The National Defence Academy (NDA) has got the final approval for introducing BTech courses for its cadets from June this year. The Chief of Staff Committee, who advises the government and ensures jointsmanship in the armed forces, has given a nod to the NDA to kick off the new course.
The course will be implemented in two phases – in phase I Naval cadets of the 136th course (which will start in the month of June) will pursue the course and in the second phase Army and Air Force cadets will be allowed to pursue the course only after getting approval from the respective headquarters of the forces.
Confirming this development, NDA PRO Lt Commander Shibu Devasia told Sakal Times that Naval cadets of the 136th course will initially pursue the course. “We expect a strength of around 30 to 40 cadets in the first batch of the course,” he added.
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These cadets will study the course for three years at the NDA and the final two semesters will be completed at the respective finishing academies. The BTech degree will be given in three streams – Mechanical, Electronics and Telecommunication and Computer Science.
“The academic syllabus has been approved by JNU while the All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE), after examining the infrastructure at the academy, gave their go-ahead for the course,” Devasia said.
On the onset of the course, the recruitment of lecturers, civilian staff and improvement in the infrastructure will be done by the academy, NDA sources said. The academy is a tri-services training academy and cadets join after Class XII. Presently, after completing a three-year training, the cadets are awarded a BA or BSc degree.
Thereafter, these cadets go for a year to the Indian Military Academy (IMA) at Dehradun, INA at Ezhimala and the Air Force Academy (AFA) at Dundigul for their advanced training of their respective force. Interestingly, way back in 2012, the academy had started BTech courses and 350 cadets from 127th course had joined but it had to shut as they could not get requisite approval from concerned authorities.
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source: sakaaltimes
