NCC Additional Director General visits Sainik School East Siang

Additional Director General of National Cadet Corps, North Eastern Region, Shillong, Major General Bhaskar Kalita visited SSES with a mission to raise NCC Sub Unit
NCC Additional Director General visits Sainik School East Siang

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PASIGHAT: Additional Director General of National Cadet Corps, North Eastern Region, Shillong, Major General Bhaskar Kalita visited Sainik School East Siang (SSES) with a mission to raise NCC Sub Unit, sanctioned by Director General NCC, New Delhi.

He assured to impart military training to 150 Cadets of Class IX and X to qualify for NCC 'A' Certificate and officially handed over the Govt Sanction Letter (GSL) and some required materials to the SSES Principal, Commander Praveen Kumar Pola.

Addressing the cadets and faculties on the occasion, Kalita informed that the raising of the NCC Unit was part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's initiative and vision to expand NCC training to border areas, adding that he himself was a cadet of Goalpara Sainik School, Assam earlier in the 70s. Re-collecting his school days, Kalita stated that cadets were the future citizens of the country and NCC made them disciplined, responsible, and worthy citizens of the nation.

Citing an example, he told the cadets that Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was the first cadet of NCC and mentioned that many Army, Navy, and Air Force Commissioned Officers, Service Chiefs, Governmental Heads, political leaders, IAS and IPS officers, intellectuals, leading entrepreneurs and industrialists, including the present Vice President of India, were from Sainik Schools. He further informed the cadets that three ace pilots of the Indian Air Force were from Arunachal Pradesh, namely, Flight Lieutenants Ongpee Maunglaung, Kuru Hassang, and Group Captain Mohonto Pangging, YSM and Air Cmde RD Musabi (Retd).

Meanwhile, MLA Ninong Ering, along with parents' representatives, commissioned the newly-installed Kirloskar Brushless Diesel Generator at the prefabricated campus, which was donated by the parents.

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