HISTORY OF NCC
1. The genesis of the National Cadet Corps can be traced back to that period of World War I when having been pushed to the wall; the British looked desperately towards India as a source of manpower in their war effort. The casualties suffered by the British Indian Corps in the war were so heavy that the Indian Army Reserves could not cope up with the demands of reinforcements. The British Govt in India desired greater Indian participation in the war effort, and therefore, introduced the Indian Defence Force Bill in the Legislative Council in Delhi on 21 Feb 1917. This bill sought to obtain the compulsory enrolment of the European British subjects in India and voluntary enrolment of the non-European British subjects within the country. The Bill was essentially a war measure designed to meet the immediate military requirement of the Empire.
2. Indian Defence Force Act 1917 was passed by the Governor General of British India on 28 Feb 1917. As per this Act, the Governor General could start enrolment of Indian students in a youth organization named as University Corps.
3. Today, it has taken the shape of largest uniformed youth organization in the world i.e. the National Cadet Corps of India.
4. University Officers Training Corps (UOTC).
* Indian Air Training Corps (IATC). It was inaugurated at Aligarh Muslim University in 1943 and was established to provide Air Force Training to university students.
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* Sea Scouts Corps. It was established to provide Naval training to the university students.
* Women’s Auxiliary Corps (India). It was formed on the pattern of the Women’s Auxiliary Corps UK, in 1942 and a number of Indian women from different strata of society came forward to join it to go gain a new experience. People observed and accepted the few women moving around in uniform in India with interest. The Women’s Auxiliary Corps thus, broke the ice of orthodoxy in India in many ways and paved the way for young girls to join the NCC Girls Division.
5. INDEPENDENCE & GROWTH OF NCC
The Cadet Corps Committee which was formed on 29 Sep 1946 with Pt HN Kunzru as chairman held six meetings in South Block, New Delhi. At the same time, Pt HN Kunzru formed sub-committees which were sent on study torus in all the main provinces of pre-independent India including provinces which are now located in Bangladesh and Pakistan. One sub-committee was also sent on tour to Great Britain and France from 15 Feb 1947 to 31 Mar 1947 to study the Youth and Cadet organizations in those countries.
The Cadet Corps Committee carried out exhaustive study of the problem of youth in India. Its sub-committees after their tour at home and abroad submitted their report was submitted, a far reaching political development began to impact the country, due to which the Cadet Corps Scheme had to be kept in abeyance. The religious strife which then was at its zenith, ultimately led to the partition of the country into Indian and Pakistan.
On the stroke of midnight of 14/15 Aug 1947, India achieved her independence. Immediately after independence, India was confirmed with problems of formidable magnitude concerning not only repatriation of millions of displaced persons from Pakistan but also a full scale invasion of Kashmir by the Armed tribesmen supported by Pakistan. The armed forces had to rush to retrieve Kashmir at a time when they were already pre occupied with the internal problem of maintaining law and order during the country’s initial stage of consolidation.
The war in Kashmir and the consequent loss of a portion of Indian territory; the open support of Western Powers to Pakistan in the Security Council of the United Nations, made it more than evident to the Indian leaders that they not only had to strengthen the Armed Forces but also create sufficient strength of reserves, who could take up arms, when required. The gravity of time and event found expression in the Indian Legislature through anxious and pressing demand for military training of young men and women throughout the country.
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At this juncture, Prime Minister Pt Jawahar Lal Nehru at the behest of Sardar Baldev Singh, the then Defence Minister and Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, then Home Minister, took out the Kunzuru Committee Report for a serious study from the shelves of the Defence Department. On 05 Dec 1947, after being approved by the Defence Committee the copy of the Cadet corps Committee Report was sent to the Chief Secretaries and Chief Commissioners of all Provincial Govts (now called State Govts) for their comments. The consent of Provincial Govts were required because they were responsible for the administration of the educational institutions in their respective provinces and thus the success of the Cadet Corps scheme largely depended on their initiative. Replies received from the provinces in Jan 1948, show that they all agreed in principal with the Cadet Corps Scheme submitted by the Kunzuru Committee.
National Volunteer Corps (1947 – 1950).
Though the Govt had decided to analyse and take action on the Kunzru committee report, the officials in Ministry of Defence and Ministry of Home felt that the Cadet Corps scheme would take time to take shape. Therefore, to meet the immediate requirement of national emergency, an organisation named National Volunteer Corps (NVC) was raised in Nov 1949. In the NVC mass training classes were held for volunteers for a period of 21 days, during which elementary instruction in drill and essential training for the handling of .303 rifle were imparted to the students in some colleges in the border states. The training was joint responsibility of the Army and the Police. The Army imparted the training to the volunteers who were also assessed by the Police. After successful training, a volunteer was given a certificate signed by an Army Officer and countersigned by the Superintendent of Police of the District. As the NCC started taking shape, the NVC was discontinued in 1950.
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Birth of the National Cadet Corps
The Kashmir War of 1948 taught a very important lesson to India, that freedom needs to be protected by strong Armed Forces. The Bill received the assent of the Governor General on 16 Apr 1948, and the National cadet Corps came into being by an Act of the Parliament Act No. XXXI of 1948 designated `The National Cadet Corps Act 1948’. This Act with 13 clauses, prescribed the formation of the National Cadet Corps in India.
Col (later retired as Chief of Army Staff) Gopal Gurnath Bewoor as first Director of the NCC. He took over as Director of NCC on 31 Mar 1948 to begin with, the NCC’s strength was to be 45000 cadets.
Inauguration of NCC
NCC of Independent India was inaugurated on 15 Jul 1948. The journey of this Indian youth organization, which has now become the largest uniformed youth organization in the world had begun. Thus the NCC which has now lakh cadets on its rolls, had started with 20,000 cadets in 1948.
Raising of Air Wing
1950 was also an important year for the National Cadet Corps, as it was in that year, that the inter-service character of the Corps was established when its Air Wing was raised on 01 April with one Air Squadron each at Bombay and Calcutta.
Raising of Naval Wing
The Naval Wing of the Corps came into being in Jul 1952, when the first Naval unit of the Senior Division comprising two part time officers and 60 cadets was raised in Bombay.