The Agnipath scheme gives for the recruitment of youths between the ages of 17-and-half years to 21
New Delhi:
The three service chiefs are set to fulfill Prime Minister Narendra Modi tomorrow to transient him on the ‘Agnipath’ recruitment scheme. The scheme, since its announcement on June 14, has confronted robust protests.
The youth chosen underneath the brand new scheme might be often known as Agniveers.
The Prime Minister, with out immediately mentioning the scheme or the protests, on Sunday stated,” “It’s our nation’s misfortune that many good issues introduced with good intentions get trapped in political colors. Media additionally will get dragged into it as a consequence of its TRP compulsions.”
A day later in Bengaluru, PM Modi once more stated some choices “might look unfair” at first, however will assist in nation-building later.
A number of opposition events, together with the Congress, have dubbed “Agnipath” the most recent blunder of the federal government, a part of a sequence that features demonetisation and the farm legal guidelines. Most of the critics have predicted a rollback.
The navy has declared that this was a long-awaited change in tune with the worldwide pattern that’s more and more focussed on the usage of cutting-edge know-how in warfare and a youthful age profile for troopers that is extra in tune with it. The federal government has dominated out a rollback.
The Agnipath scheme gives for the recruitment of youths between the ages of 17-and-half years to 21 for less than 4 years with a provision to retain 25 per cent of them, whereas the remaining would retire with out gratuity and pension advantages. The federal government has prolonged the higher age restrict to 23 years for recruitment in 2022.
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