New Delhi:
The National General Secretary of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) has given a statement on ‘Agniveers’ which may have sparked sort of a controversy. He was speaking in Indore, Madhya Pradesh when he made the following statement.
He said that, “I will give preference to an Agniveer to hire him as security in BJP office, even you can…People have faith in army men”.
In accordance with the Agnipath scheme which was recently rolled out by the Ministry of Defence for recruitment of people into Army, Navy and Air Force. The rank that will be given to these recruited people will be ‘Agniveers’. The candidates who will be employed under this scheme will receive around 40 to 45 thousand rupees every month. The age limit of these candidates will be 17 to 21 years.
As per the government, the scheme will be active and initiate recruitments within 90 days. At the preliminary stage, the Army will garner 40,000 ‘Agniveers’, the Navy will garner 3000 ‘Agniveers’ and the Air Force will garner 3,500 ‘Agniveers’.
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