Note: This article was written in 2012, since then, some changes have been made in the official website but still it encounters glitches now and then.
If you have ever visited joinindianarmy.nic.in website which is an official career website of the Indian army, then I can understand your frustration in finding correct lists or information over there, you might be habitual to poor design and usability of joinindianarmy.nic.in the website but there is a limit of being careless that to when it is related to a big organization and many defence aspirants. This post will show you the heights of carelessness shown in joinindianarmy.nic.in website.
Before you say it is not a matter of deep concern, I will tell you why a good career website is important for any organization.
- Your website design reflects your professionalism.
- It helps your visitors to access information easily and apply for the recruitment.
- When you have huge visitors, your responsibility increases to provide them easy access to information.
- At last when you have spent money on something, you care for it.
Why Joinindianarmy.nic.in is the worst career website.
1. Not at all intuitive, there are no latest news and alert section. One has to struggle to get information from this website.
2. Gross mistakes, clear signs of negligence, and carelessness. This website looks totally a fake website, if you browse through it, you may find tons of dead links and dummy pages.
Here are some masterpiece examples:
3. Sometimes they upload the ssb interview lists in the wrong section, many times they interchange lists between men and women. Does anyone care about this? and moreover who upload these lists, private coy or army itself. If it is a private coy then just imagine the amount of delay it may cause.
You may know that this website is powered by PECS [planetecomsolutions.com], it is a private firm and there is no doubt that they charge handsome amount to maintain joinindianarmy.nic.in. But as you can see the condition of this website. This is not the first time I am finding someone who is struggling with this website, many aspirants get confused about their ssb dates and other information and they ask it here.
4. Now the question is who fault is this, in my opinion it is Indian army fault, they are not serious about their own website. If they ask PECS for better design then definitely they will make it better, when you pay money for something than you must take care of it. Daily thousands of visitors visit joinindianarmy.nic.in, it increases the responsibility, they must provide a nice platform to defence aspirants.
I rather appreciate indianarmy.nic.in which is an Official Indian Army Web Portal, maintained & managed by the Indian Army. Site hosted by NIC. Though it is also not much intuitive but far better than joinindianarmy.nic.in.
5. Once you visit careerairforce.nic.in and nausena-bharti.nic.in, you will easily understand the level of defence career websites.
Have you checked:
6. I appreciate NIC/NICSI for making careerairforce.nic.in awesome, specially it helped and made AFCAT application a piece of cake. Also not to forget www.jabitsoft.com, for designing nausena-bharti.nic.in.
Nausena-bharti.nic.in was ranked 3rd by webanalytics.gov.in [NIC],
Note: National Informatics Centre (NIC) is a premier S & T institution of the Government of India, established in 1976, for providing e-Government / e- Governance Solutions adopting best practices, integrated services and global solutions in Government Sector.
What is your opinion on this matter, post your thoughts and suggestions in the comment box below.
i have never had this kind of frustrating experience from the navy and airforce websites. they are well maintained and more user friendly.
every time i try to log in, it redirects me again and again to the login page even after putting the correct credentials. and most of the time the site inaccessible saying SECURE CONNECTION FAILED. and even after that if someway i do get inside the website, it doesn’t performs properly.
The experience is completely frustrating.
Hey admin, i am an aspirant for ssb and got screened out 2 times from army board, but that’s not the reason i am commenting, but i want to present my views according to the hot conversation above between you and the other person, INDIAN ARMY website is really having many problems and we find difficulties in application and searching something. Your post will be surely helpful to improve it’s condition and the other person will also realise his mistakes. He is a person who does not want to look at the reality but lives in tradition. These people are a curse for a developing country. I can surely say that this person is lying about his reccomendation as IAF will never select such a dumb.
certainly in this fast growing online world where peapole are use to acess very well disigned nd maintaind website. Weather it may be social media or ny other site we becoming more & more user frindly. In such situation an old model realy unattractive ,complex nd tedius web is clearly throwing a poor impresson on aspirants.
hey
can u guys tell me when the frms for sscw(t) october course r supposed to cm
it is likely to come on this jan only..
ssbcrack well done good job, ye reality check gandu admi hai ,dont argue with him, thanks
hey admin i wonder ,, aisa bi hota hai 😀 ,, how such ppl get recommended by IAF , which is known for its perfection :-(. its as simple whenever we want info regarding army recruitment or be it anything , my mind nvr allows me to surf official website of indian army. why not same in case of IAF and navy. although thr website was good enuf still they got new makeover. coz they want thr aspirants provided be best possible info. jai hind.
