Agniveers get 10% reservation in CISF: Home Ministry

Ministry of Home Affairs today announced a big decision for the Agniveers under the government's Agnipath scheme. The Centre has reserved 10 percent of posts of constables in Central Armed Police forces for ex-Agniveers. The government will also give exemption in the physical efficiency test Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) headquarters.

The CISF has also made all preparations in this regard, informed the CISF DG Neena Singh. The Agnipath scheme, announced on June 14, 2022, provides for the recruitment of youths between the age bracket of 17-and-half years and 21 for only four years, with a provision to retain 25 percent of them for 15 more years. The government extended the upper age limit to 23 years later that year.

Amid row over the Agnipath scheme, as the Opposition cornered the government in the recently concluded Parliament session, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh rebutted Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi's claims in the Lok Sabha on the Agnipath military recruitment scheme saying it was rolled out after taking suggestions from 158 organisations.

Singh, who intervened when Rahul Gandhi was speaking on the Motion of Thanks to the President's address, also said that an Agniveer who lays down his life in the line of duty gets a compensation of Rs 1 crore.