Dear Manu,
I am also interested and approach an agent who promised me a job offer under atlantic program. I have not paid the agent but wants to know your experience so far with this program. How is it going with you/?
I would say No. Unless you are really confident that you will get it and you know what you are doing. If there is a slightest doubt. Then stop right there. You'll never know how it ends. Take Canadian Attorney and get your immigration done better than cheaper.
Although, my case is pretty convoluted though but I want to explain any way:
First I approached consultancy (through online, I guess) for Express Entry and paid them Rs.50,000/- so I wrote IELTS and got low score than required for Express Entry: They said No. This is low score we cannot do it for this write again.
I thought it's really not efficient because I am not sure I will get IELTS better.
I figured out that there is a program SINP (Saskatchewan Immigration and Nominee Program) so again I approached different consultancy and paid then Rs.74,000/- so that they can submit my application to SINP.
To my bad luck, they did negligence on my case and submitted the document without compliance of Federal Government of Canada. It got rejected. Not once but they made it rejected twice.
Now Saskatchewan has completely removed the program and I got stuck
Then I thought I could try something like Atlantic Immigration Pilot Program and that guy said I need to pay Rs.20,000 first so I paid them and they submitted my resumes to only fifty clients and I did not even got any response from any Canadian employers.
At the end they said that "We are closing your case because we said that we will only submit to only fifty Canadian companies."
So, I wasted lot of money in cheap consultancies and ended up broke. I think it's better to take Canadian Attorney because they charge it more but Attorneys take complete responsibility even if it gets rejected they will still try to do best. But on the other hand consultancies in India... you name it friend.
Hope it helps,
Manu