National Cadet Corps (NCC)

NCC is the Indian Armed Forces’ youth wing, which is open for college and school students to join voluntarily. It is a Tri-Services Organisation, encompassing the Army, the Air and the Navy Wing.

India’s soldier youth foundation recruits cadets from schools, colleges and universities to provide primary military training. However, no cadets and officers are accountable for actively participating in military services after their course.

This article will discuss the National Cadet Corps – its origin, motto, fundamental values, training and activities in the context of the IAS Exam.

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Origin of National Cadet Corps

• After the 1948 Kashmir War, India learned that independence must have robust Armed Force protection. At this point, the 1946 Cadet Corps Scheme by Kunzuru Committee was the expeditious manifestation of developing a youth Armed Force.
• It was presented in front of India’s Constituent Assembly on 13th March 1948. The legislature members felt vivacious with its demonstration after receiving its draft bill on 19th March 1948. Finally, the legislature passed the Bill through an amendment on 8th April 1948.
• The Union Government received all the Provincial Governments’ consent to initiate and implement the Cadet Corps Scheme in the next stage. The Centre also accepted their opinion to form Cadet Corps by naming it “National Cadet Corps”.
• The Bill got Governor General’s assent on 16th April 1948, which gave birth to NCC through The ‘National Cadet Corps Act 1948’. After that, the schools and colleges inaugurated this organisation on 15th July 1948.

Aim of National Cadet Corps

This organisation outlaid its aims in 1988, which prevailed throughout and fulfilled its requirement in the contemporary socio-economic scenario. Following are its primary goals:

• It aims in character development in the country’s youth by instigating discipline, leadership, comradeship, secular viewpoint, adventurous spirit and altruist principles.
• Additionally, it focuses on creating human resources of well-trained, motivated and organised youth.
• National Cadet Corps nurtures the youth towards leading and serving the nation throughout their life, regardless of their career.
• Moreover, it bestows an appropriate environment to motivate the young cadets to pursue their careers in Armed Forces.

Motto of National Cadet Corps

The purpose of having a motto for NCC India was studied on 11th August 1978 in the 11th Central Advisory Committee meeting. The members of the Committee suggested the following mottos –

• Duty and Unity
• Duty and Discipline
• Unity and Discipline
• Duty, Unity and Discipline

Among all these recommendations, they selected “Unity and Discipline” in the next CAC meeting of 12th October 1980.

Fundamental Values of National Cadet Corps

This organisation has adopted some values to ingrain among all grades by conducting its activity. These values are as follows:

• Encouraging cadets for patriotic commitment to contribute and serve the nation
• Inducing a sense of cohesive society and national unity by respecting religious, cultural, linguistic, ethnicities diversity
• Explicating the importance of justice and authorities’ unbiased exercises
• Making cadets learn, understand and obey the values and norms established by the Indian Constitution
• Building their ability to partake in social and community development programs
• Encouraging towards a restrained and healthy living, free of harmful practices
• Developing compassion for socially and economically distressed people
• Inspiring cadets to value sacrifice, honesty, hard work and perseverance
• Instilling respect for wisdom, knowledge and ideal power

Training of National Cadet Corps

The NCC training takes place as follows:

• Cadets under Senior Division and Senior wings undergo 3 years of training.
• The training period of Junior Division and Junior wing cadets is 2 years.
• All cadets must go through a total of 4 hours of service training in a week.
• They also must go through service training for 75% of the total hours of annual school and college sessions.
• Every cadet, including Junior Divisions completing 1 year and pursuing the 2nd year, must attend 9 to 10 days of annual training camp.
• The duration of this camp extends up to 30 days.
• The cadets receive their training completion certificate after this training camp.
• There are 3 types of certificates: Certificate A, B and C. Certificate A is the lowest level, and C is the highest.

Activities of National Cadet Corps

Followings are some activities of the National Cadet Corps:

• Republic Day Camp (RDC)
• National Integration Camp (NIC)
• Combined Annual Training Camps (CATC)
• Army Attachment Camp
• Advance Leadership Camp (ALC)
• Hiking And Trekking Camps
• Vayu Sainik Camp (VSC)
• Nau Sainik Camp (NSC)
• Thal Sainik Camp (TSC)
• Rock Climbing Camps (RCC)
• All India Yachting Regatta (AIYR)
• Youth Exchange Programme
• Air Wing Activities
• Naval Wing Activities
• Overseas Deployment

The NCC is constantly evolving according to the current social and economic aspects. Its goal is to train disciplined and responsible cadets to vindicate the nation’s unity. On top of that, the training process involves drills and military training with smaller arms. It encourages them to pursue a career in Indian Armed Force and strengthen it.

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