NCC at St. Joseph's

• With the best instruction and the principles of selfless service, NCC in St. Joseph's inspires its pupils. Training builds a sense of nationality and teamwork as well as the entire development of the person. To cultivate a pool of young people who are motivated, organized, and skilled virtually in every aspect of life. These individuals will be able to lead the country in any career path they choose. The organization is led competently by Dr. B. Babu Manoharan, the chairman, and Dr. Vaddi Seshagiri Rao, the principal and Mr. R. Sreekanth, the caretaker at St. Joseph's College of Engineering.

• Twenty SDs (Senior Division) and fifteen SWs (Senior Wing) make up a total of 35 cadets. To preserve the NCC's motto of unity and discipline, we collaborate regardless of our backgrounds. Weekly parade sessions consist of four sessions.

• Physical training: Our NCC cadets begins their day with a invigorating early morning physical session of 1 hour. We use this session to increase our muscle and core power and to improve our stamina.

• Drill: Considered a unique experience for NCC cadets, drill is the most exciting part of training. It takes place once a week in the evening. During this exercise, cadets demonstrate their drill and leadership abilities.

• Theory class: To ensure that they are informed of the culture in which they live, cadets are often trained about leadership, weapons, the military, politics, health, and cleanliness in addition to their physical training. Their confidence is also increased by this session.

Aims of NCC

• To develop qualities of character, courage, commandership, discipline, leadership, secular outlook, spirit of adventure and sportsmanship and the ideals of selfless service among the youth to make them useful citizen.

• To create a human resource of organised trained and motivated youth to provide leadership in all walks of life including the Armed Forces and be always available for the service of the nation.

NCC Song

NCC Vision

• Empower volunteer youth to become potential leaders and responsible citizens of the country.

NCC Mission

• To develop a leadership and character qualities, mould discipline and nurture social integration and cohesion through multi-faceted programs conducted in a military environment.

Basic Training

Drill

• Cadets must be made to understand the aim and purpose of teaching drill, so that they are suitably motivated and do not take it as "fatigue". Emphasis will be laid on correct bearing, marching, saluting and arms drill. Inter-squad competitions may be organized to create interest.

Weapon Training

• Cadets generally take keen interest in weapon training and firing. Units must liaise with nearby Service and Para-Military Units to ensure that all cadets get an opportunity to fire their authorized AMN (Admiralty Manual of Navigation). Use of firing simulators may be made to optimize training efforts where possible.

Adventure Training

• Adventure activities have been incorporated in NCC training with the aim of inculcating and strengthening leadership traits amongst the cadets. These activities in NCC can be broadly divided into the following. 1.Land based - Mountaineering, Rock Climbing, Trekking. 2.Water based - Sailing Expedition, White Water Rafting, Scuba Diving, River Crossing. 3.Air based - Parasailing.

Youth exchange programme

• This is a very important activity. It is done to increase international understanding and bolster awareness. These exchanges are done with NCC community of 10 countries namely Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Canada, Maldives, Nepal, Singapore, UK, Russia and Vietnam at international level.

Checks

• All OC Units are keeping a check of Institutional training regularly to ensure proper attendance. Attendance registers are marked before the commencement of the parade and NOT repeat NOT after the parade.
• All DDG's are putting an effective monitoring mechanism which is in place to check attendance and conduct of this training.

Conducted Camps

Camps Attended

Achievements

• Following successful completion of all TSC levels in obstacle training, our cadet Thiruppathiraja N was chosen for the IGC-Inter Group Camp. Our medical unit is participating in IGC for obstacle training for the first time. He also got selected for All India Thal Sainik Camp .
• One of our cadets, Singaravel G accomplished five training camps while attending Thal Sainik Camp via map reading.
• Two medals and one shield were awarded to our cadets who competed at Sir Theagaraya College's Theaga Fest'24. Those two medals were given for Best Cadet and for Best MC . And our cadets were awarded with the shield for overall Flag Area.
• In the Dr. Ambedkar Government Arts College's second Cado Bhim Intercollegiate Competition, our cadets took part and won nine accolades.
• Our college was given the DDG recognition certificate 2024 for success in numerous events under 1(TN) Med unit.
• Our caretaker, Mr. R. Sreekanth, received appreciation from the 1(TN) Med unit for his exceptional support to the cadets