PASIGHAT, 27 Sep: The National Cadet Corps’ (NCC) Shillong (Meghalaya)-based Northeastern Region Additional Director General (ADG), Maj Gen Bhaskar Kalita, visited the sainik school here in East Siang district on 26 September on a mission to raise an NCC sub-unit, sanctioned by the NCC director general, in the school.
The ADG assured to impart military training to 150 cadets of Classes 9 and 10 “to help them qualify for NCC A certificates,” and officially handed over the government sanction order and some required materials to Sainik School Principal, Commander Praveen Kumar Pola.
Addressing the cadets and the faculty members, Maj Gen Kalita informed that “the raising of NCC unit is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s initiative and vision to expand NCC training to border areas,” and said that “the cadets are the future citizens of the country and NCC makes them disciplined, responsible and worthy citizens.”
He told the cadets that “Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose was the first cadet of the NCC, and several army, navy and Air Force commissioned officers, service chiefs, governmental heads, political leaders, IAS and IPS officers, intellectuals, leading entrepreneurs and industrialists, besides the present vice president of India were from sainik schools.”
He further informed that three ace pilots of the Indian Air Force – flight lieutenants late Ongpee Maunglaung and late Kuru Hassang, group captain Mohonto Panging, and retired air commodore RD Musabi – were from Arunachal Pradesh.
He commended the sainik school principal “for his able leadership and commendable job to bring back the school from tough times and running strong with 300 cadets in a very short span of time.”
On the same day, Pasighat West MLA Ninong Ering, along with parents, commissioned the newly installed Kirloskar brushless diesel generator, donated by the parents, for the prefabricated campus of the sainik school here.
Ering assured to “allocate some amount for the school” from his MLALAD fund “for further development of the Hangpan Dada cadets’ mess of the school. (DIPRO)
