Monday, November 24, 2008

1st JSW-NDA COURSE Website

Veterans of the Three Defence Services of India, Serving Fraternity, the Nation at large and readers of the Blog www.reportmysignals.blogspot.com.

A large number of officers of the Indian Defence Services have had the privilege of being trained at the National Defence Academy Clement Town, Dehardun and later after the Academy shifted to Khadakvasla, in Dec 1954.

The First Course/Batch of any training institution has a special place in its history and progress. We from the First Course JSW/NDA are lucky to have this privilege as far as NDA is concerned.

It is my added privilege and pleasure to have conceptualized, worked on the content and get a website designed for our Course. The website can be seen at the link: National Defence Academy: 1st course JSW

The authorities in the Ministry of Defence and Services Headquarters, before and after the Independence and Partition of India on 15 Aug 1947, did a commendable job in raising this Institution, the First of its kind in the World, where officer cadets of the three Services were to be trained together. This was more so, considering that the Nation was in turmoil due to the partition of the Country, there were riots and brutal violence, migration of millions from one part of united India to the other and millions of refugees were to be settled.

The Website explains the process of planning and establishing the Joint Services Wing at Clement Town and the beginnings and experience of the First Course for two years while they were under training there. Details of subsequent pre commission training of the Army Cadets at IMA Dehradun, the Naval Cadets in England and India and of the Air Force Cadets at Air Force Academy at Jodhpur and Begumpet are also included. An overview of the performance of the Course while in Service is also covered.

Hopefully, after seeing this website, some other NDA courses and courses from other such training establishments will be motivated to have websites of their own.

This website will be linked to the official website of the NDA, shortly.

Harbhajan Singh
Lt Gen (Retd) PVSM
Signal Officer-in-Chief Indian Army, 1988-91
Member of the First Course JSW/NDA
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