New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said the expansion of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) has been ensured in 173 border and coastal districts and nearly one lakh new cadets will get special traning under the mission.
In his Independence Day speech, he said one-third of the one lakh new cadets will be girls.
Addressing the nation from the ramparts of the Red Fort, he said, “Now, expansion of the NCC has been ensured in 173 border and coastal districts. Under this mission, one lakh NCC cadets will receive special training. Of this, one-third will be girls.”