Agniveer Scheme: Women to get 20 percent reservation in Agniveer posts in Navy, says Vice Admiral SN Ghormade
As per the Navy Officials, "20% of the candidates in the first batch of Agniveers will be women. They would be sent to different parts and branches of the Navy"
20 percent of the Agniveers to be recruited into the Indian Navy through the Agneepath scheme will be women. Giving information in this regard today, Vice Admiral SN Ghormade, Chief of the Naval Staff, said that 20 percent of the seats in the recruitment through the Agniveer scheme will be for women. The officials said that after that these women would be sent to different parts and branches of the Navy. Significantly, women will also be recruited under the Agneepath scheme in the Army and Air Force. But in the Army and Air Force, this information has not been given so far as to what will be the percentage of women.
Online application for the first batch in the Navy and Army started on July 1. So far more than 10,000 women have applied for this post in the Navy. For the first time in the Navy, women will be recruited as sailors. However, for the first four years, he will be called Agniveer. After four years, only 25% who are permanent in the Navy will be called naval.
The women who will be selected after four years through Agneepath will be posted in every department of the Navy, from warships. At present, 30 women officers are stationed on different warships. About three thousand Agniveers will be recruited in the first batch. The selected Agniveers will be trained for six months at INS Chilka in Odisha from November 21, after which they will be sent for posting.
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