Protests against the scheme were reported from Shikohabad in the Firozabad district on Thursday as well and disrupted the traffic on the Agra-Jaipur and Agra-Delhi national highways
A group of people protesting against the short-term recruitment of soldiers in the defence services under the Agnipath scheme damaged at least three Uttar Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation buses on Friday along the Agra-Lucknow Expressway.
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Police said that the windscreens of the buses were damaged before they rushed to the scene. “A handful of youths near village Sangai Kharedia in the Firozabad district damaged the buses using sticks and batons at 5 am,” said senior police superintendent Ashish Tiwari. He added that the situation is normal and traffic was plying as usual on the expressway. “Police are undertaking legal proceedings.”
Protests against the scheme were reported from Shikohabad in the Firozabad district on Thursday as well and disrupted the traffic on the Agra-Jaipur and Agra-Delhi national highways.
Fresh protesters were held on Friday across the country even as the government late on Thursday granted a two-year age relaxation under the scheme through a one-time waiver to assuage the anger over it after at least 180 people were injured in protests across seven states on Thursday.
Hemendra Chaturvedi is a senior journalist based at Agra. He covers eight districts of Agra and Aligarh division namely Agra, Mathura, Mainpuri, Firozabad, Aligarh, Etah, Kasganj and Hathras. He had been with HT since 1992 and has completed three decades of association with HT and has worked for Hindustan Times only all through his career of about 35 years. Having Masters in Chemistry, Hemendra is also a law graduate with diploma in Personnel Management and has utilised broad based academic qualifications in his indepth, accurate and high impact stories from this part of western Uttar Pradesh while being based in the city of Taj Mahal. In such long span of career with Hindustan Times, Hemendra Chaturvedi has led his team of reporters which was instrumental in bringing out supplements including Region Scan, Agra Live, HT City time to time and proven his leadership qualities and has made presence of HT felt in the region covered by him. In the process of time, Hemendra has attained expertise in a variety of beats, being sole reporter for HT and has covered Aligarh Muslim University, Taj Mahal centric tourism, religiously sensitive city of Mathura and had been witness to Agra Summit having attendance of top leaders of India and Pakistan.
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