Commandant's Opening Address
Gentlemen,
I have much pleasure in welcoming you to the National Defence Academy.
What I am going to say to you today in this address of mine is not only of interest to you in your first term, or during the rest of your stay in the Academy, but right throughout your service career. And so, this address will be printed in the form of a pamphlet, which will be distributed to each one of you afterwards, and I suggest that you keep it and read it again and again during your stay here, and if I may say so, during your service career afterwards.
History Of NDA
National Defence Academy (NDA) is an Iconic Institution and a global brand of excellence in the sphere of military education. Over the years, it has emerged as a unique military academy, attracting the best of youth from our nation and friendly foreign countries and transforming them into gentlemen officers. During the last seven decades of its glorious existence, National Defence Academy has grown both in grace and grandeur and from its portals have emerged ‘The Leaders of the men’, who have demonstrated the essence of inter-services camaraderie and jointmanship, thereby vindicating the faith and vision of its founding fathers. The alumni have proved to be great mountaineers, cosmonauts, sportsmen, researchers, creative writers, artists and more recently, Olympic champions.