NCC cadets taken part in large numbers in Agnipath scheme recruitment: Top official

BHOPAL: The cadets of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) have taken part in the recruitment process for the Centre's Agnipath scheme in large numbers, a top NCC official said on Thursday.

Under the Agnipath scheme, announced last year, the three defence services are recruiting youths between the age bracket of 17-and-half years and 21 years for four years with a provision to retain 25 per cent of them for another 15 more. For 2022, the upper age limit was raised to 23 years.

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Personnel recruited under this system are to be called Agniveers. "NCC cadets have taken part in the Agniveer scheme in large numbers and it (scheme) is very beneficial to them. NCC A, B and C certificate holders can take advantage of getting recruited in the armed forces through it and on completion of their service they can join other professions," NCC Director General (DG) Lieutenant General Gurbirpal Singh told reporters.

Singh, who arrived for a two-day visit to Madhya Pradesh, said the NCC has adopted a new technology to train its cadets through the use of simulators. It is also using new techniques for map reading, he said. There are a total of 14.75 lakh NCC cadets in the country, including 1.20 lakh in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, another official said.

The percentage of NCC cadets joining the army from MP and Chhattisgarh has increased to 8.25, he said. Earlier, the NCC DG gave away citations to NCC cadets in Bhopal School of Social Sciences college, and also inspected the newly-constructed firing range in the campus.

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