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The Agneepath scheme, announced on June 14, 2022, provides for recruitment of youth in the age group of 17 and a half years to 21 years for only four years, with a provision to retain 25 per cent of them for 15 more years. The government increased the upper age limit to 23 years later that year.
In a welcome move for Agniveers under the government's Agneepath scheme, the Centre has reserved 10 per cent of constable posts in the Central Armed Police Forces for former Agniveers. The government will also give exemption in the physical efficiency test of the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) headquarters. CISF Director General Neena Singh said that CISF has also made all the preparations in this regard.
The Agneepath scheme, announced on June 14, 2022, provides for recruiting youths in the age group of 17-and-a-half years to 21 years for only four years, with a provision to retain 25 per cent of them for 15 more years. The government raised the upper age limit to 23 years later that year. Amid the controversy over the Agneepath scheme as the opposition cornered the government in the recently concluded Parliament session, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh refuted the claims of Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi in the Lok Sabha on the Agneepath military recruitment scheme, saying it was launched after taking suggestions from 158 organisations.
Singh, who intervened when Gandhi was speaking on the motion of thanks on the President's address, also said that Agniveers who give up their lives in the line of duty receive a compensation of Rs 1 crore. The Union minister asked Gandhi not to mislead Parliament and also requested Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to dismiss the former Congress president's claims on the Agneepath scheme. Referring to the military recruitment scheme, Gandhi claimed that the government treats Agniveers as “use and throw labourers” and does not even give them the status of “shaheed (martyr)”.
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