Jaipur: With an aim to make cadets more confident and raising their chances to get recruited in defence services, NCC is now looking to set up ‘language labs’ in its units.
“We must have language labs where we can give training to cadets on languages particularly English so as to improve their confidence level and making them more capable,” DG NCC Lt Gen P S Bhalla told reporters at NCC complex here on Saturday.
The NCC’s motive is to promote the cadets to join armed forces and a good command over English will surely help them, he said. “Such labs do exist in some places but these are in schools and colleges and we are sharing with them.
The number is around 25-30 but we need to have more than 100 and in next 6-8 month we plan to increase the existing number,” he said.
Emphasising on the enrolment of girl cadets, Bhalla said, current percentage of girl cadets in Rajasthan is only 18 against the national percentage of 25 and NCC plans to increase it to 30-33 per cent in the next 3-4 years. “It is important for giving equal opportunities for girls and for that we are raising another girls unit in Rajasthan.
We will raise three units in the state and one of them will be for girls,” he said. Currently, there are two NCC units for girls in the state including one in Jaipur. “The new unit could be in Jaipur or Jodhpur depending upon the number of girls,” he said.
Bhalla said, NCC will increase its strength to 15 lakh from present 13.4 lakh cadets and improve training structure in next three years.
He said that the NCC has a plan to raise 5 Group HQs and 60 units in the country in five years out of which 1 HQ and 12 units have already raised last year.
Later, Bhalla also visited the NCC units in the NCC complex and interacted with cadets in the presence of Commander Ashutosh Sharma, CO- Naval NCC, Wing Commander Shobit Prakash, CO- 1 Raj Air Squadron and others. Prior to his visit to the NCC complex, he called on the Rajasthan Chief minister Ashok Gehlot and apprised him of the NCC’s plans to raise three units in the state and improvement in enrollment of girl cadets.
He also discussed with him a proposal to set up an NCC academy here so that camps and training of the cadets can be held at one place. (PTI)