The University Grants Commission (UGC) has as soon as once more urged the universities and institutes throughout the nation to introduce National Cadet Corps as a basic elective topic. The fee in its assertion wrote that the Ministry of Human Useful resource Improvement, within the JSR&D convention held on July 30, 2015, had determined to implement NCC as an elective topic, nonetheless, it had not been carried out within the desired method.
Now, because the NEP 2020 has launched a choice-based credit score system, UGC has proposed to incorporate NCC as a basic elective credit score course to profit the scholars enrolled in it.
In a letter to the state-run universities, UGC Secretary Rajnish Jain mentioned that the National Education Policy, 2020 has already acknowledged the significance of holistic training, social service, group growth as credit score programs beneath the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS).
In accordance with the proposal of UGC, the NCC credit course needs to be launched in all universities and autonomous colleges throughout India that are at the moment having NCC troops or corporations as allotted by Headquarters DGNCC. The identical shall even be carried out in personal schools which have been allotted NCC beneath the Fully Self-Financed Scheme (FSFS). Nonetheless, the credit score course wouldn’t exceed the present capability of NCC to offer trainers and coaching infrastructure for the sleek transition to the Credit Course System.
College students who’re enrolled with NCC cadets will get benefitted by acquiring educational credit for NCC training and get NCC ‘B’ and ‘C’ certificates. This will even assist extra college students as NCC cadets to avail employment incentives and advantages supplied beneath numerous Central and State Govt Schemes.
The NCC has designed a uniform and universally implementable NCC basic elective credit score course in alignment with NEP 2020. The great NCC Course design particulars together with and guidelines and laws shall be made out there on the DGNCC website. UGC has additionally hooked up the abstract of the course design together with the letter.
