threefold:
(1) to ensure that basic nutrition, health, and education needs of children are met,
(2) to give children the opportunity to expand their potential
(3) and to create an international ethical standard of behaviour toward children. It has worked extensively with children from war-torn countries to help alleviate their suffering. UNICEF has helped provide millions of children with clean drinking water and sanitary living conditions.
By training educators to develop effective school programmes, the agency has enabled children around the world to benefit from a primary school education. UNICEF also provides a relief network for children and their parents or other caregivers in the aftermath of disasters, such as floods, earthquakes, and droughts.
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