Months forward of the meeting polls, Haryana’s BJP authorities introduced on Wednesday 10 per cent reservation for Agniveers within the recruitment of constables, forest guards and jail wardens, together with quotas in different posts.
Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini additionally stated that within the recruitment for civil posts in Group B and Group C, the federal government has determined to grant Agniveers a leisure of three years within the higher age restrict. “Nevertheless, for the primary batch of Agniveers, this age leisure will likely be 5 years,” he added.
Saini stated his authorities may even present Agniveers 5 per cent reservation in direct recruitments for civil posts in Group C and one per cent in Group B.
Whereas Group B refers to gazetted posts within the state authorities, Group C includes non-gazetted posts equivalent to clerks.
“In direct recruitment to posts of constable, mining guard, forest guard, jail warden and particular police officer made by the state authorities, there will likely be 10 per cent horizontal reservation for Agniveers,” the chief minister stated at a press convention right here.
“If any industrial unit employs an Agniveer at a wage of greater than Rs 30,000 per 30 days, then our authorities will give that unit an annual subsidy of Rs 60,000,” he stated.
Saini additionally introduced that if an Agniveer takes a mortgage of as much as Rs 5 lakh to begin a enterprise, no curiosity will likely be charged on it.
He additionally launched an assault on the opposition Congress and accused it of spreading “misinformation” concerning the Agnipath navy recruitment scheme. “This scheme has been introduced in public curiosity,” Saini stated.
He additionally introduced that Agniveers will get arms licences on a precedence foundation. Agniveers searching for employment in authorities departments, boards or companies will likely be given precedence within the matrix rating, Saini added.
The Agnipath scheme, launched by the BJP authorities on the Centre in June 2022 for short-term induction of personnel within the armed forces, has confronted extreme criticism from a number of quarters, together with opposition events.
Within the run-up to the just lately held Lok Sabha polls, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi had stated in Haryana’s Mahendragarh that the Agniveer scheme can be scrapped and thrown within the dustbin if the opposition INDIA bloc got here to energy.
In 2022, days after the scheme was introduced by the Centre, the then-chief minister of Haryana Manohar Lal Khattar had stated the state authorities would offer assured employment to Agniveers after their four-year stint within the armed forces.
The Agnipath scheme supplies for recruiting youths between the age bracket of 17-and-half years and 21 for 4 years with a provision to retain 25 per cent of them for 15 extra years.
