ECHS Recruitment 2023 - Apply for 196 Officer in Charge, Medical Officer, Dental Officer, Lab Assisatant, and Other Posts

About the company

ECHS stands for Ex – Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme. It comes under the department of ESW, of ministry of Defence

The concept of the ECHS is to manage via the current infrastructure of the armed forces in order to lessen the administrative spending. The current infrastructure comprises of control and command structure, procurement associations for medical and non medical equipment, extra capacity of service medical facilities in several hospitals and MI Rooms, defence buildings and other lands etc.

In the direction to make certain that minimal disruption of the scheme takes place during war or training and also the availability of their services in non military areas beyond stated capitals that are being supplemented by them are as follows :-

a. Supplementing in effect medical facilities and clinics in more or less particular military stations to supply for heavy ESM load that is the Augmented Armed Forces Clinics.
b. also to establish new armed forces polyclinics in the fields of Non Military areas.
c. to handle finances.

d. Finally to Empanel several diagnostic centres and civil hospitals.

Application procedure for ECHS

For most of the positions, the mode of application is through post or courier or by hand, in some cases they accept applications via email. There would be an application form along with their official notification that can be downloaded from their downloads page. Interested candidate can download the application form, get a print out and then duly fill the form, sign it and then enclose all the self attested photocopies of documents and certificates that they mention in their notification such as qualification supporting documents, experience, age proof, training, etc. All these have to be enclosed and send to the address they mentioned in the notification. The application form and those supporting documents have to reach them before the deadline. They do not entertain any applications that reach after the deadline.

Selection process:

Most of the jobs recruited by them are on a temporary or contractual basis, they initially recruit the candidates on a short term or temporary contractual basis and they extend the duration of the job if the performance of the candidate is satisfactory. But they are not permanent positions.

For initial screening, the shortlisting of the candidates is done based on the merit list. Candidates will get placed only if the applicants qualify for all the necessary requirements mentioned in the advertisement. The mode of selection for almost all the posts is through face to face interviews.

Various job roles that are notified by Ex – Servicemen Contributory Health Scheme

In the vacancies page of their official website, they clearly mention the vacancies according to regional centres. They specify the vacancies in their regional centres such as Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Ambala, Bareilly, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Jalandhar, etc. most of the vacancies are on a contractual basis, and that would be specified there clearly. They release notifications for a wide range of roles such as medical specialist, medical officer, lab technician, nursing assistant, physiotherapist, pharmacist, dental hygienist, data entry operator, driver, clerk, cleaners,  and many such jobs.