Tree Planting Campaign For NCC
Associate NCC Officer Tamilvanan, 2(TN) Air Sqn NCC (right), receiving a sapling on behalf of the unit from Vice-Chancellor of Bharathiar University G. Thiruvasagam at PSG College of Arts and Science in the city on Monday. Wing Commander V. Mohan, Commanding Officer, 2(TN) Air Sqn NCC (left), and Sheela Ramachandran, principal of the college, are in the picture.Apart from environmental awareness, the cadets of the National Cadet Corps (NCC) should involve themselves in activities of poverty alleviation, especially that of rural India, Bharathiar University Vice-Chancellor G. Thiruvasagam said here on Monday.Launching the tree planting campaign of the NCC Group of Coimbatore at the PSG College of Arts and Science, the Vice-Chancellor said poverty could not be alleviated by giving employment or money, but by putting in place effective literacy programmes, to be implemented by the NCC cadets.
He planted saplings on the college premises and also handed over saplings to 1,200 cadets of schools and colleges.He pointed out that the university had made NCC a compulsory part of the Choice Based Credit System for those pursuing graduation in the university and affiliated colleges. Those who chose NCC as one of the electives, would get two credits, the Vice-Chancellor said.Wing Commander V. Mohan, Commanding Officer, 2(TN) Air Squadron NCC, said that though the original scope of NCC was limited to military training, with the changing politico-social conditions, the NCC had evolved as a larger organisation with broader aims and assumed enhanced social responsibility.The cadets took a pledge to nurture the saplings that they would be planting in their schools and colleges. Earlier, an aero-modelling flying show was performed by the cadets of the 2(TN) Air Sqn NCC on the college premises.
