![]() ![]() Only the best must be selected after an aptitude test and training, which is how it’s done to pick officers for the Services Selection Board. This not only condones and encourages the unethical ragging and illegal punishments, but also scuttles the reforms attempted by the system. There is a tendency among the younger officer instructors, themselves ‘groomed’ by the flawed leadership development programme of the NDA, to replicate their own experience with respect to their cadets. The first available, and not the best, Lieutenant General or equivalent is appointed as the Commandant. The executive, administrative and instructional staff in the NDA are selected from the armed forces on the basis of a flawed and inflated appraisal system instead of their aptitude. The defence academy is in desperate need of reforms. The issue is relative as in matters of leadership, ‘good is not good enough’.Īlso read: Narendra Modi govt can’t increase defence budget. ![]() A Commandant of the NDA was removed from his post for alleged corruption. Two years ago, a cadet committed suicide allegedly after ragging. There is a dropout rate of 16-20 per cent annually, primarily due to ragging and use of ‘illegal’ ways to punish cadets in the barracks on the pretext of ‘toughening’ and leadership development. Much earlier in 1975, a senior cadet was lynched to death by his juniors. In 2014, a video of a junior cadet being beaten with a hockey stick went viral. Disturbing reports from the National Defence Academy (NDA) have emerged over the years. ![]()
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