IAF and Navy, they keep on improving their websites, even IAF is doing active advertisement for AFCAT 2013 so they will get more and more candidates. To be frank Joinindianarmy need lot of improvement, it stands nowhere in front of IAF and Navy website.
ssc t 40 cut off % reduced to 62 .
Stop fighting like children….There is always a scope of improvement,even best is not best,it cam be improved too….
Yes,There is no intention for comparasion .it would be better if sir would have written Unmaintained site instead of Poor.But Sir you really doing great Job .Keep it up .Thankyou for your Help sir,i daily refer your site to crack my SSB .It is after 20 Jan, TES-29.And I will really Go to OTA,Gaya this time 🙂
Thankyou everyone.
@Realty Check-Life = @Reality Check-Life,
Dude, you are over reacting.Don’t you think? Even Indian Army is into Marketing so that they can attract the young talent which is very much required by any organization whether it Profitable or Non-Profitable and if it is done using any medium it should be proper. It should represent the Organization’s real face and internet is the only medium to project the pride and honour of Indian Army to the outside world which is not aware of it. I am sorry to say but seeing your comments above I doubt if you say that you got recommended for Indian Air force. And I agree with the point that website needs improvement. I have been visiting SSBCrack website from so long and and have seen great development in the structure which has definitely helped the Admin to build the traffic.
All the above mentioned lines are written with no intention to hurt anybody’s feelings.
Thanks,
Shashank
I am not fighting, just putting my views. ssbcrack is giving suggestions, but it seems more like comparison with them.
Army website is doing its job satisfactorily, and no match with the official site.
I visit this site and read about the results, they write in a way that seems like results are announced, but when you open it and read it, the thing is totally different, it is like ‘ coming soon’. Why they are creating suspense at first look like news channels.
I AGREE WITH YOU SIR,IF INDIAN ARMY IS KNOWN FOR IT’S NAME AND FAME.IT’S WEBSITE SHOULD ALSO SHOW OR REFLECT IT.I ALSO RECOMMEND THIS SITE ONLY.IT NOT ONLY PROVIDES USEFUL LINK BUT HELPS US TO ENTER INTO THE ARMY BY IMPARTING KNOWLEDGE TO US.AND I THANKYOU A LOT SIR:).
@ REALTY TRUE-LIFE-THEN WHY ARE YOU COMING ON THIS SITE,ONLY BECAUSE IT IS FAR BETTER THAN ARMY SITE .
DO NOT FIGHT.ACCEPT THE FAULT AND THANK SIR (ADMIN).I HOPE AT SOME POINT ,THIS SITE MUST HAVE HELPED YOU TOO.
@ admin…………..
plz dont allow such(R**** C****) users to say anything………..
They dont know anythng related to development……… lol….. 😀 🙂
you are right sir…but after our responses i hope army will improve its web site and eliminate the omissions …jai hind….
ssbcrack.com is way better then joinindianarmy
In what sense it is better than joinindianarmy.
ssbcrack depends on joinindianarmy for every recruitment details not vice versa
@ realty check – life.
to jaa na Indian Army k website pe, yaha kya ukhad raha hai????
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Hello …its better if u stay in ur limits…our constitution enshrines us the freedom if speech….its his view so none of ur business….and th reality of low std website cant be challenged..
Oh c’mon man, i am putting my views, i think you are just following him without using your brain.
