{"id":175889,"date":"2022-03-25T21:09:46","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T15:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=175889"},"modified":"2022-03-25T21:09:46","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T15:39:46","slug":"100-years-of-rimc-making-soldiers-of-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/100-years-of-rimc-making-soldiers-of-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"100 years of RIMC: Making soldiers of steel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC), Dehradun, previously the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, turned 100 years recently.<\/p>\n<h5>About RIMC<\/h5>\n<p>The Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC), is an <strong>Inter Service Category &#8216;A&#8217; establishment,<\/strong> administered through the Army Training Command (ARTRAC) under the aegis of the Ministry of Defence (MoD).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Motto<\/strong>: \u2018Ich Dien\u2019 or \u2018I Serve\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>It was raised as <strong>Imperial Cadet College<\/strong> (Rajwada Camp) on March 13, 1922, with cadets mainly from princely families.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>defining moment in RIMC\u2019s history<\/strong> must be the initiative of General Thimayya and a few other nationalist alumni soon after Independence. They insisted that measures be taken to ensure that RIMC does not remain an elitist school, as it largely was in British times.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> Consequently, Govt assigned at least one seat to every state in the admission process with some of the larger states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and Maharashtra sending two cadets to the school should they meet the admission criteria.<\/p>\n<p>Its <strong>illustrious alumni<\/strong> include a Victoria Cross, independent India\u2019s first Param Vir Chakra, six Indian service chiefs, accomplished generals, admirals, air marshals, bureaucrats and corporate leaders<\/p>\n<p>It fulfils its role as a <strong>feeder institution<\/strong> to NDA, NAVAC (Naval Academy), and also enable Cadets to apply for CME &amp; Technical entry (CTW) and any other schemes from where Cadets can join the Defence Services.<\/p>\n<p>The College provides Public School education to young boys in the age group of 11\u00bd to 18 years, specially selected through an All-India Competitive Examination.<\/p>\n<p>RIMC will <strong>open its gates to girls in a phased manner,<\/strong> with an initial intake of five girls in the autumn term of 2022.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Way forward<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Like every institution, RIMC must also reinvent itself in several areas to keep pace with the demands of the changing character of conflict.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8211;<\/strong> It must develop multidisciplinary expertise to create future hybrid warriors who combine the traditional \u2018guts and glory\u2019 paradigm with intellectual prowess and a technological orientation.<\/p>\n<p>RIMC is a special institution and must be nurtured because it represents an aspirational idea of India as articulated in the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: This post is based on the article \u201c<strong>100 years of RIMC: Making soldiers of steel<\/strong>\u201d published in The <strong>Times of India<\/strong> on<strong> 25th Mar 22<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC), Dehradun, previously the Prince of Wales Royal Indian Military College, turned 100 years recently. About RIMC The Rashtriya Indian Military College (RIMC), is an Inter Service Category &#8216;A&#8217; establishment, administered through the Army Training Command (ARTRAC) under the aegis of the Ministry of Defence (MoD). Motto:&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/100-years-of-rimc-making-soldiers-of-steel\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">100 years of RIMC: Making soldiers of steel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10328,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,9],"tags":[10496],"class_list":["post-175889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-times-of-india","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704781310},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10328"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}