Medical Examination of NCC Cadets - Free

Our ANOs and Cadets get much worried during the enrolment days, especially JD ANOs, because getting medical certificate from a government doctor is not that easy. Sometimes the ANO / or the cadets will have to pay the doctor a fee for the same. But how many of us knew that it was made free by the government in 1999 itself.  Lt. Shameer A.P. NAM College Kallikandy shares that order here.

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Special thanks to Lieutenant Shameer A.P. NAM College Kallikandy, Calicut, Kerala for sharing this valuable order.

Welcome to ANO Blog Team

Dear ANO...

                 The aim of this blog is build a platform for ANOs 

to clear our doubts

share our worries

share our views and ideas

share our memories of training

and what not ?

above all let us be in touch with each other to help each other

You can publicize here what you do in your school/college. Just prepare a report in English or Hindi and send it to blogforano@gmailcom along with relevant photos. 

Have you done something extra as part of your NCC activities ???

Send us photos or videos or news paper reports. Let us present it as a model for other institutions.

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Duities of NCC Officers in Camps

Many officers have been requesting for the DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF OFFICERS IN CAMPS. And here it is. 

Go through it and please comment your suggestions and doubts 

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A short history of efforts to unite the ANOs of India

Dear ANOs,

Following is a short history of efforts to unite the ANOs of India.

While getting ready for my PRCN I had searched the internet and had come across a blog for ANOs run by Lt.D. Muthukumaran from Tamilnadu. It helped me a lot. During my PRCN I found a lot of confusions related to NCC and felt the need to unite the ANOs of India. Thus during the library hours I started a blog named www.associatenccofficer.blogspot.in. 

A blog has its limitations. So after PRCN I started a Facebook group named ANO CONFEDERATION which now has 1500+ ANOs of various states as members.

In August 2015 I understood the limitations of Facebook and created whats app groups for the 28 states of India and renamed the already existing group for Telangana run by Naveen Nagothu. Thus now we have whats app groups for ANOs of all the 29 states and Union Territories. All of them have the same name (name of the state) ANO Association.

In-order to link the states I have started an all India group named ANO CONFEDERATION. It has only carefully selected ANOs from the 29 state wise groups. The idea was to add only active ANOs of all the states so that important discussions and circulars will be shared from the all India group to the state groups easily. While the selected ones from some states are very active some others are inactive. Hope that in the future we will be able to add more active ANOs from all states. English is the medium for communication in the all India group. It is hoped that the admins of state groups will translate important discussions into the state's mother tongue (if necessary).

Other than ANO Confederation there are 3 all India Whats App groups for ANOs (as far as I know).

1. ANO India by Sunil Kadam (20.03.2014) 

2. All India NCC Officers by Lt. D.Muthu Kumaran (23.07.2014)

3. 1-ALL INDIA NCC OFFICERS by Hitendra Kumar Virani (03.06.2015)

 The following are our ultimate aims:

1) To form an association for each state and get it registered (if possible)
2) To support each other and share important information.

(In no way should these groups be used to share non NCC messages or talk against NCC hierarchy)

NB : If you are not yet a part of your state's group please WHAT’S APP your Name and State to the concerned number. (Please do not call unless it is urgent)

Andra Pradesh ANO Association (77022 91911)
Assam ANO Association (99540 13745)
Bihar ANO Association (95467 64986)
Chhattisgarh ANO Association (98274 00622)
Gujarat ANO Association (99255 98980)
Haryana ANO Association (94161 88503)
Himachal Pradesh ANO Association (98820 56505)
Jammu & Kashmir ANO Association (88030 45818)
Jharkhand ANO Association (86511 24767)
Karnataka ANO Association (99008 32648)
Goa ANO Association (9823680453) 
Kerala ANO Association (98477 38356)
Madhya Pradesh ANO Association (74158 99347)
Maharasthra ANO Association (98606 57970)
Nagaland ANO Association (98632 23404)
Odisha ANO Association (94375 18618)
Punjab ANO Association (94783 58295)
Rajasthan ANO Association (82333 12040)
Tamilnadu ANO Association Group 1 (100)
Tamilnadu ANO Association Group 2 (99943 85385)
Telangana ANO Association (98496 65962)
Uttar Pradesh ANO Association (94505 04303)
Uttarakhand ANO Association (95685 25728)
West Bengal ANO Association (98314 88621)
Delhi ANO Association (99536 79856)

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Application to Join ANO Association

The links in the first column will take you to the application form of your state. The second column takes you to the list of ANOs already registered.

