India’s NDC team in capital

BY A STAFF REPORTER

Kathmandu, Sept 18 : A eighteen member team from the National Defence College (NDC), India, is presently on a four day visit to Nepal from September 16 to 19, 2001, a press release issued by the Indian/Embassy said.

National Defense College of India is an apex institution engaged in the study of the higher direction of policy at the national and international level which senior military and civilian officials may be called upon to handle in the course of their careers, the press release said.

The course is attended by senior officers of the Indian Defence Forces and Civil Services as well as Armed Forces of friendly foreign countries. At present, Brigadier General Om Bahadur Pun of the Royal Nepalese Army, is also attending this prestigious course.

As part of their curriculum, the College organisers tours to neighbouring and other foreign countries to enable student officers to interact with their counterparts and to acquaint themselves with the socio-political, economic, defence and foreign policy aspects of the countries they visit, the press release has stated.

With this objective in view, the members of the NDC team will be exchanging views with senior civil and military officials during their current visit to Nepal. The visiting team will pay a courtesy call on Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba, Chief Secretary Tirthaman Shakya, Foreign Secretary Narayan Shamsher Thapa, Defence Secretary Padam Kumar Acharya, Vice Chariman, National Planning Commission Prithvi Raj Ligal, SAARC General Secretary Nihal Rodrigo and also meet Chief of the Army Staff of the Royal Nepalese Army, the press release said.

A similar visit had taken place in 2000. The visiting NDC team is headed by Air Vice Marshal Raghu Ranjan, Senior Directing Staff (Air) of the College. Besides Indian military and civil officers from Bangladesh, Brunei, Oman, Myanmar and Nigeria, according to the press release.

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