NDA: Convocation of the landmark 148th course today

The convocation ceremony for 148th course of the NDA which comprises the first batch of women cadets will be held on Thursday. Prof Dr Poonam Tandon, Vice Chancellor, Deen Dayal Upadhyay University, Gorakhpur, will be the Chief Guest.

The cadets will be conferred the degree and course completion certificates from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU). The degrees awarded include those in Science stream, Computer Science and Social Science stream. Some of the cadets of Navy and Air Force and cadets from the BTech stream will receive their three years course completion certificates. These Naval and Air Force cadets will be conferred with the degrees after completion of one year training at their respective pre-commissioning training academies i.e. Indian Naval Academy and Air Force Academy (AFA) respectively.

General Vijay Kumar Singh (Retd), former Chief of Army Staff and current Governor of Mizoram, will be the Reviewing Officer for the Passing Out Parade (POP) of the historic 148th course of the National Defence Academy (NDA), scheduled for May 30.