Agniveers to get 20 PC reservations in state police recruitment: Haryana CM Nayab Singh Saini

Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini said on Sunday that he would provide 20% reservations for “agniveers” in police recruitment in the state. In July 2024, months before the state legislative polls, the state’s BJP government announced that it had booked 10% in terms of recruiting police officers, forest guards and prison wardens, and quotas for other positions.

Saini, who chaired a review meeting in Panchkula, said Haryana was the first state in the country to secure the future of agnivers by rules to create work after the service period of the armed forces.

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According to an official statement, the chief minister said 20% of the reservations would be provided for recruiting state police.

Saini said Angnivers will be able to find jobs in Haryana after their military service, and for this, a portal for them to register themselves will be created. He added that thereafter, they will receive job priorities based on educational qualifications.

During the meeting, officials told Seni that during the 2023-24 period, 2,893 protesters were recruited in the Army, and the Navy and Air Force recruited 2,227 in 2022-23. Protesters in Haryana who want to pass self-employed or entrepreneurial spirit will provide loans at affordable rates. In addition to that, if the industry hires protesters at a price of more than Rs 30,000 a month, the government will provide subsidies of Rs 60,000 to those industries, the statement said. Angry people who want to serve as private security personnel will give priority to gun permits. It said that for this, they will have to apply on the portal.

The Agnipath program was established by the Centre in June 2022 and offers the recruitment of young people aged between 17 and 6 months and recruits 21 years in four years, and provides for the retention of 25% of these ages for 15 years.

Shortly after the announcement of the plan, then-Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said the state government would provide guaranteed employment to Agnivers after four years of service in the armed forces.

Haryana Chief Secretary Anurag Rastogi attended Sunday’s meeting, with Sainik and Vijayendra Kumar, chief secretary of the Ministry of Paramilitary Welfare, other chief secretary of the Chief Secretary and Chief Minister Saket Kumar.