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India’s Modi government to revise unpopular military short-service scheme
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Army aspirant Ajay Kumar (in striped jacket), 21, said fewer boys are training for the military in his Begusarai town in Bihar, disappointed about the four-year military service without pension.
PHOTO: COURTESY OF AJAY KUMAR
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BENGALURU – A military short-term service scheme that is seen to have cost Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) crucial votes in the just-concluded general election is set to be revised.
Just days into its third term in government, the BJP and its coalition allies have formed a panel of secretaries from at least 10 ministries to review the controversial Agnipath scheme, which was one of its hallmark policies in the previous term.
