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Business News/ News / India/  Agnipath recruitment: 10,000 females register for Indian navy in 3 days. Read here
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Agnipath recruitment: 10,000 females register for Indian navy in 3 days. Read here

This is the first time, the Indian Navy has allowed women to be recruited as sailors in the force who would also be deployed on warships as per operational requirements

This is the first time, the Indian Navy has allowed women to be recruited as sailors in the force who would also be deployed on warships as per operational requirementsPremium
This is the first time, the Indian Navy has allowed women to be recruited as sailors in the force who would also be deployed on warships as per operational requirements

NEW DELHI : The Indian Navy started the registration for Agnipath recruitment scheme on 1 July. It has been reported that around 10,000 females have registered for the process within days of opening the portal.

The Indian Navy had announced the commencement of the registration process under the Agnipath recruitment scheme on 1 July. After the registrations, the Indian Navy would open up the online application process for recruitment starting from 15 July to 30 July.

This is the first time, the Indian Navy has allowed women to be recruited as sailors in the force who would also be deployed on warships as per operational requirements. However, the Navy is yet to finalise the final number of women among the 3000 naval 'Agniveers' that it will induct in 2022.

"Around 10,000 female candidates had registered themselves till Sunday," government officials told news agency ANI.

The Navy is making arrangements at INS Chilka, the premier basic training establishment for sailors of the Indian Navy, on November 21. The establishment will also have facilities for training the women sailors there.

"The Agnipath scheme in the Navy will be gender-neutral. As we speak, 30 women officers are sailing on board frontline warships. We have decided that the time has come to recruit women sailors as well, and in all trades which will include women who will go to sea," Navy officials had stated.

Armed forces had been inducting women into the 14-lakh strong military forces since the 1990s but only at officer ranks. This changed in 2019-20 were from the Indian Army began recruiting women in other ranks for the first time.

As a result of this, 100 women jawans are presently Corps of Military Police (CMP).

The "transformative" Agnipath scheme, announced by Union Minister Rajanath Singh on 14 June, in the presence of the three service chiefs provides for the recruitment of into the armed services of youths in the age bracket of 17-and-a-half-years to 21 for only four years with a provision to retain 25 per cent of them for 15 more years. The Centre later extended the upper age limit to 23 years for recruitment in 2022.

There have been protests against the Agnipath scheme in several states and the government has announced support measures to allay apprehensions.

The Union Cabinet had also approved 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 will be recruited this year. It had said that armed Forces will have "a younger, fitter, diverse profile" to face future challenges.

 

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Published: 04 Jul 2022, 03:38 PM IST
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