SHILLONG: The Directorate of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) North Eastern Region (NCC Dte NER) on Monday said that the NCC as an elective subject has been launched successfully in close coordination with CBSE and autonomous Universities and State Education Department and Universities will be approached and sensitized to include NCC as an elective subject in State board schools, and autonomous universities of North Eastern States during the year 2014-15.
Addressing a press conference after the three day NCC Group Commanders Conference which concluded here, ADG, NCC, NER Maj Gen RK Sharma, ADG, NCC, NER said that the directorate wants to make the NCC as an optional subject in the secondary level.
The NCC Commanders Conference also expressed concern over the current status of deficiencies in girl’s enrolment and even reiterated its commitment to enhance the girls enrolment strength to 33% of the approximate 87,000 vacancies which are authorized to NCC Dte NER as their empowerment.
According to Sharma, at present, the enrolment of girl NCC cadets is only 26 per cent with total enrolment around 71, 000 in the NE region. The conference was attended by Eight Group Commanders from the States of Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Nagaland and Imphal.
According to Sharma, a streamlined financial support is essential to ensure NCC functioning is not affected by delay in releasing of funds. For speedy release of fund the involvement of bureaucracy of the states is important, he felt.
Saying that the central government and private sector are providing adequate job opportunities to the youth who have NCC A, B & C certificates but unfortunately the state governments are not providing any job opportunities to this well motivated and trained human resource, Sharma lamented. He said, “There is a need to approach the State governments to address this important aspect.”
Sharma also informed that directions have been issued to all the Group Commanders to encourage cadets to undertake social activities by adoption of villages, tree plantation, disaster relief etc as responsible citizens to make it integral part of their character building and contribute to the growth of India.
He said the organization should also hold NCC Week Celebration in their respective area of responsibility on a large scale with the theme ” Environment & Waste Management” using “Flash Mob” and road shows.
Sharma directed the commanders to take up the case with respective state governments on a fast track basis with land requirement of 6 to 8 acres and financial expenditure of approx Rs 8 to 10 crores on a roll on basis for NCC training as has been done in other states.