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Army, Airforce, and Navy. The youth who will become Agniveer NEW JOBS TO 10 LAKH YOUTH IN
after the 10th will get the 12th certificate from the army itself. ONE AND A HALF YEAR
Under this scheme, about 46000 youth will be recruited this
year for four years period. Women can also participate in the
recruitment process. Such recruitments will be conducted
every year.
SALARY AND FACILITIES
In the first year, Agniveer will get a monthly salary of
Rs 30,000, out of which Rs 9,000 will be deposited in
the service fund. The army will also deposit the same
amount in Agniveer's account. 33,000 thousand a
month will be paid in the second year, Rs 36,500 a
month in the third year, and Rs 40,000 a month for the
fourth year. Along with it, ration, uniform and traveling
allowance will be given as per rules.
An amount of Rs 11.71 lakh will be given to Agniveer
as a service fund on completion of four years and it will There is good news for the candidates
be tax-free. Agniveer will not get the benefit of pension preparing for the government job. In the
or gratuity. coming 1.5 years, the government will fill
Non-contributory life insurance cover of Rs 48 lakhs. ten lakh posts in various departments. This
Additional ex gratia, disability compensation of Rs 44 recruitment will be conducted under various
lakh on death during military service. They will also departments and ministries of the central
be given a lump sum of Rs 44, 25, and 15 lakh as government. That is, about 1850 people
disability compensation on disability of 75, 50, and 25 will be given employment every day. After
percent respectively. reviewing the status of vacancies in all
departments and ministries, Prime Minister
SKILL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES Narendra Modi has instructed to complete
An attempt has also been made to boost the the order of giving these jobs on mission
mode i.e. at the earliest. The new jobs will
perspective for jobs in other sectors for the Agniveers be available in central government ministries
recruited under this scheme once they complete their and departments such as post, defense
job tenure. Technical training, diploma, or further (civil), railways, and revenue, among others.
education opportunities will be given during their army It is worth noting that last year, Union Minister
assignment. This will make it easier for them to get a of State Jitendra Singh, in response to a
job in the corporate world. question in the Rajya Sabha, had told that
as of March 1, 2020, 8.72 lakh posts were
IMPORTANT INITIATIVES FOR ARMED FORCES vacant in central government departments.
In such a situation, it is clear that at present
Every year around 60,000 personnel retires from the
this figure would have increased to close to
Indian Army. The army had been organizing more
10 lakhs, for which PM Narendra Modi has
than 100 rallies for open recruitment for these vacant ordered initiating recruitment. Jitendra Singh
posts. Now they can be recruited through the Agnipath had told that there are a total of 40 lakh 4
scheme. thousand posts in all the departments of the
The objective of the Agnipath scheme is to reduce central government, out of which about 31
the average age of soldiers serving in the ranks of the lakh 32 thousand employees are appointed.
In this way, there is a need for recruitment of
army. At present, the average age of a soldier is 32
8.72 lakh posts.
years but after the new recruitment scheme, it will be
reduced to 26 years.
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