178,000 Women Apply for NDA 2 2021

On August 18, 2021, Supreme Court ordered to women to appear for NDA Exam on 14th November. After the maiden attempt, UPSC reopened the online application window for NDA 2 2021 for Women. the online application stared on 24th September til 8th of October, 2021.

As a result a total of 1,78,000 Women candidates applied for the NDA written exam. With this count, one third of the candidates who will appear for the National Defence Academy (NDA) examination on November 14 for entry into the premier joint services training institution will be women.

“Nearly 570,000 applications have been received and of these 178,000 are women,” said one of the government officials cited above.

NDA 2 2021 Important Dates

NDA 2 2021 EventsImportant Dates
Notification Release date24 Sep 2021
NDA 2 2021 Application Start24 Sep 2021
NDA 2 2021 Apply Last Date08 Oct 2021
Release of Admit card2 Weeks before Exam
NDA 2 2021 Exam date14 November 2021
Declaration of resultDec 2021

The apex court’s order making women eligible to join NDA, which was formally inaugurated 66 years ago and was thus far a male preserve, came almost three decades after they were allowed to serve in select branches of the army, air force and navy as short-service commission (SSC) officers.