National Cadet Corps (NCC)

          The National Cadet Corps  “Unity and Discipline”

The National Cadet Corps is the youth wing of the Indian Armed Forces with its headquarters in New Delhi, India.  Comprising the Army, the Navy and the Air Wing, engaged in grooming the youth of the country into disciplined and patriotic citizens. The soldier youth foundation in India is a voluntary organization which recruits cadets from all over India. The NCC in India was formed with the National Cadet Corps Act 1948. It was raised on July 15, 1948. It can be traced back to the ‘University Corps’, which was created under the Indian Defence Act 1917, with the objective to make up for the shortage in the Army. In 1920, when the Indian Territorial Act was passed, the ‘University Corps’ was replaced by the University Training Corps (UTC). A committee headed by H N Kunzru recommended a cadet organization to be established in schools and colleges at a national level. The soldier youth foundation Act was accepted on 15 July 1950. In 1949, the Girls Division was raised in order to give equal opportunities to school and college going girls. During Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 & Bangladesh-Pakistani war of 1971, NCC cadets were the second line of defence. They organized camps to assist ordnance  factories, supplying arms and ammunition to the front and also were used as patrol parties to capture enemy paratroopers. After the 1965 and 1971 wars, the NCC syllabus was revised. Rather than just being a second line of defence, the revised NCC syllabus laid greater stress on developing qualities of leadership and officer like qualities. The military training which the NCC cadets received was reduced and greater importance was given to social service and youth management.NCC was firstly started in 1666 in  Germany.

Motto and Aim

11th central advisory meeting (CAC) held on 11 August 1978. At that time there were many mottos in mind like “Duty and Discipline”; “Duty, Unity and Discipline”; “Duty and Unity”; “Unity and Discipline”. Later, at the 12th CAC meeting on 12 Oct 1980 they selected and declared “Unity and Discipline” as motto for the NCC.

ABOUT US

The NCC Unit in Chandra Shekhar Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur has been nurturing 54 Senior Division  NCC cadets under Infantry unit and 100 Senior Division NCC cadets under 1UP Armoured Squadron for serving the nation for more than 50 years. The units is flourishing under the patron ship of the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor Dr. Anand Kumar Singh. The units governed by Dean, College of Agriculture.

NCC Unit in CSA has given guard of honour to many reputed personalities including Vice President of  India, Governor of  Uttar Pradesh as well as other state and Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh etc. At present two units of NCC are functioning  under control of Dean, ( Dr. C.L. Maurya) College  of Agriculture out of which one is NCC infantry (54 UP BN NCC Kanpur) and the second is 1UP Armoured Squadron  Kanpur. The NCC unit of infantry is being commanded by Lt. Sarvesh Kumar (from 2017) , Professor Soil Conservation and Water Management  and the Armoured unit is being commanded by Dr. Ram Singh Umrao, Asstt. Professor  Entomology,  of  CSA university Kanpur ..