Shillong, March 24: The National Cadet Corps North Eastern Region Group Commanders’ Conference was held at NCC Directorate North Eastern Region, Shillong from 23-24 Mar 2022.
The conference was chaired by Major General Bhaskar Kalita, YSM, Additional Director General and attended by all the eight Group Commanders from the North East viz. Guwahati, Jorhat, Tezpur, Dibrugarh, Kohima, Shillong, Imphal and Silchar.
The conference was aimed to review the NCC activities carried out in the preceding year and discuss ways and means to spread awareness and improve NCC footprints in the remote areas of North Eastern Region.
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.
Major General Bhaskar Kalita urged all the Group Commanders to proactively interact with respective State Administration to resolve state specific issues. NCC Directorate North Eastern Region is responsible to provide NCC cover to the seven states of North East.
It has eight Group Headquarters and 47 NCC Battalions and an enrolled cadet strength of 89289 which includes both boys and girls of all the three wings of Armed Forces namely Army, Air Force and Navy.
