At your service: 1st batch of Agniveers excited, prepared as training course ends next week

The Indian Navy’s sprawling lakeside training facility, INS Chilka, is brimming with verve and cheer as the country’s first Agniveers — selected under the new Agnipath model for short-term recruitment of soldiers in the three services — are on the threshold of a challenging military career, and prepare to finish their training at the verdant 1,540-acre campus after four gruelling months, in a watershed moment for the country’s armed forces