No..Use ur brain. I am using ,mine u dumb!!Its clear that website is not upto expectations and u have no right telling me using my brain ..so better be in ur limits and rub your eyes..
Hi Reality Check, you are free to put your view, but don’t you think there is great scope of improvement in the website, why are you considering it perfect, this post is not for Indian army, but it is regarding a website which is followed by many aspirants. Since long there is no maintenance work had happen in joinindianarmy. Also army pay for it, so at least something must reflect there.
Also as a user we face problems, may be army is not aware of it, if we tell them our problems then they may fix it for us.
I am using my brain very well thats why i put my views, but you are just counter acting my views rather than finding yours.
@ realty check – life.
first you check your REALITY (and not REALTY) of your life and then try to analyze other things. Indian Army is not gonna recommend you for saying that their website is very good. Its a website of Indian Army, so it should look like that. If you don’t find any thing wrong, then ckeck out IAF and NAVY websites, u’ll get to know what’s wrong.
Go and find a dictionary to check that word. So pls go and analyze yourself first. C’mon i already got recommended in iaf.
I doubt ut recommendation….if they r taking guys like you then its.not only a problem with website but i also see loop holes in selection process….nobody asked u abt ur recommendation…so there is nothing to boast of it…when all want a change then what the hell is ur problem? Tell me any one guy here on this page supporting you…let me tell u ur nature u can never think for develpment..that might be for urself or our country india
@ Realty check – if u r telling that u are recommended for IAF. let me tell u “I’M RECOMMENDED FOR PRESIDENT OF INDIA”…
haaahaahaaa
“BURGER OFF”
Indian Army doesn’t need to show their professionalism through their website. It is already known by all of us.
So dont use words like worst etc. It only shows your mentality.
Worst is used for website, everyone knows Indian army is great but condition of this website is really need to be improved. You better do not care of it because army will take care of it.
@reality check;
you are wrongly interpreting that what ADMIN wants to convey the message.
M giving you a best example that SSBCRACK has published the TES centre allotment list but that list is not published in joinindianarmy.nic.in.
he simply mean to say that there is a requirment in improvment of that site..so that we can be able to take information more fastly and esly..
moreover as you say that the standard of army is much high so it must be reflect out from that also…
no doubt INDIAN ARMY gives great warrior to our country..
hope you’ll understand this… 🙂
Can you tell me from where ssbcrack get the TES centre allotment list, i think if you type about this in search engine you will get a indianarmy link and can see them directly.
So tell me one thing when the results are not announced why they are writing like that. They need to provide when they are officialy declared. Think using your mind not your heart.
m unable to find TES 29 centre allotment list from joinindianarmy..thats why i wrote that..
SEE THAT CLOUSE instead of CLOSE in that…
don’t take this post on your heart
Hey man dont go on to vocab and spelling mistakes. You can find mistakes on any website.
Here is the official link,
http://joinindianarmy.nic.in/writereaddata/MainMenu210+2tes29Centreallot.pdf
actual link should be in the candidate status given in that, but it is somewhere else
thats the point .. i think u’ll never understand that…
okk u win i loose.. 🙂
Indian Army doesn’t ask you that why its career website is important, they know it better than you.
Defence jobs are totally different from other jobs.
What Indian Army, its people like you who make Indian Army, and their is a scope of improvement every where. Cant you see the condition of the website, are you really that dumb??
I know well about the condition of the website. It will provide you enough information not more mor less.
And when you know that we people make Indian Army so do not blame them, you are saying just because you are also hosting a website.
You dont want to know the reason behind the website condition, you just want to show off your web management.
I agree on something you said above, joinindianarmy is powered by PECS which is a pvt firm, so they do all the design and development, but its Army who opted them to do it, so only army can ask them to improve it. My web management need lot of improvement still so that aspirants may get information more easily and quick.
Dont blame anyone. Allright…
TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU ADMIN. MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE,BEFORE FEW YEARS I TRIED BUT I DINT FIND ANY RELATED INFO ABOUT JOB,VACANCY AND SSB…