Adequate police force has been deployed outside railway and bus stations. All the centres will be under CCTV and drone observation. Police personnel at the centres are equipped with body-worn cameras.
Kanpur: Exmaination under the changed process of centre’s controversial milatry recruitment scheme is scheduled to be conducted on Sunday in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The Kapur police have made the required security arrangement for the examination.
The exam is going to be held in three shifts. The first phase begins at 7:30 Am, the second shift will commence at 11:30 am and the final shift of the exam will start at 3:15 pm. Every shift will have 625 candidates attempting the examination.
A total of 11 centres have been allotted, for the Agniveer exam, out of which six are in Kanpur Outskirts.
More than 33,000 candidates will be appearing for this exam in Kanpur today.
Adequate police force has been deployed outside railway and bus stations. All the centres will be under CCTV and drone observation. Police personnel at the centres are equipped with body-worn cameras.
A Quick Response Team has also been stationed in all the examination centers of Kanpur Nagar.
The Centre on June 14, introduced a new short-term recruitment policy for Indian youth to serve in the armed forces. Termed Agnipath, the scheme will enable military aspirants in the age bracket of 17.5 to 21 to be inducted into any of the three services as “Agniveers” for a four-year tenure.
“Agniveers’ would form a distinct rank in the Indian Army that would be different from any other existing ranks and they can be posted to any regiment and unit.”The army said.
On Friday, Three opposition members today walked out of a meeting of a panel of MPs on defense alleging that they were not allowed to discuss the Agnipath military recruitment scheme.
Congress MPs KC Venugopal, Uttam Kumar Reddy, and Mayawati’s BSP MP Kunwar Danish Ali walked out of the meeting of the Standing Committee on Defence.
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