The three services on Sunday announced the recruitment schedule of ‘Agniveers’ and said all selections of aspirants will now be done through the ‘Agnipath’ policy that was rolled out last Tuesday.
More than 46,000 soldiers will be selected this year for a four-year stint in the Army, Navy and the Indian Air Force (IAF).
Explaining the future path of the scheme, Lieutenant-General Anil Puri, Additional Secretary of the Department of Military Affairs, said here: “In the next four-five years, our intake (of soldiers) will be 50,000-60,000 and will further increase to 90,000-100,000 subsequently. We have started small at 46,000 to analyse the scheme... and to build up our infrastructural capacity.” Lieutenant-General C Bansi Ponnappa, Adjutant-General, said the rallies for Army recruitment will start in the first half of August and the first lot of ‘Agniveers’ will come in by December first week.