Agnipath Scheme News: According to Lt Gen BS Raju, the Agnipath scheme has been designed as a job giving entrepreneur, not a government job.
Agnipath Scheme News: Regarding the new scheme of recruitment in the army, Agnipath, Deputy Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General BS Raju, says that it has been brought after a well thought out. If there is a need to make any changes in this scheme, then it will be done at the end of the fourth or fifth year. He said these things in a conversation with the Indian Express on Monday.
The interview took place on the same day as the notification regarding mandatory online registration for Agneepath was issued. The lieutenant general called it a pilot project and said that this is a principled change in the selection process of the armed forces and people need to accept this change. Let us inform that youth are protesting in many parts of the country regarding this scheme.
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What can be the changes in the plan?
According to Raju, nothing can be said about what changes can happen. If there is a need to change the method of selection, percentage of retention-extension or any such rule, then it will be done on the basis of four-five years’ experience at the end of fourth or fifth year when sufficient data is available.
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Refusal to implement the plan in haste
The Agneepath plan has been implemented in haste, Lt Gen BS Raju has denied this. This is being said because within a few days of the implementation of the scheme, first the government has increased the maximum age limit (for this time) for recruitment from 21 years to 23 years, after four years out of the army. Important announcements like CAPF (Central Armed Police Forces), 10 percent Coast Guard and Defense PSUs, preference in state police services were made to ex-firemen. In such a situation, Raju said that this is an add-on on which the government had already considered.
‘Not a government job, a scheme to make entrepreneurs’
According to Raju, this scheme has been designed not to give pension after four years but to make them more capable youth. He said that this scheme is not designed as a government job, rather it aims at skilling the youth, placing them in an environment where they have many opportunities in front of them so that they can become entrepreneurs themselves.
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Why are the youth opposed?
Protests are taking place in many parts of the country regarding the Agneepath scheme and it has turned violent in some places. The youth were waiting for military recruitment from the year 2020 when its selection process was put on hold. When the new scheme came, there is no guarantee of permanent job in it and there is no pension-health benefits for those who will leave the army after four years, due to this the youth are opposing the new scheme of military recruitment. Apart from this, a limited number of recruitment is being done under this.