The Agneepath scheme, recently brought by the central government, is being discussed across the country. Some defense experts are questioning this new plan of the government, while some are supporting it. A TB debate has been organized on Aaj Tak regarding this scheme, in which Col Dinesh Naine (Retd) raised many questions.
Colonel Naine said that we have a big border with China and Pakistan, which cannot be protected by any AI or any other means. To protect the border, you will need a professional trained soldier, whose number you are going to reduce to 25 percent. He further said that every year more than 60 thousand soldiers retire from the army. Has anyone ever hired these people by a private company?
Questioning the Agneepath scheme, he said that 4 years job will have 6 months training, few months holidays and job will be for 2 years only. So what can he learn?
He further said that the present structure of the army has made you win the Kargil war in 1947, 1965, 1971 and 1999. want to put Making a big allegation, he said that there is an IAS lobby which wants to bring down the standard of our army and people of our politics are not understanding this.
On this, BJP spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi said that we have formed CDS, whose rank is above the cabinet secretary. Defense is the only ministry where the rank of cabinet secretary is above that of the army chief. Please do not associate this with the IAS lobby. He said that when Agniveer comes out of the army, his age will be where people start their career. Don’t you think any Agniveer will do better than others in police or other recruitment.