Expansion of NCC in 173 coastal and border distrcits: PM Narendra Modi

expansion of National Cadet Corps (NCC) has been ensured in 173 border and coastal districts and nearly one lakh new cadets will get special training under mission, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Saturday.

One-third of one lakh new cadets will be girls, prime minister said in his Independence Day speech "w, expansion of NCC has been ensured in 173 border and coastal districts. Under this mission, one lakh NCC cadets will receive special training. Of this, one-third will be girls," Modi told nation from ramparts of Red Fort.