{"id":45487,"date":"2022-06-17T13:54:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T04:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jun\/17\/trains-and-tyres-set-alight-as-young-indians-protest-army-recruitment-changes-video"},"modified":"2022-06-17T13:54:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T04:54:39","slug":"trains-and-tyres-set-alight-as-young-indians-protest-against-army-recruitment-changes-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=45487","title":{"rendered":"Trains and tyres set alight as young Indians protest against army recruitment changes \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Young people in&nbsp;India&nbsp;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. The protests took place in Rajasthan, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh after a plan to recruit people aged between 17 and 21 on four-year contracts was announced. The announcement came as a shock to young rural people who have become accustomed to the idea of joining the army to achieve job security, a stable income and social status. The protests have been fuelled further by soaring unemployment and inflation<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/16\/young-indians-protest-against-loss-of-army-job-security\">Trains and tyres burn as Indians protest against loss of army job security<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/video\/2022\/jun\/17\/trains-and-tyres-set-alight-as-young-indians-protest-army-recruitment-changes-video\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young people in&nbsp;India&nbsp;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. The protests took place in Rajasthan, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh af&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-protest"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45487","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45488,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45487\/revisions\/45488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}