State / Union Territory	Details of already registered ANOs
Andaman & Nicobar	Andaman Nicobar
Andra Pradesh	Andra Pradesh
Arunachal Pradesh	Arunachal Pradesh
Assam	Assam
Bihar	Bihar
Chandigarh Chattisgarh	Chandigarh Chattisgarh
Delhi	Delhi
Goa	Goa
Gujarat	Gujarat
Haryana	Haryana
Himachal Pradesh	Himachal Pradesh
Jammu & Kashmir	Jammu & Kashmir
Jharkhand	Jharkhand
Karnataka	Karnataka
Kerala	Association exists since 1982 Registered in 2012
Lakshadweep	Lakhsaweep
Madhya Pradesh	Madhya Pradesh
Maharashtra	Maharashtra
Manipur	Manipur
Meghalaya	Meghalaya
Mizoram	Mizoram
Nagaland	Nagaland
Odisha	Odisha
Punjab	Punjab
Puducherry	Puducherry
Rajasthan	Rajasthan
Sikkim	Sikkim
Tamilnadu	Tamilnadu
Telangana	Telangana
Tripura	Tripura
Uttar Pradesh	Uttar Pradesh
Uttarakhand	Uttarakhand
West Bengal	West Bengal

DG NCC's proposal to increase ANO honorarium and other benefits

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Outfit allowance and Outfit maintenance allowance

Honorarium

Caretaker Allowance

Rank Pay

Welcome to our Facebook group - ANO CONFEDERATION

Dear ANOs,
                   There are around 15500+ ANOs in India. So far we do not have a common forum to share our activities, innovative ideas, doubts and problems. So we have started a Facebook group named ANO FEDERATION.

                  Hearty welcome to all ANOs. To join the group please use this link

 https://www.facebook.com/groups/associatenccofficer/

If you do not have a Facebook account please create one only for this purpose.

NB: There are numerous Whats App groups but as it has a limit of 100 members in a group the reach is limited.

When to apply for Refresher - Please be alert

Lt. D. Daniel Lawrence,

Associate NCC Officer,

Tamil Nadu, India.

Dear ANO’s,

                We both (One ANO from Tamil Nadu & One ANO from Karnataka) have completed the Refresher Course (Part-1) at OTA, Kamptee in the month of Apr.2015.

                One thing I have to share to you all about the refresher course, they said that we came too early to attend the refresher course and also asked us to inform about that earliness.

                My dear ANOs you should apply for the refresher course exactly after four years from the date of commission.

 “(Example: We were commissioned on October 2012, so we all can apply only from January 2017 onwards)”.

                We have worried lot for one week and finally completed the course successfully. In my case one ANO declined, so I have been asked to attend the course in his place. That’s why I went early for the refresher course. So please avoid this type of tension in your future…

NB : The responsibility of this article solely rests on the author and not on the admin

CSD LIMIT ENHANCED w.e.f. 1st JUNE 2015

Dear ANOs,

                    There is a happy news..... The CSD limit has been enhanced. The details can be read from the following image file. Please share it to all other ANOs that you know.

It has also been shared in our Facebook group. (https://www.facebook.com/groups/associatenccofficer/) 

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD

Special Thanks to

K. SANDEEP KUMAR,

THIRD OFFICER,

4(T) AIR SQN NCC, WARANGAL.

Gazetted Officers (India)

This is from www.wikipedia.org

Powers of SD ANOs of the 3 wings as per NCC Act 1948 ( Pages 70, 71 & 72)

Powers of JD ANOs

MANUAL OF RIGHT TO INFORMATION ACT - 2005
PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICERS OF NCC (Page 7)
DIRECTORATE OF

TAMIL NADU, PONDICHERRY AND ANDAMAN NICOBAR

Given below is what Wikipedia says about Junior Commissioned Officers (JCOs) of Indian Army

Enhanced Refreshment Charges and Incidental charges of Telangana state

Dear ANOs,

The refreshment charges and incidental charges of Telangana state has been enhanced. You can download the orders from the links given below.

Refreshment Order - Telangana State

Incidental Charges - Telangana State

K. Sandeep Kumar,

Third Officer,

No. 4(A) Air Sqn NCC, Warangal,

Telangana State

Toll Tax exemption Card

ANO Shiv Kumar Sir made a suggestion in our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/associatenccofficer that 

"The problem regarding toll tax can be resolved by making a toll tax exemption card duly signed by your Commanding Officer with photo because such type of cards are being issued to army persons by their respective Commanding Officers. These cards will never let you down officer."

Here is a sample.

 

 To download the order click this link ANOs Exempted from Highway Toll

NCC Acts and Rules 1948

Have you ever read the NCC Acts and Rules 1948. That is the reference book of an ANO. To more about NCC and to know our rights and duties just go through it. You can download it from the link given below.

