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It seems that many of this forum members are quite young or non-Pakistani college graduates, that's why they are making some wrong assumptions. I did my NCC in 1996-97, infact it was the last year for NCC, after 1997 NCC was abolished. Let me clear some points for those who don't know about it based on my personal experience of NCC
1: National Cadet CORPS (NCC) trainers were Pakistan Army junior ranks soldiers, mostly sepoy, Naik, Lance Naik and they operated in groups of 10-12 men per training group. Average group size was about 150-200 students in my days.
2: NCC training was 40 days in total divided in 2 years. 20 days training in first year of college (11th Standard) and then again 20 days training in second year of college (12th standard). After completing 40 days training students were given NCC certificates.
3: NCC was never mandatory it was optional and any student could opt out of it. But it carried 20 extra marks for university admissions and everybody wanted that extra 20 marks.
4: Any college willing to do NCC training for their students registered itself with local NCC center and colleges were given timetable & schedule on availability basis some time NCC staff used to merge smaller colleges together
5: there is no housing or transport involved on army or college part. You just put on the khaki uniform as in PMA and green beret with NCC insignia and instead of going to college you would go to designated ground mostly some local college cricket ground. Trainers and college used to mark student attendance there. 4-5 hours training and students can go home
6: It was very basic training. March past, some military commands knowledge, fire drills, running, crawling, first aid training and basic safety training and stuff like that. In second year students were taken to local firing range for some G3 training.
7: NCC was intended to help civil defense only during war scenario. We were just happy to avoid college classes and having some fun and mostly we were exited to wear military uniform. I remember that our training staff used to tell us war stories and encourage us to join army after completing college. It was a good recruitment tool for army and a good PR exercise as well. it is nothing like mandatory military training in countries like Korea or some European countries.
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It seems that many of this forum members are quite young or non-Pakistani college graduates, that's why they are making some wrong assumptions. I did my NCC in 1996-97, infact it was the last year for NCC, after 1997 NCC was abolished. Let me clear some points for those who don't know about it based on my personal experience of NCC
1: National Cadet CORPS (NCC) trainers were Pakistan Army junior ranks soldiers, mostly sepoy, Naik, Lance Naik and they operated in groups of 10-12 men per training group. Average group size was about 150-200 students in my days.
2: NCC training was 40 days in total divided in 2 years. 20 days training in first year of college (11th Standard) and then again 20 days training in second year of college (12th standard). After completing 40 days training students were given NCC certificates.
3: NCC was never mandatory it was optional and any student could opt out of it. But it carried 20 extra marks for university admissions and everybody wanted that extra 20 marks.
4: Any college willing to do NCC training for their students registered itself with local NCC center and colleges were given timetable & schedule on availability basis some time NCC staff used to merge smaller colleges together
5: there is no housing or transport involved on army or college part. You just put on the khaki uniform as in PMA and green beret with NCC insignia and instead of going to college you would go to designated ground mostly some local college cricket ground. Trainers and college used to mark student attendance there. 4-5 hours training and students can go home
6: It was very basic training. March past, some military commands knowledge, fire drills, running, crawling, first aid training and basic safety training and stuff like that. In second year students were taken to local firing range for some G3 training.
7: NCC was intended to help civil defense only during war scenario. We were just happy to avoid college classes and having some fun and mostly we were exited to wear military uniform. I remember that our training staff used to tell us war stories and encourage us to join army after completing college. It was a good recruitment tool for army and a good PR exercise as well. it is nothing like mandatory military training in countries like Korea or some European countries.
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