NCC Alumni Meet Gujarat Sparks Powerful Spirit of Service
NCC Alumni Meet Gujarat highlights discipline, unity and lifelong service values
NCC Directorate Gujarat hosted its first-ever NCC Alumni Meet on 01 February 2026, marking an important moment for one of India’s largest youth organisations. The event brought together former cadets, serving cadets, families, and senior civil and military leaders. Alumni meets like this are held to reconnect former members with the organisation and to remind society of the values that NCC has passed on for decades, especially discipline, service, and national unity.
The day began with a strong public message of unity when Air Marshal Tejinder Singh AVSM, PVSM, VM, AOC-in-C, South Western Air Command, flagged off the NCC Unity March. Such marches are a long-standing NCC tradition and are often used to spread awareness about social duty, national integration, and healthy living. With over 800 alumni, cadets, and dignitaries taking part, the march showed how NCC continues to connect people across generations. The choice of the Sabarmati River as the backdrop added deeper meaning, as the river has long been linked with public movements, community life, and the idea of collective responsibility in Gujarat.
Air Marshal Tejinder Singh, himself an NCC alumnus, spoke about how NCC played a key role in shaping his life. This is a common experience shared by many senior officers across the armed forces and civil services. NCC training is known to build early leadership skills, time discipline, teamwork, and respect for diversity. Many alumni credit NCC for giving them confidence at a young age, especially through camps, drills, and outdoor activities that place cadets in real-life group situations.
Along the scenic riverfront and the iconic Atal Bridge, NCC cadets set up several kiosks to explain and demonstrate different NCC activities. These kiosks highlighted adventure training, community service, social awareness programmes, and military-style training. Adventure activities such as trekking, parasailing, and basic mountaineering are used by NCC to help young people face fear and build mental strength. Community service programmes often include blood donation camps, cleanliness drives, disaster relief support, and help during floods or cyclones. Social awareness efforts focus on issues like drug abuse prevention, road safety, digital awareness, and environmental protection. Through such public displays, NCC helps citizens understand that the organisation goes far beyond parade drills.
Later in the day, a formal ceremony was held at Law Garden, where distinguished alumni were honoured. Justice Alpesh Y. Kogje of the Gujarat High Court and Lt Gen Asit Mistry PVSM, AVSM, SM, VSM (Retd) were present as chief guests. Both have earlier served as NCC cadets, showing how the organisation feeds leadership into both the judiciary and the armed forces. Felicitation ceremonies like this are important because they give current cadets role models they can relate to and learn from.
Major General Bimal Monga SM, VSM, Additional Director General of NCC Directorate Gujarat, addressed the media and shared key data about the organisation’s reach. He said that around 85,000 cadets from all 34 districts of Gujarat, including border and coastal areas, and the Union Territories of Daman, Diu, Dadra and Nagar Haveli, are trained every year. This widespread ensures that young people from rural, urban, coastal, and sensitive border regions all get equal exposure. He also shared plans to increase this number to 1.15 lakh cadets over the next six years, showing the government’s growing trust in NCC as a nation-building platform.
He further highlighted that Gujarat alone has more than one million NCC alumni at present. Across India, NCC alumni are found in defence services, police, education, healthcare, administration, sports, media, and business. Even those who do not join uniformed services often carry NCC values into their daily work and family life. This ripple effect means that NCC’s influence goes far beyond its training grounds.
Major General Monga assured that NCC remains committed to building discipline, camaraderie, adventure, and unity among cadets. The larger aim, he said, is to shape young people into responsible citizens who can support a strong and developed India. Events like the NCC Alumni Meet help renew this mission by linking the past with the present and inspiring the next generation to live by the motto of service before self.
