The Agneepath Scheme, also spelled Agnipath Scheme, is a tour of duty style scheme approved by the Government of India on June 14, 2022, for recruitment of soldiers below the rank of commissioned officers into the three services of the armed forces. The scheme is for both male and female aspirants of age group 17.5 to 21 years, and the upper age limit was raised to 23 for recruitment in the year 2022. The scheme allows patriotic and motivated youth to serve in the Armed Forces for a period of four years, and the recruits will be known as Agniveers. The scheme is designed to enable a youthful profile of the Armed Forces and provide an opportunity to the youth who may be keen to don the uniform by attracting young talent from the society who are more in tune with contemporary technological trends and plough back skilled, disciplined, and motivated manpower into the society. The Agniveers will be imparted with various military skills and experience, discipline, physical fitness, leadership qualities, courage, and patriotism during their four-year stint. The scheme is a recruitment process launched by the central government wherein selected candidates will be enrolled as Agniveers for a four-year period in the Indian Armed Forces. The recruitment standards will remain the same, and recruitment will be done twice a year through rallies. The scheme is a topic of news coverage and is significant in terms of current affairs.