National Cadets Corps (NCC) requires civil manpower for its NCC camps in Dumka, Gumla and Koderma. Major General Rajpal Singh, the Additional Director General (ADG) of Bihar and Jharkhand NCC Directorate, on Thursday said that they would be forced to withdraw 70 per cent of their personnel from these camps by June end if the State Government does not provide them the civilian clerical staff.
The military force is facing 30 to 40 per cent civil staff crunch in its third NCC battalion (BN) at Ranchi as well but as of now staff deployed in other three districts is a prime matter of concern.
“We requested Governor Syed Ahmed and Chief Secretary RS Sharma on Wednesday to provide us the required third grade civilian people who would assist us in the clerical jobs. During past one and half years the central government has allotted sufficient Army men at these camps but because of non availability of civilian staff NCC cadet recruitment has not been done,” said Major General Rajpal Singh at a Press conference here. Phase one construction of the NCC girl’s camp construction in Dumka began in 2011 while the phase two construction of two NCC battalions and one group headquarter in Gumla and Koderma commenced in 2012.
Adding further, Major General Singh said, “The three new camp districts are Maoist affected areas. Youths who are lured to join naxalism there can be motivated to join NCC and serve the nation in a better way.”
Among the five groups of NCC Bihar and Jharkhand combined directorate, Jharkhand has only one group which is actively working at Ranchi. Presently, there are around 30,000 cadets working under 10 battalions in Jharkhand.
“We have also urged the Government to reserve seats for NCC cadets in technical education like the one done by the central government,” the Major General said.
Notably, General officer commanding-in-chief (GOC) of South Western command lieutenant General Gyan Bhushan,who was here recently, had instructed the Army officials to aim Jharkhand as a separate NCC directorate since the children here owe a passion towards NCC.
last year, the Army Directorate had given a proposal to the state government for establishing a Jharkhand NCC Academy in around three to five acres land as now the Ranchi zone itself is headed by a Brigadier rank officer instead of a Colonel to initiate the NCC work process in the state and has more land than what is available in Bihar for the purpose. Major General Rajpal conceded that they had given proposal for two such training academies in Patna and Muzaffarpur to the Bihar government as well.
From this session onwards NCC via a gazette notification has given the liberty to Central Board of Secondary Schools to incorporate NCC as an elective subject in classes 9 to 10 and 11 to 12. NCC has also planned to extend the senior cadet training from two to three years.
The prestigious national honour corps aims to strengthen its national population of 15 lakhs cadets. So, NCC would soon launch an Annual Advanced leadership Camp wherein cadets would be trained for the three military forces comprising Navy, Army and Air Force. “This will help the cadets in tackling the service selection board exams of any of these defence forces,” Major General Singh said.