{"id":262467,"date":"2025-04-13T00:17:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T18:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=262467"},"modified":"2025-04-13T00:17:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T18:47:05","slug":"puna-saalyang-from-arunachal-qualifies-for-nda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/04\/13\/puna-saalyang-from-arunachal-qualifies-for-nda\/","title":{"rendered":"Puna Saalyang from Arunachal qualifies for NDA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 12 Apr:<\/strong> Puna Saalyang, an Arunachali student from the Rashtriya Indian Military College&#8217;s (RIMC) school in Dehradun (Uttarakhand), has qualified to study to become a fighter pilot at the National Defence Academy (NDA), securing the 67th rank on the national level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saalyang has completed Class 12 from the RIMC school, and will be joining the NDA in Pune (Maharashtra) to train and study to become a fighter pilot in the Indian Air Force.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Son of District Tourism Officer Puna Rambya and Puna Yakang, Saalyang hails from Ziro in Lower Subansiri district. He did his early schooling from<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Love Dale Residential School, Hapoli, and the Doon International School in Dehradun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saalyang secured the top rank from among the candidates from the Northeast to join the RIMC school in Dehradun in November 2020.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The RIMC has one of the top military schools in India and annually conducts entrance examinations to grant admission to a select group of students.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Only two seats are allotted to the Northeast region, and Saalyang secured the top position. He secured an all-India ranking of 12th and had taken admission in Class 8 at the RIMC school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 12 Apr: Puna Saalyang, an Arunachali student from the Rashtriya Indian Military College&#8217;s (RIMC) school in Dehradun (Uttarakhand), has qualified to study to become a fighter pilot at the National Defence Academy (NDA), securing the 67th rank on the national level. Saalyang has completed Class 12 from the RIMC school, and will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-262467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}