Kakinada: The NCC launched a pilot project on literacy, funded by UNICEF, last month in four states, including Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Jarkhand and Chhattisghar, under which NCC cadets teach the illiterate, according to Prakash Chaudhary, Director-General of NCC. Addressing a press conference here on Friday, he said, an MoU was also signed by the NCC Directorate with the UNICEF in this regard. If found successful, he said, it would be extended to other states where the literacy rate was low.
As a part of the scheme to encourage girls to join the army, 20 per cent reservation was introduced to them in the Defence academy.
Similarly the quota for the boys was doubled. General Chaudhary said that career counselling would be introduced in all the NCC units and already 258 experts in career counselling were recruited for deployment to various NCC units.
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