Wednesday, 17 August 2022 | PNS | Pauri
First recruitment rally to start on Kotdwar on Aug 19
The rally for the recruitment of Agniveers in the Indian army under the Agnipath scheme in Uttarakhand will start at the Gabbar Singh Camp in Kotdwar from August 19 and continue till August 31. The youth of seven districts of Garhwal region will be covered in Kotdwar recruitment rally in Pauri district.
Prior to this recruitment rally, the Agnipath scheme will be launched on August 17 in Kotdwar by chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami. Uttarakhand Vidhan Sabha speaker and Kotdwar MLA Ritu Khanduri has conducted meeting with local administration and police in Kotdwar regarding the arrangements for the recruitment rally. Khanduri said that Agnipath scheme will be launched in Uttarakhand at Kotdwar on Wednesday with chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami as the chief guest. She further said that the families of martyrs and ex-servicemen will also be felicitated in this function. Khanduri said that the administration and police have been instructed to make full arrangements in coordination with the departments concerned for sanitation, medical, transport, accommodation and other aspects during the recruitment rally so that the youth arriving here do not face any problems.
Meanwhile, Pauri district magistrate Vijay Kumar Jogdande along with colonel Manish Sharma held a meeting to review arrangements for the recruitment rally in Kotdwar. Officials informed in the meeting that 63,360 youth from seven districts of Garhwal had registered for the recruitment rally in Kotdwar. Out of these, 9,306 candidates are from Chamoli, 9,148 candidates from Dehradun, 6,812 from Haridwar, 16,330 from Pauri, 6,357 from Rudraprayag, 9,784 from Tehri and 5,623 from Uttarkashi.
The district magistrate instructed health and education department officials to produce the list of employees deployed for the recruitment camp. Jogdande asked education department staff to verify the certificates seriously and health department staff to work in two shifts to ensure 24 hours presence along with one ambulance. He also issued necessary directions to the officials of the Public Works Department, Transport department and others in the meeting.
