City students receive Best Cadet Award at NCC camp

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, March 15

Two DAV College students have received the Best Cadet Award at the NCC’s annual camp. The 10-day camp was organised at the NCC headquarters at Ropar. Shiv Shankar and Manpreet Bawa of the college have been given cash prizes along with a trophy. Principal Dr Rajesh Sharma, said the main objective of the National Cadet Corps is to meet the test of time and is also to build the required skills among students in the current socio-economic scenario of the country. “The goal of the NCC is to develop the ideals of character building, comradeship, discipline, secular attitude, spirit of courage and self-service among the youth. I am glad that two of our students were able to prove their worth by bagging the award,” he said.

11 PBBN, NCC Commanding Officer Ratnakar Trivedi congratulated the cadets and said they had been selected among 200 students from all over Punjab.