Agnipath protests: Chief ministers of UP, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh have also come out in support, saying \u2018Agniveers\u2019 will be given priority for state government jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Amid violent protests in several states over the ‘Agnipath<\/a>‘ armed forces recruitment scheme, home minister\u00a0Amit Shah<\/a>\u00a0on Friday flagged the government’s decision to increase (for 2022 only) the upper age limit of potential recruits and praised its ‘sensitivity’ in the matter. Shah said\u00a0prime minister Narendra Modi<\/a>\u00a0‘cares for youth’ and a large number of young men and women would benefit from relaxed age limits and from the ‘Agnipath’ scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Agnipath protests: Chief ministers of UP, Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh have also come out in support, saying \u2018Agniveers\u2019 will be given priority for state government jobs. Amid violent protests in several states over the ‘Agnipath‘ armed forces recruitment scheme, home minister\u00a0Amit Shah\u00a0on Friday flagged the government’s decision to increase (for 2022 only) the upper age […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13336,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,683],"tags":[74,132],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanjhatv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13334"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanjhatv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanjhatv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanjhatv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanjhatv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sanjhatv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13337,"href":"http:\/\/sanjhatv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13334\/revisions\/13337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanjhatv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sanjhatv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanjhatv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sanjhatv.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}