DOWNLOAD NCC Acts and Rules 1948

(Blog Admin)
T/O Rajeev Joseph

16 Kerala Bn. Kottayam, Kerala

Need a help to encourage cadets to join Army ?

Here is a Power Point Presentation that will help you to take a wonderful class for the cadets. You can talk to them about the armed forces, in particular Army and motivate them to join it. This is not my work. I collected it from the Internet. I take this opportunity to thank the unknown author of this marvellous presenation.

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NB : Do you want ANO Blog to publish more such presentations or do you wish to publish one by yourself ? Please contact blogforano@gmail.com

(Blog Admin)
T/O Rajeev Joseph

16 Kerala Bn. Kottayam, Kerala

CSD Unit Run Canteen Manual of 2008 (Page 147) which is exclusively for NCC Personnel

While searching the Internet for ANO related orders I came across this part of the CSD Unit Run Canteen Manual of 2008 (Page 147) which is exclusively for NCC Personnel. Hope this would be useful for all

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(Blog Admin)
T/O Rajeev Joseph

16 Kerala Bn. Kottayam, Kerala

Refreshment Rates Enhanced in Telangana State

Dear ANOs of Telangana,

                                         You and your cadets have a good news. ANO Association of Telangana made a representation to the Chief Minister and it was granted. The rates have been increased from Rs. 2 per parade to Rs. 5 per parade.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE ORDER

A Letter to the Secretary - 7th Central Pay Commission

Dear ANOs,

                   Many of us have thought about writing to the government about the poor honorarium and allowances given to ANOs. This post is about what Chief Officer Tarsem Singh of 12 Punjab Bn Hoshiarpur did in this regard. He belongs to KRK DAV SS School Garhdiwala, Punjab.

Dated, the 26th May 2014

From
         Associate NCC Officers,
         National Cadet Corps.
         India.
To
         Shri. Meena Agarwal,
         Secretary to Govt. of India,
         Seventh Central Pay Commission.
         New Delhi.
Sir,
Sub: Constiution of Seventh Central Pay Commission – Demands of
Associate NCC Officers & NCC Cadets – Tabled.

We, on behalf of the Associate NCC Officers (ANOs) and Cadets of the whole nation extend our

NCC AIRWING REFRESHER AND PRCN COURSES (2015-2016) AT 433 AIR FORCE STATION TAMBARAM, CHENNAI

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Thanks to

K. SANDEEP KUMAR

THIRD OFFICER,

NO. 4(AP) AIR SQN NCC, WARANGAL, TELANGANA STATE 506001

9885566742

Kozhikode Group - INSTRS FOR CONDUCT OF MAVLANKAR SHOOTING SELECTION, IUC TSC, NATIONAL GAMES SELECTION AND IUC RDC AND FOR TRG OF GP/DTE TEAMS

    From this post you can download the instructions for the conduct of Mavlankar Shooting Selection, IUC TSC, National Games Selection and IUC RDC and for training of Group or Directorate teams.

Instructions

NCC Group HQ, Kozhikode: Camp Calendar for the Training Year 2015-16

Special thanks to Lieutenant Shameer A.P. NAM College Kallikandy, Calicut, Kerala for sharing this valuable info.

Weekly workload of SD ANOs in Colleges in Kerala - Maximum 4 hours per week

The weekly workload of ANOs has been reduced to a maximum of 4 hours a week. Here is the government order related to it.

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Special thanks to Lieutenant Shameer A.P. NAM College Kallikandy, Calicut, Kerala for sharing this valuable order.

Best ANO Ward - Telangana State

Captain Jaya Sudha Chowdhary of Kasthurba Gandhi Degree and P.G. College Secunderabad receiving the best ANO Award of Telangana State Finance Minister

 Receiving Award form Group commander on NCC Day 2014

Grace marks converted into Grace grade for UG programmes - Calicut University (Kerala)

Dear SD ANOs of Kerala,

                                         After the change from Annual exams to Semester System in Universities there was confusion regarding the gracemarks for NCC cadets. Various universities have formulated their own criteria for the award of grace mark. This post lets you download the order from University of Calicut regarding the award of gracemark of NCC cadets and such other categories.

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Special thanks to Lieutenant Shameer A.P. NAM College Kallikandy, Calicut, Kerala for sharing this valuable order.

National Seminar on India's Internal Security - 21-22 March 2015 at JNV University Jodhpur

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Sir,

    On behalf of JNV University, Jodhpur I welcome you all to a National Seminar on India's Internal Security -Present Challenges and Future Perspectives. Please inform others about the event of seminar.

