National Cadet Corps cadets are volunteering countrywide to help the civil administration. They are taking up tasks and are working shoulder to shoulder with civil defence and police personnel.
As the instructions to utilise the cadets for logistics and supply chain management duties have reached various district headquarters, the district administration is seeking their support, by requisitioning them from the NCC directorates.
Exercise NCC Yogdan commenced on April 1. Within 10 days approximately, 2,000 cadets have been employed countrywide in 12 states, with maximum in Tamil Nadu (306 cadets).
Volunteer NCC cadets, who are above 18 years and are from senior division (for boys cadets) and senior wing (for girls cadets) are only being employed for these duties. The cadets are voluntarily contributing in the cause, to fight against COVID-19. It’s being ensured that cadets are trained and properly briefed about the tasks, and also provided with safety equipment like masks, gloves. They are being employed under supervision of officers, PI staff and ANOs. They are not being employed in areas which are sealed as hotspots.
They are being employed for various duties like, traffic management, supply chain management, preparation and packaging of food items, distribution of food and essential items, queue management, social distancing ,manning control centres and CCTV control rooms.
As the lockdown continues, more states are in the process of requisitioning NCC cadets for various tasks. Headquarters DGNCC is monitoring the number of cadets volunteering for the cause. As per the last figures, 50,000 cadets have volunteered to contribute in Exercise NCC Yogdan.