Agniveer Protest News Today

Industry leaders Anand Mahindra and Harsh Goenka have offered jobs to Agniveers. Several others have supported the scheme, saying it would benefit the industry by providing "trained and disciplined youth".

After their term ends, thousands of Agniveers would be at the mercy of the Department of Ex-servicemen Welfare for re-employment, which has done little or nothing to resettle ex-servicemen, say protesters.

Many took to Twitter to say that the new short-term recruitment scheme could compromise fitness and professionalism in the forces.