Warm Regards

Lt. Dr Ashok Kumar

Director,

UGC National Seminar

J.N.V.University,

Jodhpur (Raj)

Kerala ANO Association State Conference 2015

Dear ANOs,

                  The State Conference of Kerala ANO Association will be held at St.Michael's Girls High School, West Hill, Kozhikode from 28 February 2015 to 1 March 2015. Hope all of you will co-operate for the well being of the association and ANOs in general.

NB : Kindly collect the latest ANO Handbook 2015 from the battalion secretaries.

Schedule of PRCN Course at Kamptee - 2014-2015

Schedule of Refresher Course at OTA Kamptee 2014-2015

Canteen facility to ANOs and Cadets - Directorate Letter

        ANOs and cadets of NCC are authorised canteen facility (only grocery) while they are on the strength of NCC vide Army HQ letter No.70846/Q/CAN/Vol - III dt 27 June 1966 as amended and Army HQ letter No. A/66622/111/Q/CAN/ dt 03 April 1973. 

        The canteens of NCC have been established primarily for this purpose as Unit Retail Canteens (URC) and they are not established as ESM Canteen as widely perceived.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE LETTER

DG NCC Lt. Gen. A. Chakravarthy

Latest batch of ANOs from NCC OTA Kamptee (PRCN Sept. to Dec. 2014)

D.G. Baton

Pipping Ceremony

Application for NCC Gracemark

Dear ANOs it is time to apply for gracemark for NCC cadets of Kerala Plus Two / VHSE. The last date is 20 February 2015. The applications should reach the respective battalions via the schools. Direct applications to the NCC Directorate will not be accepted. For more details click here

Attestation Power of ANOs

Recently Kerala ANO Association published a diary for ANOs. It includes various orders including that of attestation power. 

This order belongs to 1960s. If you have other orders or related orders with you please send a copy to blogforano@gmail.com or rajeevjosephkk@gmail.com.

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD - ATTESTATION POWER

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What is the detailed structure of ANO's Uniform in all the three wings ?

Sir,
    I want to know about the detailed structure of ANO's Uniform in all the three wings.
Please help me out.
Regards,
T/O RAMA KRISHNA RAO | adrkrao@rediffmail.com

Associate NCC Officers State Council meeting and send-off meeting on 20th September 2014

Dear ANOs of Kerala and Lakshadeep Directorate,

                   As you may have already come to know the ANOs of Kerala and Lakshadeep Directorate are meeting on the 20th of this September at Baselius College Kottayam. The detailed notice is available for download. Those who have not received the notice may please download it from here.

Year Plan of NCC activities for this academic year

Dear ANO,

                 If you are interested inn sharing your plans for NCC activities this year  you are most welcome to share it here in our blog. Please send it to 

blogforano@gmail.com

You can also publish a report of what you did last year. There are many ANOs who publish such reports and photos in Face Book. It is true that Face Book has a higher reach than a blog like this but the greatest problem with it is our post will get attention just for one or hours. After that it would be difficult even for us to find that post. The permanent solution is a blog like this.

Rank structure and pay scales of army officers

Rank Structure and Pay Scales of Army Officers

Want to join Indian army as an officer and looking for rank structure? Salary of Indian army officers will increase according to their rank. Read on to know about pay scales or pay bands, grade pay and MSP of Indian army officers.

Indian army is one of the best defence forces in this world. Army recruits young men and women as officers frequently. Here is the rank structure along with pay scale/pay band, grade pay and MSP applicable for serving Indian army officers.

Lieutenant rank

Lieutenant rank is the first rank given for the candidates who have successfully completed the prescribed training of Indian army. Pay band or scale of an officer in the rank of Lieutenant is 15600 - 39100 which lies in the pay band 3. Lieutenant gets grade pay of 5400 rupees per month and Military Service Pay or MSP of six thousand rupees per month. Thus if total allowances and pay included an officer working in Indian Army in the rank of Lieutenant gets salary of around 65000 rupees per month.

Captain rank of Indian Army officers

Second rank of Indian Army officers is captain rank. After two years of service as commissioned officer, an officer of Indian Army gets rank of captain. An officer in the rank of captain gets pay band or pay scale of 15600 - 39100 which lies in the pay band 3 of revised pay scale by sixth pay commission. A captain receives 6100 rupees grade pay, 700 rupees more than that of a lieutenant. MSP of a captain is 6000 rupees per month.

Major rank of Indian Army

After captain rank, major rank is given to Army Officers. A major of Indian Army gets pay band or pay scale is 15600 - 39100. Apart from the pay band or pay scale, major receives 6600 rupees per month as grade pay. Also MSP of six thousand rupees per month is admissible for a major. In general an Indian Army officer serving in Major rank gets around one lakh rupees per month.

