Tribune News Service

Dehradun, June 1

As many as 40 cadets of the Army Cadet College (ACC) wing graduated on Friday and were awarded degrees during a ceremony held at the historic Chetwode Hall of the Indian Military Academy (IMA).Of the 40 cadets, 21 are from science stream and the remaining from humanities. The degrees were conferred upon them by Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. The Commandant, IMA, Lt Gen SK Jha, said the ACC had a rich history of training selected personnel from other ranks of all the three services, who had the potential to become officers in the Army. He complimented the Commander, ACC wing, the head of the academic department, and faculty members for their efforts in shaping the cadets into potential officers. He presented the Chief of Army Staff Medals to Cadets Prakram Singh, Gole Kiran and Money Pal Singh for winning gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively. The Commandant’s Silver Medals were presented to Cadets CB Thapa, Money Pal Singh and Manoranjan Kumar Mishra for securing the first position in service subjects, humanities, and science stream, respectively. Earlier, Principal of the ACC wing Naveen Kumar read out the college report highlighting the high standards and commendable academic performance by the cadets.