PM Modi, Defence Minister Singh interact with Agniveers

Through video-conferencing’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Defense Minister Rajnath Singh interacted with Agniveers on Monday. 

Earlier on 14 June 2022, the Agnipath scheme was announced for the three services, which will recruit between the ages of 17 and a half years and 21 years for four years and later, it was extended to 23 years.

“We have received 458 candidates for the ‘Agniveer’ training programme. They will undergo 10 weeks of basic training. It’s a well-calibrated output-oriented programme and the Indian Army is working on it. So that the candidates will be a ‘fit for fight’ soldiers. Thereafter they will undergo technical training under 1 EME training centre and others. The technology is infused for both phases in terms of simulators and in terms of equipment. In coming days, these Agniveers will deliver the nation’s interest,” Brig Suresh G, Commandant briefed on 11 January. 

Meanwhile, the Training Center of the Corps of Electronics and Mechanical Engineering (CEME) in Secunderabad, Bharat Bhushan, IIS, and ADG (Media and Communications) visited the place. 

“The recruitment process has been completed. The Indian Army alone has recruited 19,000 candidates for Agniveers. The Air Force and Navy have also recruited candidates. The overall target for this financial year is to recruit 46,000 candidates. The army is going to get more youthful, better skilled and more technically capable soldiers,” said Bharat Bhushan Babu, IIS said. 

“If some of them rise up to levels required by the Army, they will get a chance to join the army as a regular soldier. It is going to be a game changer,” Babu stated.