Government announces concessions to scheme as police arrest at least 260 people and hundreds of train services cancelled due to unrest
Protesters in India’s eastern state of Bihar have damaged public property and ransacked offices in a railway station, expressing outrage at a new military recruitment plan and demanding the government reverse course.
Analysts said the new scheme would also help cut burgeoning pension costs, but opponents believe it would limit opportunities for permanent jobs in the defence forces, with implications for salaries, pensions and other benefits.One person was killed this week and more than a dozen have been injured in a series of protests in some regions of the country against the new scheme.
In a bid to contain the outrage, the federal government on Saturday announced concessions for those who will serve under the scheme.The federal home ministry announced it would reserve 10% of vacancies in the paramilitary forces and Assam Rifles, a unit in the Indian army, for those who have passed out of the army after the four-year period mandated in the scheme.
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