Under the direction of Colonel D Roy, Commanding Officer 27 CG BN (Battalion) NCC (National Cadet Crops) Raipur and assistance of DC Parsai Principal Bhilai Vidyalaya, A Certificate exam for Junior Division (Class 8 to 10) wing cadets was held at Bhilai Vidyalaya Sector 2. 263 cadets (both boys & girls) of BSP (Bhilai Steel Plant) English Medium Senior Secondary School Sector 4, BSP English Medium Senior Secondary School Sector 7, BSP Higher Secondary School Sector 1, BSP Girls Higher Secondary School Sector 5, Lokbharti Higher Secondary School Supela and Host Bhilai Vidyalaya Sector 2 participated.
Pravin Vishwakarma, Second Officer Bhilai Vidyalaya informed that A Certificate consists of
Practical and theory exam. The practical exam comprises of viva questions of drill, map reading, field craft, battle craft, weapon training as well as examination of different commands of drill. Similarly in written exam, ques-tions related to general knowledge, primary medical treatment, map reading, weapon training, national integration and leadership have asked to cadets in different sections, he added.
Vijay Kumar Pawar, first officer BSP English Medium Senior Secondary School Sector 7 said eli-gible conditions for A Certificate exam are cadet must attended a minimum of 75% of total training periods laid down in the syllabus for the first and second years of Junior Division/Wing NCC (all wings). Break in the NCC service of the cadet prior to his or her appearing. In the examination should not ex-ceed more than 12 month at one time, to count his or her service. In case the break exceeds 12 months, he or she has been on the unit rolls for a minimum of two years before it discharge and had attended 75% of the total period during it NCC Service he will need another 45 peri-ods of training to become eligible for certificate 'A' examination. In all other cases where above conditions are not fulfilled, the cadet must at-tended a minimum of 75% periods of the first and second year of training.
The third important factor is cadet should attend an annual train-ing camp Pawar further mentioned.
Uma Pandey, Third Officer BSP Girls Higher Secondary School in-formed that after clearing A certificate exam cadet will be awarded 10 , bonus marks in B Certificate Exam and also 5 bonus marks in railway and defense jobs.
The examiners were Subedar DR Thapa, Subedar Ramnaresh, Subedar Mahendra Singh, BHM Suryabahadur Thapa, Hawaldar Arjun, Hawaldar Bhupendra, CHM Virendra Bahadur, Hawaldar Bharat and CB Gurang all came from 27CG BN NCC Raipur.
Sudedar Mahendra Singh appre-ciated the performance of cadets and said Bhilai students have lots of interest in NCC in state. He wished cadets would be selected in Indian Army in a large number.
SK Pillai, Second Officer from BSP English Medium Senior Secondary School Sector 4; SK Kankrayne, among others were also present.