Lieutenant Colonel rank of Indian Army officers

A major is appointed as a Lieutenant Colonel after promotion. Pay band of Lieutenant Colonel changes to pay band four and pay scale range changes to 37400-67000 rupees. Also an officer in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel gets eight thousand rupees per month and six thousand rupees as MSP pay. All in all an officer of Indian Army in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel gets around two lakh rupees per month as payment.

Colonel rank of Indian Army

A lieutenant colonel is promoted to the rank of Colonel. Colonel of Indian Army gets pay band or pay scale of 37000-67000 rupees. An officer in the rank of colonel gets 8700 rupees grade pay and 6000 rupees as MSP monthly. Thus, a colonel of Indian Army gets two and half lakh rupees to three lakh rupees per month.

Brigadier rank

Brigadier rank is given to the Indian Army officers who are serving in the rank of colonel and considered for further promotion. A brigadier of Indian Army has pay band or pay scale of 37400 - 67000 rupees. Also a brigadier receives 8900 rupees as grade pay and 6000 rupees as MSP monthly. So Indian Army brigadier gets around three and half lakh rupees per month.

Major General rank of Indian Army

A brigadier is promoted as Major General in Indian Army. A major general gets 37400 - 67000 rupees. Also an officer of Indian Army in the rank of Major General gets ten thousand rupees per month as grade pay. A major general of Indian Army gets around four lakh rupees per month.

Lieutenant General rank

Lieutenant General of Indian Army gets pay band or pay scale of 67000 - 79000 rupees.  Lieutenant general of Indian Army does not get any grade pay or MSP. All in all an Indian Army officer working in the rank of Lieutenant General gets around four and half lakh rupees.

General rank of Indian Army

Highest rank of Indian Army is General. General's pay band is fixed at ninety thousand rupees per month. The General of Indian Army gets around more than six to seven lakh rupees per month. Up to Lieutenant General rank, all Indian Army officers gets three percent annual increment in their pay band or pay scale.

Apart from the above mentioned pay band or pay scale, Indian Army officers do get various allowances and facilities which makes officer cadre career of Army as one of the best options to choose.

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• Indian Air Force officer ranks and salaries
• Indian Navy officer ranks and salaries

Army/Navy/Airforce Ranks and Insignia of India

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Life Cycle / Retention Clothing Items of SD/SW and JD/JW cadets of NCC

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Click to Download : Retention Clothing Items

NCC - Know more about the Uniform

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1) Why we wear hackle in Beret ?

              Its not just NCC who wears the hackle but the armies of some Common wealth countries the hackle is worn by some infantry regiments, especially those designated as fusilier regiments and those with Scottish and Northern Irish origins. The colour of the hackle varies from regiment to regiment. In india other than NCC the following Regiments are entitled to wear :

Brigade of the Guards  : Red over yellow
The Grenadiers             : White
Kumaon Regiment        : Green
Mahar Regiment           : Dull cherry
Maratha Light Infantry : Red over green
Naga Regiment             : Orange
Rajput Regiment           : Maroon over red
National Cadet Corps   : Red

2) What is Aiguillette,

             Although there are many stories from history about its origin but in today's world it is decorated to generals and staff officers who are on duty as RDC or delegated (RDC duty is the officer on duty with Governors and similar higher officials) Aiguillette is not a part of NCC uniform but only meant for officers

3) Why we wear dark Green Beret

            The story takes us back to 1941 when there were many badges and different colours of headgears and no standardisation in uniform was crating too many problems in British Army.They decided to adopt an Irish Culture called Tam o' Shanter initially 3 colours were proposed red, yellow and green. Green was chosen as the most suitable.The proposal that the commandos should start wearing green beret as their official headdress was submitted to the Chief of Combined Operations and forwarded by Lord Mountbatten to the Under-Secretary of State for War. Approval was granted and in October 1942 the first green berets were issued to the Royal Marines. As we follow the british culture all the above mentioned regiments wear Green Beret including NCC as they are too part of Infantry.

4) Why the Fourragère is on left side,

           For this too again there are many stories some of them are as follows

1) well the major reason for wearing the Fourragère on left side is to avoid inconvenience while working such as supporting the butt of rifle and while doing drill etc.

2) All those corps and regiments which comes direct in action(Fighting corp) with enemy such as infantry wears it on left and not fighting force such as Artillery etc wears it on Right

        Lanyards is used to secure the sword, Pistol ets and Fourragère are the decoratives of unit or regiment Like NCC Fourragère made of three colour each for tri service....don't confuse between the below three....

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