Nagaland NCC Cadet clears SSB, joins OTA Chennai

NCC Cadet J Jackson of 1 Nagaland Air Squadron NCC.

Kohima, October 15 (MExN): Cadet J Jackson of 1 Nagaland Air Squadron NCC cleared his Services Selection Board (SSB) and got selected for Officers Training Academy (OTA), Chennai through C Certificate special entry scheme adding another proud moment for NCC Group Headquarters, Kohima. 

Cadet Jackson joined OTA, Chennai for pre commission training and on successful completion he will be commissioned to Indian Army as commissioned Officer, stated a press release from NCC, 1 Nagaland Air Squadron. 

The release added that NCC cadets of Nagaland were undergoing training at various locations across Nagaland. NCC aims to develop qualities of character, courage, discipline, leadership, secular outlook, spirit of adventure and sportsmanship and the ideal of selfless service among the youth.

The cadets are given intensive training in drill, health and hygiene, social service activities, leadership, personality development and firing. The NCC activities of ten thousand cadets in the state are being coordinated by NCC Group Headquarters, Kohima and the Department of Youth Resources & Sports of the Government of Nagaland, it added.