Tour of Duty: explained

Recently, Army has proposed a voluntary tour of duty for civilians for three years.

talking about the proposal, Army is thinking about to take civilians in service for a short service as both officers and other posts like general duty soldiers. In the scheme, tax free income of three years with sum of 5-6 lacs for officers and 2-3 lacs for Other ranks would be given on the completion. There would be no severance packages, ex- serviceman status and other services which is given to a permanent army personnel. On martyrdom all status and services would be provided as a permanent personnel attains.

There a lot of young people who are full of the feeling of patriotism and nationalism but they do not want to serve in the army as a career in this. This scheme will also welcome young students of different colleges and different aspects of education. Mainly, the scheme will also encourage IITians in the service with different mind setup and idea.

Further it will reduce the financial burden over defence budget because the cost of three year service per personnel will be the fraction of the cost incurred in short service commission.This reduced burden will shift the focus towards modernisation of the defence system.

Youth would also be benefitted. In such a huge populated country there only some hundreds of people are appointed as an officer, the scheme will provide chances to more and more civilians.this will satisfy the feeling of patriotism of a great no of people. It is seen, corporate sectors always prefer to hire such individuals rather than fresh graduates.

After 10-15 years of starting of the scheme the density of well trained persons all around in the nation will increase which will help society to handle the problems easily with army tactics.