Consultative Committee for Defence Ministry to meet over Agnipath Scheme on July 8
New Delhi [India], July 6: Ahead of the Monsoon Session of Parliament and amid the nationwide protest over Agnipath scheme, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh will preside a meeting of the Consultative Committee for the Ministry of Defense on July 8.
While addressing a media, a committee source said, "The agenda of this meeting has been kept on Agnipath scheme. It is believed that in the meeting, the MPs will be given detailed information about the Agnipath scheme on behalf of the Defense Ministry.”
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Presently, the committee comprises of 13 members of the Lok Sabha and 7 MPs of the Rajya Sabha.
Committee also includes many senior leaders and Opposition leaders which are Mallikarjun Kharge, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, Sudip Bandopadhyay, Manish Tewari, Farooq Abdullah and Rakesh Singh.
The upcoming Monsoon Session of Parliament, to be held from July 18.
The Union Cabinet approved the Agnipath scheme on June 14 and the youth selected under this scheme will be known as Agniveers. The government had announced that 46,000 Agniveers to be recruited this year. It had said that the armed forces will have "a younger, fitter, diverse profile" to face future challenges.
The Ministry of Defence, in its statement, had said that the Agnipath scheme has been designed to enable a youthful profile of the Armed Forces.
This is a major defence policy reform introduced by the Government to usher in a new era in the Human Resource policy of the three Services.
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There have been protests against the Agnipath scheme in some states and the government has announced support measures to allay apprehensions.
-PTC News
