ANOs CONFERENCE AND BEST ANO AWARDS
Chennai, 20 Nov 2020
The first ever ANOs conference was conducted at the NCC Directorate, Fort St George on 19 Nov 20 under the Chairmanship of Deputy Director General, Commodore Malay K Kukreti. ANO or Associate NCC Officers are teachers from educational institutes that have NCC Cadets. ANOs play a vital role in NCC as they are instrum ental in selection and training of Cadets and are also the primary link between NCC Battalions and institutions.
Representatives from all six NCC Groups from the Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and Andaman & Nicobar Directorate attended the conference and discussed issues such as way-ahead in online training, challenges in enrolment of cadets, innovative measures in institutional training and various incentives available to NCC cadets at State and Central Govt levels. Owing to its success, it was decided to make the conference an annual affair. A competition for selection of the best ANO, in the Senior and Junior category of the directorate, was held in the beginning of the year.
The event was culminated by presentation of awards to ANOs, wherein Lieutenant Dr. P. Arularasan from 1 (TN) Bn NCC, Madras Group of DG Vaishnav College was adjudged Best ANO in the Senior category and Second Officer S Jayamurugan from 3 (TN) Air Sqn NCC, Trichy Group of Higher Secondary School for Boys in the Junior category.
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PS/SK/AK/11/2020
