| National Cadet Corps | |
|---|---|
| Founded | c. 1948[ citation needed ] |
| Disbanded | 2002 [1] |
| Country |  Pakistan |
| Type | Paramilitary Youth organisation |
| Part of | National Guard |
The National Cadet Corps (NCC) was a college and school-based programme for providing military-style training to students in Pakistan, under the auspices of the Pakistan Army. It was a component of the National Guard (a reserve force of the Pakistan Army), and was similar to the British Officers' Training Corps and Army Cadet Force.
The Government of Pakistan formed a committee to prepare the groundwork for establishing a National Cadet Corps in 1947. [2] The government confirmed an intention to raise the Corps in September 1950. [3] The aim was to organise college battalions composed of students, with college staff holding officer positions. [3] Initially it operated only in West Pakistan but by 1952 it was being considered for expansion to East Pakistan, and had formed junior and senior sections, although a women’s section was not formed. [4]
By 1960 the intention was for the Corps to have a strength of 20,000 members. [5] A 1960 commission on education, set up by the government, recommended creating an Army-controlled directorate to organise the Corps more effectively. [6] It also recommended separate sections men’s and women’s sections for each of the three military services. [7] Although the 1962 East Pakistan Annual indicated that funding had been made available for a Corps there, [8] it is unclear whether the proposed expansion to East Pakistan was implemented because a national budget for 1964 referred to the "West Pakistan National Cadet Corps Scheme". [9]
It was officially merged into the National Guard when that force was expanded in 1972 in response to the secession of East Pakistan as the independent country of Bangladesh in 1971. [10] The recruitment criteria in 1973 were for male college students and staff in good health, who would be subject to military law while they were part of the Corps. [11] The training included annual military-style camps and one of the benefits of successfully completing the training was preferential treatment for government jobs. [11] By 1977 the Corps was operational in most degree colleges in the country. [12]
The Corps was disbanded in 2002 by President Pervez Musharraf, although the government was reportedly considering restarting it in the aftermath of the 2014 Peshawar school massacre. [13] There were calls for the Corps to be restored at a federal level in 2015, [1] and at provincial level in 2019. [14]
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