Starting NCC in DDIT, Nadiad

 

I believe in power of truth. A person, who is true, understands truth, supports truth and has confidence, can fulfill any task. This also includes the tasks which may be defined as impossible by others.

I took admission for Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering in DDIT, Nadiad. This college is known for its strictness and discipline. When I joined I heard that it was very difficult to take any initiative to start new activity, specially the activities other than studies. As a believer of discipline, I liked it and supported it.

After my 10+2, I was interested to join defense organization. I decided to join NCC. But there was no NCC in our college. I spoke to my friends about my wish to have NCC in our college and so came to know that there are many who are interested in joining NCC. I talked to faculty working as students representative about starting NCC in our college and he agreed to help me and assigned another faculty who was NCC cadet in his graduation named Jasmin Panchal. He asked me to create an application for starting NCC, signed by all the students interested to join. I did accordingly and more than 60 students signed for joining NCC which was a respectable figure.

Now I went to battalion near to my college asking for permission to start NCC in our college. The Commanding Officer of that battalion told that as we are from technical background we should join technical wing of NCC headquartered to place about 20km away from our college. I went there and explained the officer that we want to start NCC in our college. At first, he straight away said no with the reason that students staying within a kilometer are not regular so how can we who are staying 20 km away be regular. I tried to explain him about my interest in joining Defense organization and showed the list of students interested to join them. After talk of about an hour, I was able to convince him to help us start NCC in our college.
Now the most important task was of convincing our Vice Chancellor to start NCC in our college. Our faculty representative went with our application to him and he agreed to allow us to start NCC in our college. Then I, with help of my faculty and friends, completed all the formalities needed to start NCC with both college and finally NCC was started in our college.

Today, after 2005, it is still running in my college and NCC cadets are used for escorting during national days and other important days.

DDIT, Nadiad