GUWAHATI: The youngest of the country's 26 Sainik Schools, the feeder schools for National Defence Academy (NDA), Sainik School Chhingchhip in Mizoram introduced down probably the most previous couple of male bastions in the country's defence products and services with the becoming a member of of six woman cadets on Monday.
Defence PRO, Col C Konwer mentioned, "History was created on June 4 when six girls joined the Sainik School Chhingchhip, Mizoram in Class VI along with 54 boys. Sainik School Chhingchhip has now become the first school under the aegis of Sainik School Society to induct girl cadets."
UP Sainik School, which enrolled girls for the primary time in April this 12 months, is Uttar Pradesh state-funded faculty and isn't same as other Sainik Schools which can be managed by Sainik Schools Society at once underneath the ministry of defence ministry where the chairman of the society is the defence minister.
The defence PRO mentioned that on this history-making occasion, faculty primary Lt Col Inderjeet Singh welcomed the batch of 2018-19 consisting of 60 cadets, including the six girls, who have been selected through tough variety process which incorporated written test and interview.
“Sainik Schools are established to arrange students for entry into the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla Pune and Indian Naval Academy,” the PRO mentioned. As of now both NDA and INA are purely for boys but with the hole of the gates to women, there is hope that those two establishments might observe suit in the future.
Setting up of Sainik Schools was offered in 1961, the primary one to turn into operational was Sainik School Satara in Mahrashtra from June, 1961. Four extra such schools started in later months in the same 12 months—at Kunjpura in Haryana, Kapurthala in Punjab, Balachadi in Gujarat and at Chittorgarh in Rajasthan. Sainik School Chhingchhip was started in 2017.
Sainik School Tilaiya in Jharkhand is the largest one with a licensed strength of 870 cadets from magnificence VI to XII.
It was the brain kid of former defence minister VK Krishna Menon to set up sainik schools with the targets of putting off regional imbalance in the officer cadre of the defence products and services and to deliver public faculty schooling inside the succeed in of the average guy and therefore increase younger boys to turn into good and useful citizens.
Defence PRO, Col C Konwer mentioned, "History was created on June 4 when six girls joined the Sainik School Chhingchhip, Mizoram in Class VI along with 54 boys. Sainik School Chhingchhip has now become the first school under the aegis of Sainik School Society to induct girl cadets."
UP Sainik School, which enrolled girls for the primary time in April this 12 months, is Uttar Pradesh state-funded faculty and isn't same as other Sainik Schools which can be managed by Sainik Schools Society at once underneath the ministry of defence ministry where the chairman of the society is the defence minister.
The defence PRO mentioned that on this history-making occasion, faculty primary Lt Col Inderjeet Singh welcomed the batch of 2018-19 consisting of 60 cadets, including the six girls, who have been selected through tough variety process which incorporated written test and interview.
“Sainik Schools are established to arrange students for entry into the National Defence Academy (NDA), Khadakwasla Pune and Indian Naval Academy,” the PRO mentioned. As of now both NDA and INA are purely for boys but with the hole of the gates to women, there is hope that those two establishments might observe suit in the future.
Setting up of Sainik Schools was offered in 1961, the primary one to turn into operational was Sainik School Satara in Mahrashtra from June, 1961. Four extra such schools started in later months in the same 12 months—at Kunjpura in Haryana, Kapurthala in Punjab, Balachadi in Gujarat and at Chittorgarh in Rajasthan. Sainik School Chhingchhip was started in 2017.
Sainik School Tilaiya in Jharkhand is the largest one with a licensed strength of 870 cadets from magnificence VI to XII.
It was the brain kid of former defence minister VK Krishna Menon to set up sainik schools with the targets of putting off regional imbalance in the officer cadre of the defence products and services and to deliver public faculty schooling inside the succeed in of the average guy and therefore increase younger boys to turn into good and useful citizens.
Six girl cadets join Sainik School Chhingchhip in Mizoram
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