National Defence Academy

Select Language Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bulgarian Bengali Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch English Estonian Filipino Finnish French Galician Georgian German Greek Gujarati Haitian Creole Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Khmer Korean Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Maltese Marathi Nepali Norwegian Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Serbian Slovak Slovenian Spanish Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh Yiddish

This is a collection of articles archived for the excellence of their content. Additional information may please be sent as messages to the Facebook community, Indpaedia.com. All information used will be gratefully acknowledged in your name.

Languages taught

Urdu/ 2019

September 1, 2019: The Times of India

The National Defence Academy has restarted teaching Army cadets Urdu language in the sixth term.

The language is commonly used in Jammu and Kashmir, where many young officers are posted once they are commissioned into service after completing the one-year advanced military training at the Indian Military Academy in Dehradun.

“Three instructors, including a serving officer, are conducting Urdu classes for the cadets. They would mainly focus on basic aspects of the language. The aim behind this move is to reduce dependence on interpreters once they get posted in conflict zones,” Rear Admiral SK Grewal, the deputy commandant of NDA, told TOI.

The academy had started Urdu classes in the past but had to discontinue them owing to administrative constraints. This time, the academy has hired dedicated staffers to conduct the lectures.