INCULCATE LEADERSHIP QUALITY IN THE CADETS
– LT GEN SK SINHA
Governor of Jammu
and Kashmir Lt Gen SK Sinha called upon the youth to work for
the strengthening of the country. Addressing an Annual National
Cadet Corps (NCC) lecture on the subject "Youth As Tomorrow’s
Leaders" at Delhi Cant today, he said that youth have a great
responsibility and called upon them to get the rightful place
to India in the world. Lt Gen Sinha said that to become a good
leader you must have five attributes i.e. knowledge, character,
courage, loyalty and discipline.
He complimented the
NCC for grooming leadership quality in the cadets. He said during
his college days there were only University Officer training course
which prepared officer for the Armed Forces. The total strength
of the Cadets at that time in all the universities were limited
to 1000 only. Lt Gen Sinha said at present NCC has about 13 lakh
cadets who are being given training in not in the Armed Forces
but also in other spheres like adventure, social activities and
creating awareness against various evils prevalent in the society.
He said this training will make you good leaders.
Addressing the cadets
in the occasion guest of honour Shri Kuldip Nayar said that he
had a dream where all religions without any fear can live together.
He called upon the cadets to help them to realize this dream.
Earlier welcoming the audience Director General NCC Lt Gen BK
Bopanna said that NCC was created as university corps with the
objective to train the students for the army. In 1920, University
Corps was replaced by University Training Corps. Again in 1942,
the University training corps was renamed as university officer
training corps. The present NCC training corps was established
after independence in 1948. The Girls Division of NCC was introduced
in 1949 and the Air Force and Naval NCC wings were started in
1950 and 1952 respectively. He said NCC is the largest uniform
youth organization not in the country but in the entire world.
The NCC offers opportunity for institutional training and adventure
sports community development to the cadets. Lt Gen Bopanna further
added that NCC also have Youth Exchange Programme with several
friendly countries which helps to have better relations with them.
