Former Agniveers will get 20% reservation in recruitment to vacant “Group C” posts in the Delhi government, Lieutenant Governor Taranjit Singh Sandhu said on Thursday.
The posts include police constables, fire personnel, jail wardens, forest guards and wildlife guards. Recruitment under the provision will be open to all eligible former Agniveers.
Agniveers are recruited into the armed forces under the Agnipath short-term recruitment scheme. Under the scheme, citizens aged between 17-and-a-half and 21 years are eligible to apply for a four-year term in the military with a provision that 25% of them will be retained for 15 more years.
On Thursday, Sandhu said that a June 30 deadline has been set for departments to complete processes and amend recruitment rules.
The departments have been empowered to “deploy and utilise the specialised capabilities” of the former Agniveers in line with their operational requirements, the lieutenant governor added.
In March, the Union home ministry notified that the Delhi Police would reserve 20% of the constable (executive) posts for former Agniveers, with exemptions from the physical efficiency test and a three-year relaxation in the upper age limit. The Delhi Police reports to the Union government.
Neighbouring Haryana had also, in April 2025, announced the doubling of reservations for former Agniveers in police recruitment to 20%.
In July 2024, eight other Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled states – Gujarat, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Rajasthan and Arunachal Pradesh – announced reservations and preferential hiring for Agniveers in government jobs, the police and other security forces.
The introduction of the Agnipath scheme in 2022 had triggered protests in several states as aspirants demanded permanent recruitment with pension benefits.
Agniveers are not entitled to pension and emoluments on the completion of the four years of service and are instead offered a lump-sum package.
Written by Nachiket Deuskar. Edited by Tanya Shrivastava.
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