The Narendra Modi government has launched a new recruitment scheme called Agneepath. Under the new scheme, youth between the age group of 17-21 years will be recruited into the Indian Armed Forces for a period of four years. The youth who will be recruited under this scheme will be known as Agniveer. Under this scheme 50,000 personnel will be recruited every year. The new scheme will reduce the average age of the Indian Armed Forces from 32 years to 26 years. This will also reduce the earlier expenditure for pension. Therefore, on the one hand, the scheme brings about modernization, and on the other, it reduces expenditure.
In today’s DNA, Zee News Editor-in-Chief Sudhir Choudhary analyzes the Defense Ministry’s new plan to recruit young officers for a period of four years.
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The new scheme of the government can be summed up in five points:
1) This scheme will be implemented in all the three services – Army, Navy and Air Force. Recruitment will be done only on posts below officer rank i.e. non-commissioned rank.
2) Personnel between the age of 17-21 years will be eligible for these roles. He will only serve with the force for four years. The personnel will get training for initial 6 months and later they will be sent to work on various roles. He will retire on completion of 4 years tenure.
3) The government will provide a beef package to these firefighters on their retirement.
In the first year, he will get a salary of Rs 30,000. Out of 30,000, he will get Rs 21,000 in hand and Rs 9,000 will be deposited in his retirement fund. In the second year, the salary will increase to Rs 33,000; In the third year the salary will be Rs 36,500 and in the last year it will increase to Rs 40,000. Out of this, Rs 12,000 will be deposited in his retirement fund every year. So, the salary will start from Rs 21,000 (in hand) in the first year, and will go up to Rs 28,000 in the last year.
4) Government will open these vacancies twice in a year. This year the government has set a target of recruiting 46,000 ‘Agnivars’. The government aims to recruit 50,000 officers every year from next year.
5) Recruitment under the scheme will be on the basis of All India merit. Till now, recruitment was done on the basis of regiment in the armed forces, under which soldiers were recruited on the basis of region and caste – eg. Maratha Regiment, Jat Regiment, Sikh Regiment etc.
Now any citizen of India can take admission in any regiment. And in the next 10 years, the government wants to end the regimental system of recruitment from the army.
Watch DNA to understand in detail the new policy of the government to recruit youth in the army.