'Agnipath' scheme: Govt unveils radical changes in recruitment of soldiers

 

India on Tuesday revealed a "extraordinary" conspire called "Agnipath" for the enrollment of warriors into the Army, the Navy and the Air Force generally on a momentary legally binding premise with a mean to cut the swelling compensation and benefits charges and empower an energetic profile of the military.

Protection Minister Rajnath Singh gave subtleties of the new drive at a media preparation soon after the Prime Minister-drove Cabinet Committee on Security supported the plan which the public authority said would permit "energetic and roused" youth to serve in the military for a time of four years.

"Under the 'Agnipath' plot, Indian youth will be given a chance to serve in the military as 'Agniveer'. This plan has been brought to fortify the security of the country. It is an extraordinary plan," Singh said in presence of the three help bosses.

He said the implantation of trained, propelled and gifted 'Agniveers' back into society after military help, would be an extraordinary resource for the country as it will be a "shared benefit recommendation".

Depicting it a significant guard strategy change to introduce "another time" in the human asset strategy of the three administrations, the safeguard service said the plan comes into prompt impact and will oversee the enrolment for the three administrations, suggesting that current structure of work for fighters will fail to exist....CONTINUE READING

Chasing govt jobs, desperate youth flock coaching hubs year after year

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GN Shakya is a veteran of Allahabad’s test preparation centres. Like many others, he has been in pursuit of a secure government job for years--in his case, 16 years. During this time, he has amassed five degrees (BA, MA, LLB, B.Ed and M.Ed), and performed odd-jobs, all while studying for the professional examinations. “What work will we do when half our life goes by in finding a job?” he asked when we visited in early April 2019.

This near-dejection has not caught hold of Deepak Maurya yet. Dressed in a white vest and shorts, the 17-year-old has just completed his 12th grade exams and taken a train to Allahabad, “taiyyari ke liye”--“to prepare”.

Maurya is staying with a relative in a room in one of the many lodges in the neighborhoods around the University of Allahabad.

This particular lodge houses about 20 people in a handful of 8ft by 9ft rooms, all of them doing taiyyari--for competitive exams for government jobs.

The test-preparation industry thrives in many parts of India, some of the most prominent in the north being Delhi; Allahabad, which attracts aspirants from eastern Uttar Pradesh; Jaipur and Jodhpur in Rajasthan; as well as smaller cities such as Sikar in the eponymous district in Rajasthan for those who cannot afford to go to big cities such as Jaipur.

Localities such as Vivek Vihar in Jaipur, Katra and Baghada neighbourhoods of Allahabad, and Mukherji Nagar, Rajendra Nagar and Munirka in Delhi, contain concentrations of the educated unemployed--those who constitute India’s historic demographic potential, vying for a shrinking pool of secure employment opportunities.


 In near-identical neighbourhoods across these cities, thousands of youngsters spend some of their most productive years preparing for exams that may or may not get them government jobs.