{"id":190845,"date":"2022-06-16T19:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=190845"},"modified":"2022-06-16T19:31:24","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T14:01:24","slug":"education-ministry-to-recognize-in-service-training-received-by-agniveers-as-credits-for-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/education-ministry-to-recognize-in-service-training-received-by-agniveers-as-credits-for-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Education Ministry to recognize in-service training received by Agniveers as credits for graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Government of India has announced several programmes to enhance the future career aspects of youth recruited under <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/cabinet-clears-agnipath-scheme\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agnipath Scheme.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>What are the programmes announced by the Government of India for youth recruited under Agnipath Scheme?<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>Three Year Bachelor Degree Programme<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Education has announced that it will launch a special 3-year skill-based bachelor&#8217;s degree programme for defence personnel under the Agnipath scheme.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Aim: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">enhance the future career prospects of Agniveers and equip them for various job roles in the civilian sector and recognise the skill training received by them during their defence tenure.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Nodal Agency:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Indira Gandhi National Open University(IGNOU) will be offering the degree programmes which will be recognised in both India and abroad for employment and education.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Key Features of the Programme: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the programme that will be designed and executed by IGNOU, 50% of the credits required for the graduate degree will come from skills received under the Agnipath scheme and the remaining 50% will come from a basket of courses that cover a wide variety of subjects like languages, Economics, History among others.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Those who apply for the degree programme will also have the provision of multiple exit points <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">under which they will get an undergraduate certificate on completion of the first year, an undergraduate diploma on completion of the first two years and a degree on completion of all the three years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Priority in Recruitment<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ministry of Home Affairs has announced that the personnel who serve in the country&#8217;s armed forces under the newly launched Agnipath scheme will be preferred during recruitment for the Central Armed Police Forces and Assam Rifles.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the articles:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 \u201c<\/b><b>Education Ministry to recognize in-service training received by Agniveers as credits for\u00a0 graduation<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> PIB <\/b><b>on<\/b><b> 15th June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>\u2013 \u201cAgniveers to get priority in CAPF recruitment\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> The Hindu <\/b><b>on<\/b><b> 16th June 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the News? Government of India has announced several programmes to enhance the future career aspects of youth recruited under Agnipath Scheme. What are the programmes announced by the Government of India for youth recruited under Agnipath Scheme? Three Year Bachelor Degree Programme The Ministry of Education has announced that it will launch a&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/education-ministry-to-recognize-in-service-training-received-by-agniveers-as-credits-for-graduation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Education Ministry to recognize in-service training received by Agniveers as credits for graduation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[3590,10498],"class_list":["post-190845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-pib","tag-the-hindu","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704700683},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}