Chandigarh, April 9 -- The Haryana council of ministers on Wednesday met under the leadership of chief minister Nayab Singh Saini and accorded the approval to amend the existing "Agniveer Policy-2024" and decided to increase horizontal reservation from the existing 10% to 20% for ex-Agniveers in government posts such as forest guard, mining guard and warder in prison department.

The Agniveers were recruited in the Army, Navy and Air Force under the Agnipath scheme started by the central government in mid 2022. The first batch of Agniveers is set to complete a four years mandatory term in July 2026. About 2,893 Agniveers were recruited from Haryana in 2023-24 and 2,227 in 2022-23.

In July 2024, after the lok sabha elections and ahead of ...