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(Representational Image) (Representational Image)Major General Jagatbir Singh, Director General, Directorate General Resettlement (DGR), Department of Ex-Servicemen Welfare, on Saturday said that in the last two years 50,000 ex-servicemen had been provided with new jobs through DGR, achieving 83 per cent placement compared to the 60,000 defence personnel who retire every year. Speaking at the conclave titled ‘HR in the Digital Age’, Major General Singh explained that the average age of people exiting the armed forces is 42 years. These are state government initiatives,” the official said adding that he was looking towards Gujarat’s thriving private sector to provide jobs to ex-servicemen. When asked if there were a database with the the details of ex-servicemen requiring jobs across the country, Major General Singh said that no such database existed, calling it the biggest challenge. “Bulk of the people who are ex-servicemen (70 per cent) belong to the northern states of J&K, Punjab, Haryana, Uttarkhand, Himachal, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh,” Major General Singh said..