Col Dev News Today

The Agnipath protest turned into a violent outrage across the nation resulting in the burning down of trains, and buses, vandalism of public property worth lakhs and the death of an agitator in Telangana’s Securandabad.

Under the Agnipath scheme, around 46,000 soldiers, between the ages of 17-and-a-half years and 21 years, will be recruited into the three services in a contract for four years. The youth selected under this scheme will be known as ‘Agniveers.’