The award ceremony of the Passing-out-Course of the 132 Regular and Parallel Courses was held at Khetarpal Auditorium, Indian Military Academy (IMA) in Dehradun on Tuesday. IMA Commandant, lt Gen Manvender Singh gave away the awards to outstanding Gentlemen Cadets (GCs) who excelled in various fields during their pre-commission training at the Academy.
The GCs during their course of training at IMA were adjudged in various fields and were awarded according to their performances. The awards were conferred in recognition of their work and dedication to achieve excellence and perfection. The GCs were adjudged in individual as well as group activities, which was an essential component of military training. It was essential for building esprit-de-corps and leadership qualities required during both war and peace.
After giving away prizes to GCs and accreditation certificates to Foreign Gentlemen Cadets (FGCs), IMA Commandant lt Gen Manvender Singh congratulated them for successfully completing their training at IMA. He termed the training module as a difficult, arduous, challenging, taxing and precarious, fraught with risks and dangers. He also urged those from the passed out course to remain update throughout their lives to become good officers.
“Every possible step was introduced by the IMA administration to impart best training to you and to transform each one of you to be best army officers of the Indian Army,” he said, adding that conduct, character, competence and
commitment should be your part of life.
He stressed that training was designed in order to create pressure on GCs during training so that they can come out easily from the adverse conditions during war time.
lt Gen Singh said that special focus was laid to improve office like qualities, ethics, communication skills and to inculcate the habit of participating in the sports and adventure activities.
He also advised them to get acquainted with the locals while participating in counter-insurgency operations in the affected areas and refrain from human rights violation. Diploma certificates in defence studies were also awarded to FGCs by Uttarakhand Technical University. later, lina Mathews, wife of Deputy Commandant and Chief Instructor Maj Gen Bobby Mathews released the IMA Journal Spring Term 2013.