TIL Desk Lucknow/ The 21-day long Army Recruitment Rally under Agnipath Scheme commenced at Anand Engineering College, Keetham Agra on 20 Sep 2022. The rally covers 12 districts under Army Recruiting Office, Agra, namely Agra, Mathura, Aligarh, Etah, Firozabad, Mainpuri, Etawah, Jalaun, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Hathras and Kasganj.
The Agra Recruitment rally commenced with a very overwhelming and enthusiastic response from the youth for various general duty and technical trades. The registration figures for Agra rally which closed at 1,75,219 is a testimony to the enthusiasm and keenness reflected by the youth towards the Agnipath Scheme. Long queues of the aspirants were seen outside the rally venue astride the Agra – Mathura highway on the first day. A total of 5170 candidates belonging to the districts of Kasganj and Lalitpur took part in the recruitment rally on the first day. 7129 candidates had registered to appear on the first day.
The recruitment rally received overwhelming support from Civil Administration Agra under Sh PN Singh, District Magistrate, Shri Prabhakar Singh, SSP Agra and from Brig Rajneesh Mohan, Station Commander, Agra Cantt. The civil administration ensured necessary administrative arrangements for the candidates arriving for the rally to include provision of mobile toilets, drinking water and provision of buses for ferrying candidates to and fro. Additional measures for security and crowd control have been taken.
A fair and transparent screening process for selection of eligible candidates is underway at the rally site. Before the commencement of the rally, the candidates were adequately cautioned to refrain from adopting unfair means, procuring fake documents, avoid being misguided by touts and fudging/ tampering with the admit cards, violating which will attract cancellation of candidature would be cancelled and debarring from future participation. An extensive and comprehensive outreach program on the Agnipath Scheme covering eligibility and other criteria was undertaken by the Army Recruitment Office, Agra prior to the commencement of the rally.
