The National Cadet Corps’ North Eastern Region Group Commanders’ Conference was held at the NCC Directorate North Eastern Region, Shillong on March 23-24.
The conference was chaired by Maj Gen Bhaskar Kalita, Additional Director General, and attended by all the eight Group Commanders from the North East – Guwahati, Jorhat, Tezpur, Dibrugarh, Kohima, Shillong, Imphal and Silchar.
The conference aimed to review the NCC activities carried out in the preceding year and discuss ways and means to spread awareness and improve the NCC’s footprint in remote areas of the North East.
During the conference, various functional issues such as enrolment of cadets in NCC, deficiency of civil staff, problems in direct bank transfer of various grants to NCC cadets, registration in NCC Alumni Association and adoption of NCC as elective subject by various state universities were discussed.
Maj Gen Kalita urged all the Group Commanders to proactively interact with respective state administrations to resolve state-specific issues.
NCC Directorate North Eastern Region has eight Group Headquarters and 47 NCC Battalions and an enrolled cadet strength of 89,289, which includes both boys and girls of all the three wings of Armed Forces, namely Army, Air Force and Navy.
