22-Jul-2022: Expansion of National Cadet Corps

The Government has launched expansion of NCC in Border Tehsils, Coastal Taluks and taluks housing Air Force Stations by providing 1 lakh vacancies.  This includes 92 Coastal Taluks. The details are as follows: 

The details of incentives provided to NCC cadets (Educational Institutions and Employment) are given below:

• Incentives in educational institutions, inter-alia, include:

State Governments have notified incentives for NCC ‘A’, ‘B’ and ‘C’ Certificate holders for admissions into higher educational institutions by way of (a) reserving percentage of seats and/or (b) weightage in terms of grace / bonus marks. 

• Incentives in job opportunities:
  1. Armed Forces: Vacancies are reserved in the officer cadre by each of the Services for NCC ‘C’ Certificate holders as below:

* Two courses are inducted per year.

SD – Senior Division (Boys)

SW – Senior Wing (Girls)

2. Other Ranks of Armed Forces: Bonus marks are provided to NCC ‘A’, ‘B’ & ‘C’ certificate holders when applying for Other Ranks of Armed Forces.
3. Ministry of Home Affairs: Government of India, Ministry of Home Affairs has provided following incentive/bonus marks to NCC ‘A’, ‘B’ & ‘C’ Certificate holders in recruitment examination for the post of Sub-Inspector (General Duty) and Constable (General Duty), Central Armed Police Forces (CAPFs):
   • NCC ‘C’ Certificate – 5% of max marks.
   • NCC ‘B’ Certificate – 3% of max marks.
   • NCC ‘A’ Certificate – 2% of max marks.
4. Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways: Government of India, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways has also provided following incentives to all Under Graduate and Post Graduate programmes of Indian Maritime University:
   • NCC ‘C’ Certificate – 5% of max marks.
   • NCC ‘B’ Certificate – 3% of max marks.
   • NCC ‘A’ Certificate – 2% of max marks.

16-Sep-2021: MoD constitutes High Level Expert Committee for a comprehensive review of NCC

Ministry of Defence has constituted a High Level Expert Committee, under the chairmanship of former Member of Parliament Shri Baijayant Panda, for a comprehensive review of National Cadet Corps (NCC) in order to make it more relevant in changed times. The Terms of Reference of the Committee, inter-alia, broadly provide for suggesting measures which can empower NCC cadets to contribute more effectively towards nation building and national developmental efforts in various sectors; propose measures for gainful engagement of its Alumni for betterment of the organisation as a whole and to study/recommend best practices of similar international youth organisations for inclusion in the NCC curriculum.

The NCC is the largest uniformed organisation which aims at developing character, discipline, a secular outlook and ideals of selfless service amongst young citizens. It also aims to create a pool of organised, trained and motivated youth with leadership qualities in all walks of life.

17-Jul-2018: Committee set up to synergise NCC and NSS

Government has decided to set up a committee under the Chairmanship of Shri Anil Swarup, former Secretary, School Education, with suitable representations from NCC, M/o Youth Affairs and Ministry of HRD to suggest measures to strengthen National Cadet Corps (NCC) and National Service Scheme (NSS).

The Committee will deal with on issues like expansion, strengthening training infrastructure, rationalizing resources, reducing manpower deficiency affecting NCC and NSS. The Committee will also submit recommend for building synergies between these two institutions viz. NCC and NSS and further strengthen them for empowering the youth.

At present, there are 13.5 lakh cadets in NCC in the age group of 12 to 26 years with pan India presence in about 703 out of 716 districts.  There are a large number of educational institutions in the country including as much as 8600 on waitlist in which NCC is yet to be extended.  There is also an existing shortage in the NCC manpower across the categories ranging from 5% to 36%.

The NCC has an annual budget allocation of about Rs.2200 crore with Central Government share of about Rs.1600 crore.  NCC, with this meagre resources, is not able to expand itself and to cover all the districts of the country and cater to the needs of waitlisted educational institutions.

A meeting was held recently in PMO to revamp the NCC and NSS.  Ministry of Youth Affairs, Ministry of Human Resource Development and NCC through the Ministry of Defence participated in the discussion.  The discussion was mainly focused on taking measures for strengthening NCC and NSS and how youth could be empowered through these institutions.  NSS has been playing a very active role in the service of the nation, particularly in the Government’s Programme such as Swachh Bharat Mission.