NCC Tiruchi Group emerges overall winner

Colonel A. P. Singh, Station Commander, Station Headquarters, Tiruchi, (centre), handing over the trophy to the Tiruchi Group in Tiruchi on Wednesday.The NCC Tiruchi Group emerged as the overall winners in the 12-day State-level inter group competitions organised here to select the senior and junior division cadets to represent the Tamil Nadu Directorate for the Thal Sainik Camp to be held at New Delhi in the last week of September.

Colonel A.P. Singh, Station Commander, Station Headquarters, Tiruchi presented the trophy to the Tiruchi Group at the valedictory function of the combined annual training camp cum inter group competitions organised at Jamal Mohamed College here on Wednesday.As many as 50 cadets from Madras A, B, Pondicherry, Tiruchi, Madurai and Coimbatore Groups out of the total 90 cadets who took part in the competitions were chosen.They will represent the Tamil Nadu Directorate for the all-India level Thal Sainik Camp.Around 360 cadets from various schools and colleges in Tiruchi and Dindigul districts participated in the combined annual training camp, organised by the 2 (TN) Battalion NCC, Tiruchi.

Distributing the trophies, Colonel Singh said that the NCC develops character, a sense of responsibility and leadership qualities among the cadets.It also opens up avenues for the cadets to join the armed forces, which offers excellent opportunities to the young minds, he added.Presiding over the event, Colonel M.N. Nath, Officiating Commander, NCC Group Headquarters, Tiruchi said that the NCC helped the cadets in becoming good professionals besides making them good human beings.The Principal, Jamal Mohamed College, M. Sheikh Mohamed, Lieutenant N. Abdul Ali, Associate NCC Officer of the college and the Deputy Camp Commandant, spoke on the occasion.Prizes were distributed to the cadets who emerged winners in the various competitions conducted as part of the camp.