The Punjab Vidhan Sabha on Thursday passed a resolution against the Centre’s Agnipath defence recruitment scheme. Protests had erupted in various parts of the country, including Punjab and Haryana, after the Centre unveiled the Agnipath scheme to recruit youngsters aged between 17-and-a-half and 21 years in the army, navy and air force, largely on a four-year contractual basis. Participating in …
The Rajasthan government on Saturday unanimously passed a resolution demanding the withdrawal of the Centre’s ‘Agnipath’ scheme for contractual recruitment of youth to the armed forces that has seen mass protests and violence across the country over the past few days. The ministers, in a statement, said the aspiring youth of the nation is apprehensive towards the Centre's Agnipath scheme. …
