Jammu, Oct 6 (PTI) Nearly 30,000 boys and girls are enrolled in the National Cadet Corps (NCC) in the Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh, a senior officer said on Friday.

Major General R K Sachdeva, the additional director general of the NCC Directorate in J&K and Ladakh, visited a camp for cadets at Nagrota on the outskirts of Jammu.

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NCC cadets from Delhi-NCR, Jammu and Kashmir, and Ladakh attended the "Ek Bharat, Shreshta Bharat" camp.

"About 30,000 NCC cadets are enrolled in J&K and Ladakh directorate and in this year itself, six former cadets have been commissioned as officers of the Indian Army," Major General Sachdeva said.

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He said that 400 NCC cadets have joined as Agniveers and 57 were recruited in the Jammu and Kashmir Police and central armed police forces.

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