The Central Advisory Committee of the National Cadet Corps has proposed to introduce NCC in all new private schools under the self-financing scheme.
Disclosing this to media persons in New Delhi after the 44th Meeting of the NCC Committee, Minister of State for Defence M M Pallam Raju said it has been recommended that provision be made for NCC junior division/junior wing in the private schools having classes VIII to X/XII at the time of application for registration by the education boards.
The plan could be initially rolled out for CBSE and ICSE affiliated schools and later extended to schools under the state education boards.
The minister said the proposals would be taken up with the HRD Ministry to incorporate these provisions in the registration norms of new private schools so that the large number of children studying in private schools could also benefit from the NCC programme.
