28 students selected for NDA honoured

Tribune News Service

Mohali, December 5

Army is facing a severe shortage of officers and also there is poor rate of induction of Punjabi youngsters in the armed forces. At this time,  28 students of Shemrock Senior Secondary School, Sector 69, Mohali, have been selected in the NDA. Cdt GS Gosal and Cdt Shashank topped in all India and Cdt Armandeep Singh stood at 138th rank in the all-India merit of the examination. 

While honouring the students Shemrock Principal Prineet Sohal said, “Since its first AFPI course, which passed out in 2013, the school has inducted 110 cadets to the NDA. Out of the 339 NDA seats at the national level, 28 students from Maharaja Ranjit Singh Armed Forces Preparatory Institute and Shemrock School were selected this year.”

While congratulating the boys Major Gen Baljit Singh Grewal (retd), director, Maharaja Ranjit Singh Armed Forces Preparatory Institute for Boys said, “This institute trains boys from Punjab to join defence forces. Thirty six  of our students have cleared the NDA exam.”