National Cadet Corps (NCC) is the largest uniformed youth organisation in India, administered through the Ministry of Defence with three wings – Army, Navy and Air Force. It has a strength of more than 15 lakh cadets under 17 directorates, from schools and colleges all over the country. NCC is a voluntary organisation aimed to develop qualities of development of character, comradeship, discipline, secular outlook, spirit of adventure, sportsmanship, and ideals of selfless service among the youth of the country and to create a human resource of organized, trained and motivated youth, to provide leadership in all walks of life and always be available for the service of the nation, and it provides a suitable environment to motivate the youth to take up a career in the Armed Forces. NCC training is a comprehensive one which covers character building and competence development, basic military training and social awareness and service for the empowerment of youth to ‘earn the right to lead’. Its training is multifaceted with institutional training, camp training, social service and community development, adventure based training and sports, and personality development. Selection to NCC is done through a three stage enrolment process – physical test, medical examination and documentation. NCC gives the cadets opportunities for attending various camps within and outside the state to have a sense of discipline and national integration. NCC cadets get the opportunity to join armed forces through direct entry. NCC subunit was started in our college in the year 1975 under 29(K) Battalion NCC, Malappuram. At present we have 106 boys (SD) and girls (SW) cadets. Capt. T. H. Jahfarali (Assistant Professor in Commerce) is the Associate NCC Officer. “Unity and Discipline” is the motto of NCC!!
