Agnipath aftermath
Some of the tweaks to the Agnipath scheme — an afterthought — are too little a concession to calm the anger of frustrated job aspirants. Unless their principal grievance of a drastically reduced tenure of four years for 75% of such men without any post-release benefits is withdrawn and tenure rules existing till now are restored, the agitations are only likely to intensify. Even from the military point of view, such radical changes in the recruitment rules seem totally unwarranted. Letting such trained soldiers go home after barely four years of service does not make any military sense either. The least the Government can do is to suspend the scheme.
S.K. Choudhury,
