NCC - Do You Have It In You?

Be part of NCC (National Cadet Corps), India’s first youth organization, to make your future bold and successful.

Moto:

“UNITY AND DISCPLINE”

 

            National Cadets Corps, the first youth organization of India was formed after the NCC act passed by the Parliament of India in 1948. Every last Sunday of November is considered as NCC day. There are four divisions, JD (Junior Division), JW (Junior Wing), SD (Senior Division) and SW (Senior Wing) of NCC. Cadets up to class tenth are grouped as JD, for boys and JW, for girls. Students of twelfth and degree classes are part of SD and SW. 

             There are three wings of NCC - Army, Air Force and Naval. NCC girls division was established in the year 1949, Air wing in 1950 and Naval Wing in 1952.

             NCC is a huge organization it is distributed as:

Ø  NCC Director General, it is situated at Delhi commanded by Lt General Prakash.S.Choudary (AVSM, VSM); he is the supreme commander of NCC.

 

Ø  Directorate, there are 17 directorate of NCC; Kerala & Lakshadweep dir is one of them. It is commanded by Brigadier, he is the supreme commander of NCC at state level.

 

Ø  Group Head Quarters, there are five groups in Kerala & Lakshadweep dir – Kollam, Thiruvanathapuram, Kottayam, Ernakulum and Kozhikode. Colonel is the officer in chief of Groups.

 

Ø  Battalion, there are seven battalion in each group (e.g. 1Kerala Bn, 2Kerala Bn, 3Kerala Bn, 4Kerala Bn, 1Kerala Air, 1Kerala Naval and 1Kerala Girls Bn). Lt Colonel is the commander in chief.

 

Ø  Company & Troops, each battalion have five companies (College) and thirteen troops (Schools). A company’s strength is 160 and of a troop are 100 cadets. They are commanded by ANO (Associate Ncc Officer), AO (Administration Officer), TO (Training Officer). .

 

National Cadet Corps aims at making each and every cadet a perfect citizen. It is a youth organization which provides self growth to the cadets as well as provides service to the society. NCC provides the cadets a sense of nationalism and secular outlook so that it contributes towards the inculcation of a sprit of national integration among the cadets. It organizes many types of camps for the cadet’s training. In centrally organized camps, cadets from different states are brought together and made to stay and work together with a view to provide the sprit of unity in diversity. Besides giving thrill and excitement each cadets are able to know the survived culture of each state through the folk dances, group songs, orchestra and the national integration awareness presentation of each state. This makes each cadet to know the diversity of Indian culture and the long heritage of India.

 International camps like YEP (Youth Exchange Programs) makes the selected groups of cadets to know about other countries by visiting those places.

 NCC provides an opportunity for the cadets to know about an Army personal’s life style and discipline. Each camps of NCC are conducted as similar to an army training camp. Discipline is a must for each cadet and the cadets should follow the camp rules and instructions of their seniors and officers. In common camps the Cadets are thought about the discipline and cleanness to be maintained by them. Here each cadet learns to share and struggle.

 

The daily drill and games makes a cadet fit to face any physical challenge. The class conducted allows the cadets know about the various weapons, signal, ranks, etc used by the armed forces of India. These classes make a cadet proud of their nation and create respect for his country and flag in his or her mind. These classes also prepare the cadets to attend the certificate exams conducted by NCC.

 

NCC develops the following in you:

ü  Comradeship

ü  Courage and character

ü  Discipline

ü  Co-operative mind

ü  Honesty

ü  Service mind

ü  Secular outlook

ü  Sprit of adventure

ü  Responsible

Types of Camps offered by NCC to Cadets:

Centrally Organized Camps (15 to 20 days)

• Youth Exchange Program (YEP)
• Republic Day Camp
• Thal - Sainik Camp
• Nau – Sainik Camp
• Vayu – Sainik Camp
• National Integration Camp (NIC)
• National Trucking, Mountaineering
• Parachute training (Para – sealing/ jumping)
• Rafting
• Light weight aircraft training
• Army Attachment Camps (only for boys/SD)

 Common Camps (10 to 12 days)

• Combined All Wing Annual Training Camp (CAWATC)
• Combined Annual Training Camp (CATC)
• Annual Training Camp (ATC) etc…

 

Other than camps cadets are facilitated to write certificate exams of NCC like ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’. ‘C’ certificate is the highest certificate that a cadet can hold. Recently the India govt. has passed the bill to provide wattage and preference to the NCC certificate holders for all types of uniform works i.e. Defense, Police, Forest guard, Fire Force etc. NCC certificates are also worthy of grace marks for PSC (Public Service Commission) Examinations.

 Cadets who have attended any of the above said camps are worthy to get grace marks for their University or Board exams.  The grace marks to the NCC cadets of University of Kerala, at graduate level examination are detailed as below

YEP (Youth Exchange program)                                : 7%

Representing RDC/ Parade                                         : 5%

TSC/ Nau-Sainik/Vayu-Sainik camp, Independence

Day Camp, Sports and games at Delhi                       : 4%

Certificate Holders:

            ‘B’ Certificate                                                 : 2%

            ‘C’ Certificate                                                 : 3%

Centrally Organized Camps

(NIC, Army Attachment, National Trucking…)        : 1%

ATC, CAWATC, CATC…                                        : 1%

 

Rules

1. Grace marks shall be awarded only for graduate course of the University.
2. The cadet should attend 70% of the NCC activities of the year.
3. Grace Mark shall be awarded initially to the candidate on the basis of his/her performance in the respective academic year only.
4. An academic year is 1^st June to 31^st May.
5. The student shall claim the grace mark within one year after the end of an academic year. (I.e. claim for 2005-06 should be made before 2007).
6. The said grace marks are subject to a maximum of 10%.
7.  Moderation shall be effected after the grace mark has been added to the original marks of a student.
8. If the marks of a candidate are below the required minimum for a pass in internal/ viva/ practical, grace marks can also be distributed to these items to get a pass.
9. Grace marks shall be given for all papers/ parts/ subjects of a course.
10. Application with all relevant documents and attested copies of the Certificate for grace marks shall be submitted through the principal/ NCC Coordinator and forwarded to the Controller of Examination. Proper entry shall be made in the originals for the certificates of proficiency by the office of verifying authority.
11. The grace mark shall be distributed to the best advantage of the candidate.

 

It could be well noticed that NCC has played a vital role in encouraging youth to join Indian Armed Forces. For Army recruitments NCC cadets have more preference, especially the certificate holders. The ‘C’ certificate holders are remitted form the written examination of recruitment.  

 NCC has been serving the nation for the past 60 years. And it shall serve the nation in future too. NCC has made each and every cadet to think in a different way, and has laid foundation in hearts and minds of young men and women that- its there duty to change the society and play a purposeful role in its transmission.  Now it is the responsibility of the next generation to join NCC and serve nation.

 Do you have it in you- to change?