(2/11 Company of 11 Tamil Nadu Battalion NCC)
NCC organisation, created in 1948 by an Act of Parliament, was started in Scott Christian College in 1951 for men students. 120 cadets are given military training every year and those who are eligible are bestowed with ranks besides preference in employment opportunities. Students are encouraged to join the NCC to channel the youth energy in constructive
work and to mould their character at the most impressionable age.
Sanction was accorded to start at NCC-Army-Women’s wing and thus NCC Navy has intake of 50 and 60 cadets respectively since 2005, and thus yet another 110 cadets are given military training every year.
The aims of the NCC are:
- To develop qualities of character, courage, comradeship, discipline, leadership, secular outlook, spirit of adventure and sportsmanship and the ideals of selfless service among the youth to make them useful and patriotic citizens of India.
- To create a human resource of organised, trained and motivated youth to provide leadership in all walks of life including the Armed Forces and be always available for the service of the Nation.
NCC training includes footdrill, armsdrill, weapons training [rifle, bayonet, Light Machine Gun (LMG), Sten Machine Gun (SMG)], fieldcraft, battlecraft, scouts and patrol, field engineering, map reading, self defence, first-aid, hygiene and sanitation, civil defence and leadership training.
Opportunities are open to the cadets to attend All India Training Camps, Army Attachment Camps, National Integration Camps in different parts of India, Republic Day Parade at New Delhi, Mountaineering and Trekking Courses and Basic Leadership Courses.
Cadets, who put in more than 75% attendance will be eligible to take the ‘B’ and ‘C’ Certificate Examination at the end of the second and third year respectively.
Lt. C. Samson – ANO (NCC Army – Men & Women)
Lt. Dr. V. Robin Perinba Smith – Divisional Commander (NCC Navy)