{"id":9591,"date":"2022-10-16T09:27:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T03:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9591"},"modified":"2025-03-29T14:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T08:46:23","slug":"agniveer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/agniveer\/","title":{"rendered":"Agniveer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Agniveer:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The features and benefits offered under Agniveer Salary Package are similar to the Defence Salary Package.<\/li>\n<li>The first batch of Agniveers under the &#8220;Agnipath Scheme&#8221; will be joining Training Centres by January 2023.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Agnipath scheme<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Defence Minister Rajnath Singh recently announced the \u201cAgnipath\u201d scheme, for recruitment of youth in the armed forces for four years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Enrolment<\/strong>: Enrolment to all three services will be through a centralised online system, with special rallies and campus interviews at recognised technical institutes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Eligibility criteria:<\/strong>\u00a0The new system is only for\u00a0<strong>personnel below officer ranks<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Recruitment<\/strong>: It will be carried out on an \u2018All India All Class\u2019 basis with the eligibility age ranging from\u00a0<strong>17.5\u00a0to 21 years<\/strong>, with medical and physical fitness standards in accordance with existing norms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Salary package<\/strong>: Agniveers will receive\u00a0<strong>Rs 33,000 in the second year, Rs 36,500 in the third year and Rs 40,000 in the fourth year.\u00a0<\/strong>They will get Rs 11.71 lakh as Seva Nidhi Package after four years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Qualification<\/strong>: The required educational qualification will be\u00a0<strong>Class X-XII.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Reselection<\/strong>: For those who are re-selected, the initial four-year period will not be considered for retirement benefits.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Permanent Commission<\/strong>: Up to 25% of each batch will be enrolled as regular cadre as under permanent commission and would be required to serve for a further minimum period of 15 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.com\/2022\/10\/15\/army-signs-historic-mou-with-11-banks-for-agniveer-salary-package\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">All India Radio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agnipath scheme aims to recruit youth in armed forces for four years for personnel below officer ranks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9591","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}