Congress chief Anil Kumar Yadav Mandadi had questioned the central authorities in regards to the scarcity within the military. In response to this query, the Ministry of Protection refused to share knowledge associated to the scarcity of troopers within the armed forces, citing nationwide safety. Minister of State for Protection Sanjay Seth gave a written reply to this within the Rajya Sabha on Monday (August 5, 2024). He stated in his tackle that the data sought by the Congress chief is a delicate matter associated to nationwide safety and disclosing such knowledge wouldn’t be within the nationwide curiosity.
On March 13, 2023, Ajay Bhatt, the then Minister of State within the Ministry of Defence, stated that, as of March 10, 2023, the Military had 8,070 officer vacancies and 127,673 vacancies amongst Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs) and Different Ranks (OR). Aside from this, he had knowledgeable that between January 1, 2023 and March 10, 2023, 613 officer posts and 19,065 JCO/OR posts had been stuffed.
The current change in coverage relating to recruitment has come after the launch of the Agneepath scheme on June 14, 2022. Underneath the Agneepath scheme, troopers are recruited for a interval of 4 years, wherein a most of 1.75 lakh personnel will likely be recruited by the yr 2026.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge wrote a submit on social media platform Narendra Modi Tagging him, he criticized the central authorities for accusing it of hiding details about the scarcity of troopers within the military.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge stated that the federal government had disclosed such knowledge earlier as nicely and why this observe has all of the sudden modified now. Citing the information supplied in March 2023, he stated that at the moment greater than 1.55 lakh posts had been vacant within the military.
