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Our Institution is an old and renowned one having celebrated Golden Jubilee in the year 2013. NCC Army wing of our college has been functioning since 1962. At that time our NCC unit was under Salem Independent NCC Company.
Being a retired Army Personal our former President of Kandaswami Kandar’s Trust Mr. M. Rathinasabapathi evinced keen interest in NCC and promoted the NCC wing of our College.
Our College is rural based and the students who hail from remote villages are of robust health. Having trained in NCC they have been selected in the Army Recruitment and State Police service.
R. Saravanan was awarded Gold medal in Obstacle Course at National level in the year 1993.
NCC cadet Mr. M. Ramakrishnan was awarded “All India Best Cadet Trophy” in the Republic Day Camp at New Delhi in 2001.
Our College NCC cadets have been participating in Republic Day camps at New Delhi since 1962 regularly.
The strength of our NCC Senior Division (Boys) is 52 and Senior wing (Girls) is 56. The Training is conducted as per the direction of the Commanding Officer 15(TN) Battalion NCC, Erode. Under the able guidance of our Principal Dr. N. Thangaraj, who himself was the previous NCC officer of our College, the NCC of our College is performing admirably.
Our College NCC unit has organized many social service activities like Blood Donation Camp, Tree Plantation, Anti Tobacco Rally, AIDS Awareness Programme and so on.
We feel proud of mentioning that under the direction of NCC Battalion Erode we are conducting two NCC summer Camps since 1990.
At present Lt. Dr. A. Sankar and Lt. P. Tamilselvi are looking after the Boy’s and Girl’s wings of our College respectively.
NCC Air Wing 5(TN) Air Sqn (Tech) NCC, Salem has been established in the year 1992 in our college.
The NCC Air Wing unit was first led by Prof. N. Thangaraj, Assistant Professor, Department of Botany (1993–2002). Then Flt Lt. Dr. M. Karthikeyan, Head of the Department of Commerce, has been serving as an Associate NCC Officer since 31.08.2002.
During this period many Camps and Programmes were conducted meticulously.
| Date | Camp/Programme | Participants |
|---|---|---|
| January-2003 | Air Attachment Camp, Dundigul | Six cadets & NCC Officer |
| 14.06.2010 – 25.06.2010 | National Integration Camp, Mysore | 10 cadets |
| 20.10.2011 – 29.10.2011 | All India Vayusanic Camp, Pondicherry | F/C S. Gunaraj, F/C R. Mailsamy |
| 10.12.2011 – 21.12.2011 | NIC Camp, Manathavadi, Kerala | NCC Officer |
| 13.09.2012 – 22.09.2012 | All India Vayusanic Camp, Pondicherry | F/C R. Gokulkumar |
| 01.11.2012 – 12.11.2012 | All India Trekking Expedition, Eranakulam | F/C K. Arunkumar, F/C S. Mahesh Kumar, F/C P. Vinoth |
| 15.12.2012 – 26.12.2012 | National Integration Camp, Mysore | CWO S. Duraisamy, F/C T. Sivakumar |
| 04.01.2013 – 13.01.2013 | South Zone Shooting Capsule, KSR College | F/C K. Arunkumar |
| 02.06.2014 – 15.06.2014 | Air Attachment Camp, Tambaram AFS | F/C K. Loganathan |
| 08.12.2014 – 19.12.2014 | NIC, Harighisha (Darjeeling, WB) | CUO J. Mathankumar, F/C T. Balamanikandan, NCC Officer |
| 08.09.2015 – 21.09.2015 | All India Vayusanic Camp, Jodhpur | CUO R. Vignesh |
| 14.09.2015 – 27.09.2015 | Air Attachment Camp, Tambaram AFS | CUO M. Chinnadurai, CWO A. Gowrishankar |
| 15.10.2016 – 26.10.2016 | National Integration Camp, Udaipur (Rajasthan) | CUO M. Chinnadurai, CWO A. Gowrishankar & NCC Officer |
As usual the enrolment of NCC cadets in the Army wing in both SD and SW was carried out in this Academic year. The strength of our NCC Senior Division (Boys) is 52 and Senior Wing (Girls) is 56. The training was conducted as per the direction of the Commanding Officer 15(TN) Battalion NCC, Erode and under the guidance of our Principal Dr.N.Thangaraj.
