{"id":45481,"date":"2022-06-16T21:51:43","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T12:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/16\/young-indians-protest-against-loss-of-army-job-security"},"modified":"2022-06-16T21:51:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T12:51:43","slug":"trains-and-tyres-burn-as-indians-protest-against-loss-of-army-job-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45481","title":{"rendered":"Trains and tyres burn as Indians protest against loss of army job security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rallies spread across states over news of four-year contract to replace job-for-life scheme<\/p>\n<p>Young people in India have set trains and tyres alight and vandalised buses in angry protests against a new army recruitment scheme that calls time on a guaranteed job for life.<\/p>\n<p>The protests took place in Rajasthan, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh after the announcement on Tuesday of the <em>Agnipath<\/em> (\u201cpath of fire\u201d) scheme, which aims to recruit people aged between 17 and 21 on four-year contracts.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/16\/young-indians-protest-against-loss-of-army-job-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rallies spread across states over news of four-year contract to replace job-for-life schemeYoung people in India have set trains and tyres alight and vandalised buses in angry protests against a new army recruitment scheme that calls time on a guarante&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":364,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,80,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-protest","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/364"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45482,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45481\/revisions\/45482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}