Shortage of 14,448 officers in Army, Navy and Air Force

New Delhi, Mar 10 (ANI): The Armed Forces are no more considered a viable career option and implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission to make the Services more attractive has not been able to reduce the shortage of 14,448 officers in the Army, the Navy and the Air Force.

The Defence Ministry which is engaged in the task of making a career in the Armed Forces more attractive is not successful in reducing the shortage of officers..

"There has been shortage of officers in the Armed Forces. The shortage of officers in the Army is around 11,500 and in the Navy, the shortage is 1606. The number of vacancies in Air Force is 1342," Defence Minister AK Antony said on Wednesday.

"The shortage is partly attributable to accretions in the Armed Forces from time to time, tough selection procedures, difficult service conditions coupled with perceived high degree of risk involved in service career," he said in Rajya Sabha.

Antony said that a number of steps have been taken to attract the talented youth to join the defence forces.

"All officers including those in Short Service Commission (SSC) are now eligible to hold substantive rank of Captain, Major and Lieutenant Colonel after two, six and 13 years of reckonable service respectively. The tenure of SSC officers has been increased from 10 to 14 years," the Defence Minister said.

"A total number of 750 posts of Lt. Colonel have been upgraded to Colonel towards implementation of AV Singh Committee Report (Phase-I).

"Further, 1896 additional posts in the ranks of Colonel, Brigadier, Major General and Lieutenant General and their equivalents in the other two Services have been upgraded towards implementation of AV Singh Committee Report (Phase-II)," he added. (ANI)

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Now, mobile phones to offer X-ray vision

Sydney, March 10 (ANI): Researchers at the University of South Australia have developed mobile phone software that can offer X-ray vision to see what's on the other side of the building in front of you.

Christian Sandor said that the application works by using the phone's camera, reports the Sydney Morning Herald.


He said that users can point the camera at a building and an image of it would appear on the screen. Then, the image would change to show what was behind the building, as if it was no longer there, Sandor said.

Sandor said the research group collaborated with Nokia to build the application, which it hoped could be introduced in the next two years.

The technology, known as augmented reality, appears to be X-ray vision, but in reality it uses pictures and images that already exist in databases such as Google Earth and Google Streetview.

Sandor said that the application needs two pieces of information: 3D model of the area or city the phone user is in and the user's exact position.

He said that a 3D model of a city could be built using information collected from aerial surveys.

Survey planes capture the shape and size of the buildings in a city. That data is merged with images from databases to complete the 3D model.

GPS is used to work out the user's exact position. Once the software knows this information, it uses information and images from the 3D model to display a picture of what is behind the building.

Sandor said that the technology could not be used to see into people's houses because only the exterior views of buildings and streets were held in the databases. (ANI)

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