Thread by @ColSanjayPande

1/ LONG THREAD

Last and Concluding Part - 4 on #AGNIPATH and #AGNIVEER

Title - STRAIGHT TALK

is about analysing every affected party and watching their (changing) stances each day and my take on the scheme.

Day to day changes. Soon as protests, some violent, started,.......

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.....day to day changes happened. It starts with:
•Next day upper age limit extended
•10% CAPF vacancies announced.
•Bank loan priority notified
•UGC Skill Recognition declared
•Open schooling announcement
•10% MoD job vacancies

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It now is:
•Assam Government will absorb 100% Agniveers.
•It was a well thought out project being worked from two years.
•It is a Pilot Project
•Haryana Govt will absorb all
•Corporates line up to absorb.

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•Director General Resettlement comes on scene for the first time after my retirement in 2006.

STAND
-Ruling Party is silent and has sent three to five politicians to media.
-Government is announcing schemes after the protests.

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-Ministry of Defence
-Armed Forces have taken on themselves the role of shield to #Agniveer
-Veterans are vertically split.
-Corporate and ruling part and states are all for absorbing #Agniveers
-Armed Forces at tactical/operational are in shock.

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Ruling Party is silent & has sent three to five politicians to media.

-It is obvious that it is a scheme born in a Political Partys’ office, forced on the Armed Forces through bureaucrats.
-Vintage can be 2 years or 15 days before announcement

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-Ruling party’s Gaziabad MP Gen VK Singh is caught unawares by a reporter and on TV says ‘he has no idea of the scheme’ and after two days he is all over TV defending the scheme.
-Within few days of protests entire corporate world ......

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(obviously, Armed Forces have nothing to give them except defence contracts) and CMs of States where ruling party is same as centre start supporting.
-Ruling Partys MPs announce #Agniveers will be employed as ‘Security Guards’ in Party offices.

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-Another says they will be trained as barbers and electricians.
-Ruling Party has just one topic ‘Agniveers’, nothing on retired soldiers or retiring soldiers.
-Past experience of party with veterans has been in debate since 2015.

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Government is announcing schemes after the protests.
-‘Government’ should be just Ministry of Defence, but in this case even Home Ministry has joined the defences.
-Firefighting by Government and announces new measures almost daily.

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-Proves that Armed Forces had were never involved in discussions in preparatory phase
-Every announcement is outside the preview and power of Armed Forces.
-It gives an impression that the Government and Political Party worked in tandem.....

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....while Armed Forces never were taken aboard.
-No one is defending the juvenile document uploaded on the net.

Ministry of Defence
-If the scheme was being made in office of DMA which is part of MoD, why did MoD permit recruitment?

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-Why did MoD not have a solution for candidates recruited in 2021 awaiting call letters.
-Why dis MoD not speak on huge savings by slowly pruning and ultimately closing:
oReduction of Education related personnel in Armed Forces who will not....

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........be required after induction of #Agniveers.
oDirectorate General of Resettlement.
oKendriya Sainik Board
oA plan spread over next decade to digitise keeping #Agniveer induction in mind.

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Armed Forces have taken on themselves the role of shield to #Agniveer

-Were Training Commands of three Services involved in recommending the training of #Agniveer?
-Were Army Commanders and equivalent from Navy and Air Force involved to.....

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...... analyse ‘Operational Impact” on services?
-How is it that the Prime Minister, who attends very high level armed forces conferences has not been invited to any such conference, if held?
-We trust Armed Forces when they say they were......

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........ working on the scheme from two years. Some questions:
oWhy was the scheme so secretively planned and launched when the target client is youth in lacs?
oWhy was recruitment done in Army Navy and Air Force in 2021 if the scheme........

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........ was planned to be launched in 2022?
oWhy did India come to know about recruitment through ‘protests’ across nation?
oWhy are the candidates being threatened? Was the protest not anticipated?
oWhy is there no notification of ........

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.....tests under #Agniveer in press and media to inform candidates?
oWhy have Army, Navy and Army announced different dates of exam and commencement of training?
oWhy is that no one knows step by step selection process?

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oWhy is that all three services recruited candidates and asked them to wait for the joining letters?
-Points given in joint conference are being read along with other actions as mentioned earlier hence they are not convincing.

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-Are we to understand that if the claim of scheme being worked on from two years is correct, a single man with few people assisting decide on a scheme? Or if everyone was involved, why is there no clarity?

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-Who inserted the line ‘Regimentation will be maintained’ and for what reason?

Veterans are vertically split
-The most dismal side of veterans has been seen by India.
-India now knows that there are #PoliticalVeterans , #ApoliticalVeterans ....

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....and #MasqueradingVeterans They will not trust veterans since veterans have displayed that Naam, Namak and Nishan are tradable items.
-How is it that Veterans belonging to same regiment or corps as that of serving are criticising......

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..... the scheme while serving oppose it?
Are they getting their cue from serving? After all behind the stage they are one team.
-With veterans vertically split, the
-Veterans ‘manufacture logic’ to justify the scheme

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- Veterans ‘manufacture logic’ to oppose the scheme
-Party forces serving Retired Generals to defend the scheme
-Serving give absurd logic
-Less said the better.

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Corporate and Ruling Party and States are all for absorbing Agniveers
-Trust the corporate and industry to dance to ruling party’s dictate.
-None will publish data on how many ex-servicemen they have employed over last two decades.

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-Everyone wants to absorb #Agniveers as if Armed Forces are the training institution to feed Corporates and Industry.
-Trust me ONLY JOB they will offer is Security Guard where specialist training is not held by #Agniveer

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COMPLETE FOCUS IS ON AGNIVEERS.
THERE IS ZERO FOCUS ON ARMED FORCES. THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN OF ARMED FORCES IS BEING replaced and none wants to debate it.

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My take:
-In the present form #Agniveer is an ill-conceived, ill-planned and a not-fully-thought out scheme.
-All stake holders have been kept out and a handful have made the scheme probably on directions of ruling party.

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-No mention of FOUR YEAR STINT of a jawan has ever been made in any document, committee, military papers etc., today it cannot be slipped in camouflaged with some report.
-I do not expect roll back.
-Taking as fait accompli, I recommend......

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..#Agniveers be released each year thus over a period of ten years the experience and youth will be correctly balanced and passed over.
-Each year the ‘10%’ be reviewed and the percentage be gradually increased toll the day where the.........

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....... complete higher echelons in personnel below officer rank is manned by #Agniveers.
-Completely change the internal requirements of QR for each rank and induct highly qualified youth under #Agniveer

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-Completely rewrite the training syllabus in Officer Training Academies and train the ‘Next-Gen’ officers who are adept in geopolitics and Junior Command Level knowledge when they are commissioned.

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-We are doomed if the officer class and #Agniveers are at par in knowledge.

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