Defence university in Gurgaon to start classes this year

NOIDA: The Indian National Defence University (INDU), situated in Binola, Gurgaon, will start its first academic session from 2015-16. The University aims to undertake long-term defence and strategic studies and provide military leadership. It will also offer programmes in higher education for defence management.
Lt Gen Rakesh Sharma, adjutant general of the Indian Army, and the official spokeperson, said that the INDU will start the academic session from current year.“The Army offers schooling to around two lakh students in 134 public schools, 200 pre-primary schools. The Army also runs 12 colleges which offer education in management, engineering and law. Four Army-run academic institutions will be constituent to the INDU,” he said at the two-day Indian Army’s Weapons and Equipment Display at Amity University in Noida. The foundation stone of INDU laid down by the then prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh in Binola, Gurgaon in May 2013.
Separately, officials of the Indian Army demonstrated sophisticated weaponry in the show in Noida. Lt Gen Sharma said the Indian Army organizes similar programmes to encourage young generations.