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NEW DELHI: The Indian Army has started a large recruitment thrust for Agniveer roles this year, offering implicit 25,000 positions crossed the country. The exertion process is present unfastened pursuing the merchandise of an authoritative notification for 2026-27.
The past day to use is April 1.When the Agnipath strategy was launched connected June 14, 2022 — recruitment was for a play of 4 years — a full of 46,000 vacancies were opened for recruitment that twelvemonth to the Army, Navy and Indian Air Force. Out of this, 40,000 vacancies were for the Army and the remainder for the Navy and the IAF. With the archetypal batch completing their four-year word by precocious 2026, and much retirements connected the way, the Army is accelerating hiring to stabilise manpower.
In a bid to trim a shortfall of astir 1.8 lakh soldiers, the Army is looking to summation vacancies for recruitment of Agniveers to implicit 1 lakh each year, from the existing 46,000.For 2026 recruitment, selected candidates volition person a specially structured monthly wage starting astatine Rs 30,000 successful the archetypal month. This magnitude volition summation by Rs 5,000 each consequent year, reaching Rs 40,000 by the 4th year. After contributing 30% to the Agniveer Corpus Fund, the in-hand wage volition scope from Rs 21,000 successful the archetypal twelvemonth to Rs 28,000 successful the 4th year.
The govt volition lucifer this publication annually.The 25,000 posts are crossed respective categories specified arsenic wide work (GD), technical, clerk/storekeeper technical, tradesman, worker pharma, worker method nursing adjunct and women mlitary police. The registration process that started connected Feb 13 volition proceed till April 1. The enactment process volition beryllium carried retired successful 3 phases— a computer-based trial (CBT), a recruitment rally, and finally, papers verification.
