The Nationwide Cadet Corps (NCC) will not stay an extra-curricular exercise as a minimum of 91 universities throughout the nation have adopted it as Basic Elective Credit score Course (GECC) beneath the Alternative Based mostly Credit score System (CBCS). The transfer is a results of a letter from the College Grants Fee (UGC) to Vice-Chancellors of all universities on April 15.
The very best variety of universities providing NCC as GECC (42) are in Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andaman and Nicobar mixed, adopted by Jammu and Kashmir (23). These embody central college of Jammu, Islamia Faculty of Science and Commerce in Srinagar and St Joseph Faculty in Trichy. Aside from these, Maharaja Sayajirao Gayakwad College in Gujarats Vadodara, Amity College in Madhya Pradesh’s Gwalior and Kalahandi College in Odisha are additionally among the many establishments providing the NCC as GECC.
The UGC’s communication was according to the Nationwide Training Coverage (NEP) 2020, which has proposed to take away the laborious separation between extra-curricular, co-curricular and curricular actions in colleges.
In accordance with the federal government, the availability of NEP 2020 will enable harnessing of the complete potential of NCC’s capability in youth improvement and enlarging the coed base taking over the coaching.
The UGC and Central Board of Secondary Training (CBSE) had first issued a round in 2013 for introduction of NCC as an elective topic on a voluntary foundation. However out of 10,397 colleges and 5,098 faculties, which had NCC then, a handful of establishments responded. As a result of restricted response, the UGC once more despatched a round in 2016, however it discovered few takers.
The proposal was mooted by the Directorate Basic of NCC in New Delhi. The DG, NCC carried out a survey earlier than suggesting efficient implementation of the proposal to extend its scope. After the survey and session course of with universities, the DG steered encouraging instructional institutes to take possession of NCC coaching, allowing non-public universities and faculties to supply NCC and a paradigm shift in its positioning from extra-curricular to mainstream exercise.
The NCC syllabus for B and C certificates is designed as per the CBCS of NEP 2020 which grants twenty 4 credit score factors protecting six semesters out of which a scholar can accrue 4 credit within the first two semesters and ten credit within the third and fourth semester and equally ten credit within the fifth and sixth semester. Within the first part of implementation, NCC as an elective course/topic can be supplied solely in these faculties which have already got NCC senior platoon or firm, and to solely these college students who enroll as NCC cadets.
NCC, the world’s largest voluntary uniformed youth organisation, was raised by Parliamentary Act No XXXI in 1948 with 20,000 cadets. It has grown in stature and dimension through the years and at the moment has a sanctioned energy of 15 lakh cadets who endure fundamental navy like coaching for 2 years within the junior wing and three years within the senior divisions.
On August 15, 2020, Prime Minster Narendra Modi introduced enlargement of NCC to frame and coastal areas.