Planning to recruit more Agniveers from Ladakh and Northeast, says Indian Navy chief

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Indian Navy chief Admiral R Hari Kumar on Wednesday said the Indian Navy wants to expand the representation of different districts in the Agniveer scheme to 100 percent...

He said the Indian Navy has started the outreach mission with the Agniveer scheme which currently has representation from around 656 districts of the country in the Navy...

We found that there is very little representation from Ladakh and the northeast region in the Navy..

The first batch of Navy Agniveers passed out from INS Chilka, Navys premier training establishment for sailors' ab-initio training upon induction on March, 28 this year..

In line with their transformation to Sea Warriors, the Agniveers underwent 16 weeks of ab-initio training at INS Chilka, the premier sailors' training establishment of the Indian Navy...

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