NO PUNJAB YOUTH WAS FOUND DRUG ADDICT; SAID ARMY AFTER ANTI-DOPE TEST OF 5500 YOUTHS
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The Hindustan Times while reporting the recruitment drive had reported this:
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"The procedure for recruitment went through five main stages: 1,600-metre race, documentation, physical measurement, complete medical checkup and then a written test. First of all, the race was conducted to check the physical strength of contestants. The contenders should run 1,600 meters within 6 minutes.
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The physical test at the recruitment rally for Bathinda and Faridkot districts was conducted at the camping ground of the Cantonment, Bathinda, from April 29. More than 8,500 candidates had come to attend the rally till Saturday.
hushan Kuncheria, colonel and director of recruitment, Ferozepur, said, “In the recruitment procedure, the drug testing was added recently to ensure that drug addicted candidates could not join the army. None of the candidates was tested positive for drugs. All the candidates, who cleared the physical measurements test, are free from drugs.” Here is how another English daily from Chandigarh had reported this:
