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In a 1st, Jammu girl to lead NCC cadets parade
The Morning Standard
|January 25, 2025
A girl from Jammu has scripted history by becoming the first J&K native who will lead the All India National Cadet Corps (NCC) girls contingent as parade commander at the Kartavya Path Parade in New Delhi on Republic Day 2025.
Ekta Kumari, a BSc student at Government College for Women Gandhi Nagar in Jammu and hailing from Akhnoor, is leading cadet of 1 J&K Naval for Unit NCC. This is the first instance when a girl from J&K would serve as par
This story is from the January 25, 2025 edition of The Morning Standard.
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