Via PTI
NEW DELHI: Contending that the Indian Air Power receiving 7.5 lakh packages below the Agnipath scheme used to be now not indicative of its recognition, senior Congress chief P Chidambaram on Thursday stated the “proper conclusion” to be drawn from it’s that the unemployment state of affairs is so excessive that determined youths are prepared to take any task.
The Indian Air Power (IAF) on Tuesday stated it has gained 7.5 lakh packages below the temporary army recruitment scheme Agnipath. The registration procedure below the scheme started on June 24 and ended on Tuesday.
“Reality: 7,50,000 candidates for 3000 posts in IAF below the Agniveer scheme. Fallacious conclusion: the Agniveer scheme is fashionable a few of the early life. Proper conclusion: the unemployment state of affairs is so excessive that determined early life are prepared to take any task,” Chidambaram stated in a tweet.
After the scheme used to be unveiled on June 14, violent protests towards it rocked a number of states for just about every week and more than a few opposition events demanded its withdrawal.
Below the Agnipath scheme, the ones elderly between 17-and-a-half and 21 years shall be inducted into the militia for a four-year tenure and 25 according to cent of them shall be inducted for normal carrier due to this fact.
The federal government had, on June 16, larger the upper-age prohibit for recruitment below the scheme to 23 years from 21 for the yr 2022 and due to this fact, introduced a slew of placatory steps comparable to a desire for “Agniveers” in central paramilitary forces and defence public sector undertakings on their retirement.