Few vacancies, delayed appointments: Why ex-servicemen fail to find jobs

The data shows that absorbing the first batch of 34,500 retired Agniveers in 2026 will require additional vacancies

In the wake of protests against the Agnipath scheme by aspiri­ng soldiers, industrialists took to Twitter to announce that they were willing to hire ex-servi­cemen in their organisations.

The government is also a big employer of ex-servicemen. However, veterans complain that jobs reserved for them are too few.

Data shows that despite the scarcity, most of the jobs that are reserved for ex-servicemen are not given to them. According to the rules of reservation, there should be 413,688 positions available for ex-servicemen in Groups A, B, C and D jobs.

However, less than a quarter (80,135 of 413,688) of these jobs in banks,