Treading on Fire | Prof. Vidya Mahambare writes for Financial Express.

The article highlights that by the age of 30, more than four out of five Indian men are married. However, male employment in the formal sector, characterised by a written job contract and social security benefits, saturates around the ages of 27-28 years. A vast majority of army candidates would be aware that their chances of getting a formal sector job when their four-year army contract expires are very low. Even for those who were in regular-wage employment, the average salary was around Rs 11,000 per month at age 27-28 years in 2019-20, compared to the monthly take-home starting salary of Rs 21,000 under the Agnipath scheme at a much younger age.