The biannual conference of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) at the National level to monitor and co-ordinate the activities of NCC was inaugurated by Dr MM Pallam Raju, the Minister of State for Defence at the NCC, Headquarters.
The conference scheduled over two days was being attended by the Heads of NCC of all States. This forum is an ideal platform to formulate plans and implementation procedures of this premier youth organisation.
The RRM while praising the activities by the NCC, emphasised on the need to reach out to maximum students to spread the motto of the NCC — ‘Unity and Discipline.’
He asked the NCC State Heads to carry out close liaison with respective State governments so that initiatives pertaining to NCC are resolved smoothly.
The highlight of the conference was the release of ‘NCC-Revised Training Philosophy’ document by the Raksha Rajya Mantri.
later, the in-house discussion session took up the challenges and moot issues concerning training and logistics requisites of the young cadets.
lt Gen PS Bhalla, AVSM the DGNCC, emphasised the implementation of the refined NCC Training Philosophy to make it contemporary, more realistic and purposeful in keeping with the aspirations of the present-day youth.
He brought out that the NCC training academies at the state level, is going to provide appropriate training and administrative infrastructure for the cadets.
The focus on personality development programmes in now more structured and professional manner will be immensely beneficial to the NCC cadets and enable them to groom themselves as effective leaders in various fields and professions.