Skip to main content

Group Discussion on National Cadet Corps for Airforce Phase2

National Cadet Corps

◆The NCC was formed in 1948 (on the recommendation of H. N. Kunzru Committee-1946), and has its roots to British era uniformed youth entities like University Corps or University Officer Training Corps.

◆Currently it has a strength of around 14 lakh cadets from Army, Navy and Air Force wings.
◆The NCC falls under the purview of the Ministry of Defence and is headed by a Director General of three-star military rank.
◆It enrolls cadets at high school and college level and also awards certificates on completion of various phases.
◆The NCC cadets receive basic military training at various levels and also have academic curriculum basics related to Armed forces and their functioning.
◆Various training camps, adventure activities and military training camps are an important aspect of NCC training.

◆Significance: NCC cadets have played an important role over the years in relief efforts during various emergency situations.
◆During the ongoing pandemic, over 60,000 NCC cadets have been deployed for voluntary relief work in coordination with district and state authorities across the country.
◆Recently, the Ministry of Defence has approved the proposal to expand the National Cadet Corps (NCC) in border and coastal districts.

●The expansion of the NCC was announced by the Prime Minister in his Independence Day speech.
●Restructuring of the NCC was one of the key recommendations of the Committee of Experts (CoE) headed by Lt Gen DB Shekatkar (Retd) in 2016.

●Expansion: A total of one lakh cadets from 173 border and coastal districts will be inducted into the NCC of which one-third of them will be girls.

●The expansion plan would be implemented in partnership with the States.

●Training and Administration: The Army will provide training and administrative support to the NCC units located in the border areas, Navy to the units in the coastal areas and Indian Air Force to the units close to Air Force stations.

●Benefit: It will provide trained manpower for disaster management and skill training to youth for making their career in the armed forces.

●It will increase youth’s interest in careers in Navy, Coast Guard and also Merchant shipping avenues.

●In the border area, the trained cadets can play supporting roles to the Armed forces in various forms.

For more article join on Telegram Search airforcestudy on Telegram App.

https://t.me/airforcestudy

Comments

Post a Comment

Thanks for showing interest. Join on Telegram Search airforcestudy on Telegram App.

Popular posts from this blog

Cyber Security Need of the hour: Group Discussion Topic for Airforce Phase2

Cyber security : Need of the Hour It is the time when whole world is suffering from covid crisis.  Currently government websites are being hacked, Banks also reported breach of confidential data from their servers,  the energy and nuclear power plants control systems are infected with virus Trojan and social media accounts of  celebrities being hacked. People are receiving text messages asking amount or money has been deducted from their bank accounts. The whole Nation is in a state of confusion.  It is clear that our country has become a victim of cyber attack and there has been 260% increase in cyber attacks since lockdown induced due to covid-19 pandemic. Due to increasing network and interconnectivity cyber attacks have become more common.   Cyber attackers uses different methods for attacks.  First , There are many financially motivated organised crime groups uses cyberspace as Warfare to hack business, Networks and demand mo...
Post a Comment
Read more

Bhuri Bai a tribal champion

Bhuri Bai a tribal champion  From extracting colour from plants and clay and painting on walls to stroking acrylic  colours on papers, Bhuri Bai is known as the first tribal woman artist to popularise the  art of Pithora painting. Bhuri Bai is an Indian Bhil artist.  Born in Pitol village, it's situated on the border of Madhya Pardesh and Gujrat but pitol  is a village of Jhabua district in Madhya Pradesh, Bhuri Bai belongs to the community of  Bhils, the largest tribal group  She has won many awards including the highest state honour accorded to artists by the  Madhya Pradesh government, the Shikhar Samman. She was awarded India's fourth  highest civilian award the Padma Shri in 2021.  Bhuri, belongs to one of the larg with many awards including Shikhar Samman, Madhya Pradesh’s highest state honour.   Nari Shakti Puraskar (Woman Power Award) is an annual award given by the Ministry of  Women and Child Development of  institutions that w...
Post a Comment
Read more

cellular organization

Cellular Organisation You know that in order to build a house, bricks are arranged in a certain pattern. Similarly, our body is made up of similar structures called   cells,   which assemble to form our body. Hence, cells are the structural units of our body. But who discovered and coined the term ‘cells’?  Let us explore. The discovery of cells was first made by Robert Hooke. While examining a section of a cork tree under the microscope, he observed small compartment-like structures and named them cell. With the discovery of advanced microscopes (like electron microscopes), the study of the structure of cells and various cell organelles was made possible. Microscope What is a microscope?  A microscope is an instrument used to see the objects that are not visible to the naked eye. It magnifies the object several hundred times and makes it clearly visible.   Parts of Microscope   The important parts of the microscope are:   Eye piece...
Post a Comment
Read more