The Hindu : Nilgiris to host NCC girls trek

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Sunday, Apr 28, 2002

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Nilgiris to host NCC girls trek

By Our Staff Reporter

Udhagamandalam April 27. The Nilgiris will play host to an All-India NCC Girls Trek conducted by the NCC Group Headquarters,Coimbatore, under the aegis of the Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry, Andaman and Nicobar NCC Directorate. Talking to mediapersons here on Wednesday, the Group Commander Col. M. Ramachandran said about 1,000 senior and junior wing girls (cadets) from Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh would participate in the expedition which would be organised from May 3 in batches.

The trekkers who would be divided into batches of 125 to 150 would cover 90 km and pass through staging camps at Adhigaratty, Chamraj, Yedakkadu, Nanjanad and Udhagamandalam. The base camp would be at the CSI Engineering College, Ketti.

The first batch would be flagged off by the Nilgiris Collector, Supriya Sahu. Educational tours to tea factories, the Radio Astronomy Centre and the Tribal Research Centre and a visit to the Madras Regimental Centre at Wellington would form part of the programme during which a visit by the NCC Director-General, Lt. Gen. B.K. Boppana, was likely.

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