Lucknow, Jul 26: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said on Friday that the Agniveers who return after serving the country will be given weightage in UP Police and PAC force.
Adityanath said this while speaking to reporters here at his official residence on Friday evening before leaving for NITI Aayog meeting in Delhi.
“The country will get trained and disciplined young soldiers in the form of Agniveers,” he said.
The UP chief minister said the youth today are getting recruited in Agnipath Yojana with enthusiasm. After this, arrangements are being made to accommodate them in paramilitary and civil police, he said.
“The UP government has also said as the Agniveer scheme progresses and when these youth return after their service, we will provide facility and weightage for their adjustment in UP Police and PAC (Provincial Armed Constabulary) force. We will get trained and disciplined youth as Agniveers. Our government is fully committed to this,” Adityanath said.
Adityanath, while criticising the politics of the opposition on the Agniveer issue, said the work of the opponents is to create obstacles, hindrances and spread rumours in every work of progress and reform, the UP government said in a statement on Friday.
The UP chief minister said under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, India has become the fifth largest economy in the world today. Excellent reforms have taken place in India in the last 10 years.
“We are moving towards self-reliance in the matter of modernisation of the Indian Army and its equipment,” Adityanath said.
He said reforms from time to time are extremely important for any country and society to establish new standards of progress and prosperity. Excellent reforms have taken place in every field in the last 10 years. Under the leadership of Prime Minister Modi, work has been done to bring India’s economy to a respectable position and make it the fifth largest economy in the world, he said.
