Will assure jobs to ‘Agniveers’ from Haryana publish 4 12 months stint: Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar

By PTI

CHANDIGARH: The Haryana authorities will present “guaranteed” employment to ‘Agniveers’ after their 4 12 months stint within the armed forces, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar introduced on Tuesday.

His assertion comes even because the state, like a number of different components of the nation, is witnessing large protests over the Centre’s Agnipath scheme to recruit troopers into the military, navy and the air power adopted by obligatory retirement for many with out gratuity and pension advantages.

Addressing a state-level International Yoga Day perform at Bhiwani, Khattar stated, “I announce that anyone (the Agniveers) who wants to join Haryana government services, they will be given a guaranteed job, no one will go without a job. We take guarantee for this.” The chief minister stated the ‘Agniveers’ will likely be absorbed within the state’s Group C providers and within the police power.

The Centre had final Tuesday unveiled the Agnipath scheme below which youths between 17-and-a-half and 21 years will likely be inducted within the three providers for a four-year tenure. Twenty-five per cent of the recruits will likely be retained for normal service.

The authorities projected this scheme as a significant overhaul of the decades-old choice course of to reinforce the youthful profile of the providers.

On Thursday, it relaxed the higher age restrict to 23 years for recruitment this 12 months as protests towards the scheme intensified.