The Combined Annual Training Camp was held at Kongu Polytechnic College, Perundurai, Erode from 19.05.2017 to 28.05.2017. In this camp 30-SD and 23-SW cadets participated. Rain Water Harvesting Rally was also conducted.
Six SD cadets participated in the Combined Annual Training Camp cum TSC selection camp held at KSR College of Arts and Science, Tiruchengode from 19.05.2017 to 28.05.2017.
Five NCC-SW cadets participated in the All India Girls Trekking Camp held at Ooty-Nilgiris from 20.05.2017 to 29.05.2017.
Our College NCC cadet P. Kathirasan (III-B.COM) participated and won a Silver Medal in the South Zone Shooting Capsule held at Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode from 02.06.2017 to 11.06.2017.
48-SD and 40-SW NCC cadets participated in the International Yoga Day held at our College on 21.06.2017.
Basic Leadership Camp was held at Periyar Maniammai University, Vallam, Thanjavur from 13.07.2017 to 22.07.2017. 3 SD cadets: T. Ragul (II-B.Sc Maths), S. Mayilsamy (II-B.A Tamil), R. Jayakumar (II-B.A Economics) attended this camp.
NCC cadets participated in Blood Donation held in our College. Various social service activities were also conducted such as:
During the academic year 2017-2018:
NCC came into existence on the 16th July 1948, under the Ministry of Defense with the aims to develop character commandership, ideals of service and capacity for leadership in the youth of the country to stimulate interest in the defense of our country by providing service training to the youth and to build up reserve to enable the Armed Forces to expand rapidly during National Emergency.
The NCC Air wing was started in the year 1950. In our “B” Flight 5(TN) AIR SQN (TECH) NCC, Kandaswami Kandar’s College, Velur (Namakkal District), totally 50 cadets have been enrolled in the academic year.
The Combined Annual Training Camp was held at Mahendra Engineering College, Mallasamudram, Tiruchengode (TK) from 14.07.2017 to 23.07.2017. Thirty Cadets of our college participated in the camp.
CUO S.Gowsik, III B.Com. had participated in the Air Attachment Camp held at Tambaram Air Force Station from 22.10.2017 to 04.11.2017.
Our NCC Air wing Cadets visited the Sulur Air Force Station on 23.02.2017. The main purpose of the visit is to motivate the NCC Cadets to join the defense services.
Coimbatore Group Level felicitation function was held at PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore on 24.02.2017 to honour the cadets who had participated RDC/IGC/VSC/TSC Camps held at various places all over India. Our NCC Air wing Cadet CUO S.Gowsik, III B.Com., participated in the felicitation function. The Commanding Officers and all ranks of Coimbatore Group participated in the function.
Our Cadets attended the Annual Range Firing held on 04.01.2018 at KSR College of Technology, Tiruchengode and practiced with Smith and Wesson Revolver 7.62 mm Rifles and skeet shooting with double barrel gun.
The “B” Certificate Examination was held on 17th February 2018 at Vinayaka Mission Engineering College, Salem in which Seventeen Cadets appeared. The “C” Certificate Examination was held on 24th February 2018 at Vinayaka Mission Engineering College, Salem in which Fourteen Cadets appeared.
Apart from these NCC activities, our college NCC Cadets regulated the crowd during the Thaipoosam Festival on 31.01.2018 and 01.02.2018 at Kabilarmalai with Police Department.
I extend my heartfelt thanks to our Director General NCC, Dy. Director General Commodore, Officiating Group Commander and Wg Cdr. K.Jayandan, Commanding Officer, 5(TN) Air Sqn (Tech.) NCC, Salem for their guidance and encouragement throughout the year.
Social Activities Conducted by the Unit
At present Dr. M. Sivakumar has been the Care Taker of NCC Air Wing. He has been giving training to 50 cadets effectively.