27 Jun the battle with grey and stone-grey issues, and hard questions that need lucid answers
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The rising average age of defence personnel, mounting pension and salary bills, or the need to spare more money to modernise the forces: What could possibly be the rationale behind the decision to hire the youths for short services under the Agnipath scheme?
Violent protests, torched vehicles, burned-down trains, vandalised train stations, damaged private and public properties. The Agnipath scheme to recruit defence personnel for short services has indeed put its opposers on a path of fire. Was it supposed to pan out like this? And why has the government decided to recruit soldiers, who will be referred to as Agniveers after induction, for just four years? There are two sides to this story. On one
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