Sindhulimadhi, August 6 The Nepali Army has resumed junior division training in Sindhuli to promote good virtues among schoolchildren. Around 108 students studying in grades VIII and IX at Sindhulimadhi-based Bhagawati, Siddhasthali and Gaumati higher secondary schools are being trained at their respective schools for the past five days. Principal at Bhagawati HSS, Krishna Kumar Upreti, said 36 students from his school were being trained. The National Cadet Corps of the Nepali Army has been providing the training to 36 schoolchildren selected from each school from 5:00 pm every work day. According to NCC senior trainer Shrestha, the trainees will receive a total of 100 days of training. “The training is divided in two phases — organisational level training and annual camp training. While the organisational level training lasts for 79 days at the school itself, the annual camp training will be held for 21 days at three different places — Morang’s Yangsila, Nawalparasi’s Hattikhola and Banke’s Kohalpur,” said Shrestha. Another trainer Basnet clarified the objectives of the training, saying it was an attempt to instill discipline and good virtues in selected schoolchildren. “As for the training, it was conceptualised in order to help all-round development of the youths and inculcating in them good attributes such as discipline, patriotism, loyalty and unity,” he said, adding that the students were being given training on various courses, including physical fitness, firing, natural disaster management, and adventurous games. The NCC has been organising a senior camp and a junior camp. “The students are selected the way newly recruits are selected in the Nepali Army,” said Basnet. The NCC, set up in 2022 BS with then prime minister as its chairman, has been organising such training programmes for schoolchildren since its establishment. In the first eight years of its launch, nine senior division batches graduated from the NCC. However, the senior division training had been stalled since 1997 until 2014 because of the then education policy until 2014, after which the training for the division resumed. As per the data with the NCC, 20,938 students of 42 junior divisions and 11 senior divisions have graduated from the training course ever since the training programme started. Nepali Army insignia is conferred on students thus trained. They are sent to different countries like India, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh under youth exchange programmes. Puja Shrestha, a trainee in the ninth grade at the Bhagawati Higher Secondary School, said she was happy to be a part of the training.