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.
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Organisation
Lieuant General (Lt Gen)
Director General (DG) NCC Office
Ministry of Defence (MOD) , Government of India (GOI),
RK Puram, New Delhi 110066
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
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 12th
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/
