The Haryana government on Wednesday announced a 10 per cent reservation for Agniveers in certain government jobs. Chief minister Nayab Saini said the state government will provide 10 percent horizontal (lateral) reservation to Agniveers in Haryana in direct recruitment to the posts of constable, mining guard, forest guard, jail warden and SPO.
Announcing the quota, the chief minister said the Agnipath scheme, implemented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 14, 2022, was a welfare scheme of the government.”Youths are trained in the Army for four years. Our government has decided to provide certain quota to these youths (Agniveers after they finish their four years in the Army),” the chief minister said.
Reservation for Agniveers: What Haryana CM announced
Announcing the quota, the chief minister said the Agnipath scheme, implemented by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 14, 2022, was a welfare scheme of the government.”Youths are trained in the Army for four years. Our government has decided to provide certain quota to these youths (Agniveers after they finish their four years in the Army),” the chief minister said.
Reservation for Agniveers: What Haryana CM announced
- 10% horizontal (lateral) reservation to Agniveers in the posts of constable, mining guard, forest guard, jail warden and SPO.
- Age waiver of three years for Agniveers in Group B, C employment
- 5 years of age waiver for the first batch of Agniveers.
- 5% horizontal reservation in civil posts in Group C jobs, 1% for Group B jobs.
- If Agniveer is given a salary of more than Rs 30,000 per month by any industrial unit, then Haryana will give a subsidy of Rs 60,000 per annum to that industrial unit.
- Agniveers to get Rs 5 lakh loan if they want to start business.
The announcements came as the Congress has been doubling down the BJP government over the scheme calling Agniveers ‘use-and-throw labourers’. Parliament witnessed uproar over the scheme with Lok Sabha Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi alleging that the government was discriminating Agniveers. Defence minister Rajnath Singh said the Agnipath recruitment scheme was rolled out after taking suggestions from 158 organizations, after a lot of thought.
In the Agnipath scheme, youths between the age bracket of 17-and-half years and 23 are recruited in the Army for four years with a provision to retain 25 per cent of them for 15 more years.