Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said soldiers recruited under the Central government's 'Agnipath' scheme will be given preference in police recruitment in the State.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, on June 14, unveiled a transformative scheme — 'Agnipath' — for the recruitment of 'Agniveers' [soldiers] in tri-services that include the Army, Navy and the Air Force largely on a four-year short-term contractual basis, in a major overhaul of the decades-old selection process to bring in fitter and younger troops to deal with the future security challenges facing the nation.
