# Cabinet approves the Agnipath military recruitment scheme

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 14 June 2022 the Union Cabinet approved Agnipath, a short-service recruitment scheme for Agniveers with a four-year tenure and a 25 percent later retention.

## Context

The Defence Ministry implements. Protests and train vandalism followed, with other authors. [Modi](/people/narendra-modi) chairs the Cabinet. He did not sit as every recruiting officer.

Later batch intakes are neighbouring later administrative events.

The Prime Minister of India is head of the Union Council of Ministers. Parliament writes statutes; the President assents; states and Union ministries implement; the Supreme Court can strike a scheme down. A prime minister can announce demonetisation, drive a bill, and take an oath. He does not write a UNFCCC depositary record, an ISRO telemetry file, or a Supreme Court judgment by himself.

## Evidence and sources

Press Information Bureau of India carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [labour-market tightness](/drivers/labour-market-tightness) and political polarisation: a completed short-service redesign is a dated youth-employment and service-condition shock.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 14 June 2022 Cabinet approval of Agnipath with four-year terms and 25 percent retention.

Not established: a unique later combat-effectiveness coefficient, or that every protester spoke for every veteran.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Defence Ministry implements. Services recruit.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Cabinet approves the Agnipath military recruitment scheme, not a later speech about Cabinet approves the Agnipath military recruitment scheme.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Cabinet approves the Agnipath military recruitment scheme on 2022-06-14 is not a licence to treat every later Press Information Bureau of India communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Cabinet approves the Agnipath military recruitment scheme into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He chairs the Cabinet that approved the scheme. The Defence Ministry implements. Services recruit. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, the President, the Reserve Bank, state governments, the Election Commission, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. A Supreme Court striking-down is not a criminal conviction. A scheme notification is not a unique rupee coefficient. A UN pledge is not a delivered emissions path.

## People

- Narendra Modi: https://factrail.ai/people/narendra-modi

## Drivers

- Labour-Market Tightness: https://factrail.ai/drivers/labour-market-tightness
- Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-unveils-new-military-recruitment-plan-sparking-protests-2022-06-16/
- https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1833856

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/in-agnipath-2022