NCC the biggest youth organization in uniform in our country

The youths of our country who are in various educational institutions in 
secondary, higher secondary and under graduate level and join  the biggest
youth organization, the National Cadet Corps(NCC). They have Boys, Girls , Army, Navy 
and Air wings. Their uniform are different, Army wing cadets put on ‘Khaki’, 
Navy and Air Wings their colour are white and sky respectively. 


The NCC Act was adopted in 1948 in our country, prior to that  there was 
Officers Training Unit (OTU) in which Subhas Chandra Bose was also a cadet.

1. To Develop Character, Comradeship, Discipline, Leadership, Secular Outlook, Spirit of Adventure, and Ideals of Selfless Service amongst the Youth of the Country. 2. To Create a Human Resource of Organized, Trained and Motivated Youth, To Provide Leadership in all Walks of life and be Always Available for the Service of the Nation. 3. To Provide a Suitable Environment to Motivate the Youth to Take Up a Career in the Armed Forces.

Organisation

Lieuant General (Lt Gen)

Director General (DG) NCC Office

Ministry of Defence (MOD) , Government of India (GOI),

RK Puram, New Delhi 110066

Web site http://nccindia.nic.in/

Sainik Samachar

Cadet Journal

Officers Training Academy (OTA) NCC,

Kamtee, Maharastra

Major General (Maj Gen)

Additional Diretor General (ADG)

NCC Directorate West Bengal and Sikkim

MOD,GOI, P67 Block ‘D’ New Alipore, Kolkata 700053

Printed books on the training of NCC to be purchased may be through library, Institute

should subscribe fortnightly journal in Bengali and  English, the annual subscription is Rs one hundred onl,

Business Manager, Sainik Samachar, GOI, MOD, Hutment, Church Road, New Delhi 110001, DD to be payable ;Editor in Chief, Sainik Samachar.

In our state NCC is under the Civil Defence Department, GOWB, Writers Building

The Institute is under a NCC Battalion who arrange for the enrolment, training and conduct the examinations, i.e. NCC certificates’ B’ & ‘C’.

a)      Commanding Officer (CO)

b)      Administrative Officer

c)      Subedar Major (SM)

Senior Division

Boys & Girls

Wings

Army, Navy & Air

Aim

 http://nccindia.nic.in/Aim.htm

It was started in 2011 a volunteer of the Young Explorers’ Institute for Social Service took imitative to impart training to the students of Rabindra Bharati University of Kolkata, The students were motivated to undergone NCC training, NCC authority was approached, visit of Fort William, State Bank Museum  was made for the students. Programmes were organised at the university campus on the ‘Role of Netaji Subash Chandra Bose, Indian National Army for India’s freedom movement’ & the career in Indian Army. A wall climbing training was organised at the wall of West Bengal Mountain Adventure  Sports  & Trekkers Foundation at Yuva Bharati Kriangan, Kolkata.

An open unit of NCC, Army Wing, Senior Division was started in 2012 under 12^th Bengal Battaion NCC of Kolkata, The weekly training are organised at the university campus under the NCC Permanent staff, the cadets attained NCC annual training camp and appeared the proficiency  examination and successful cadets have been presented

Actions by the Institute

a)      Application in prescribed form NCC web site

b)       NCC Company strength max 100, a room with furniture for safe holding  of Government stores including uniform

c)      Training area if at the campus

d)      Cadets appointments

i)                    Under Officer

ii)                  Company Sergent Major

iii)                Company Quarter Master

The details of enlistment in the National Cadet Corps (NCC) during last five 
years is given below year wise:-
            
Enrolled cadet strength Fresh enrolment during the year 
Percentage of enlistment 

2004-05 1209447 529232 43.76 
2005-06 1208418 528175 43.71 
2006-07 1225820 535423 43.68 
2007-08 1224110 612065 50.00 
2008-09 1236792 618396 50.00 
Government is working on a proposal to chalk out the modalities to increase the 
sanctioned NCC cadet strength from 13 lakh to 15 lakh cadets over a period of 
five years. ( Ref *1 )

The DG NCC Lt Gen PS Bhalla, said  stated
that the strength of NCC cadets from present 13.4 lakh would be increased to 15
lakh in next five years. To support the increase and expansion, six Group
Headquarters and 60 additional NCC Units would be raised, he said.  50 per cent of the Units will be raised in insurgency affected areas, J&K, including in Maoist-affected regions of
Jharkhand and Chattisgarh. He was recently on his two-day visit to the NCC
Directorate of West Bengal and Sikkim, at Kolkata.

NCC  have different raining modules such as, drill, weapon, field craft, map 
reading, first aid e.t.c.The weekly training, annual camp, special camps like, 
attachment to the  with regular units of the armed forces, give the cadets
the understand real life of a armed forces personnel. The advance leadership 
training and republic day camp give them to groom in leadership and national 
integration. 

In keeping with the changes in training philosophy, necessitated by the academic
pressures that a cadet faces, 95 NCC academies are proposed to be raised
nationwide, one each for the 95 Group Headquarters spread across the country,
DG NCC, 
           
 “These NCC academies will have full-fledged infrastructure for boarding and lodging of
cadets, parade ground, information technology laboratory, firing range, auditorium
and language labs, to begin with,” he said.  Explaining the rationale behind the project,
DG NCC said the NCC academies would help lower the period of training camps and
would also bring cadets from professional college such as the IIMs, IITs and
NITs, ensuring that at all levels of leadership, the values of nationalism,
patriotism and secularism are imbibed

The cadets are sent regular adventure training courses
conducted by various mountaineering institutes in India. NCC organized 1st Mountaineering 
expedition in 1970 to Panchachuli, Uttrakhand Himalayas, since then various 
expeditions have been organiised. First time NCC flag was on the top of Lion  
peak  (20100 fts) in June 1972, in Himachal Pradesh. A group of climbers of 
Kolkata had climbed two peaks during these expedition. The expedition was
mainly NCC Cadets and sponsored by Directorate General NCC. (Ref *2)

There is a special match competition for NCC cadets in rifle shooting event in 
National Shooting competition. NCC cadets are taking regularly various 
international, national and regional events including last 16th commonwealth 
games. 


The proficiency test is carried out regularly. The NCC ‘C’ certificate holder
gets the chance to appear before the service selection board for joining the special 
entry in Armed forces as Commissioned Officer.

The cadets are encouraged to take part in social services which is now part of 
their regular activities. 


Ref (*1 ) PIB Press release of 14 Feb 2010. (*2)   
a) The Sainik Samachar June 1972,
b) Publication of NCC Directorate WB, Sikkim & Andaman of 1972.
c) A Bengali book titled ‘Lahur Singher Sandhane’ (In search of lion, an
account of this expedition) by Sisir Ghosh, published by ‘Saibya Pustakalya’ of
Kolkata, 
d)  http://nccindia.nic.in/