Agni pareeksha

Agnipath promises to hire only about 46,000 people initially; this would be increased in subsequent years

The government announced two hiring programmes during the week that began on June 13, but angry protesters set ablaze public property through the week. On June 14, the government announced that the Prime Minister had instructed that a million people must be employed by the various government ministries over the next 18 months on mission mode. The emphasis was on providing employment to the youth. This is ambitious and a very big announcement. To place this number in perspective, India added 2.8 million jobs in 2019-20, the last normal year, in a sense. The addition of a million jobs by