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ABOUT ORIGIN OF NDA I n 1941,  Lord Linlithgow , then  Viceroy of India  received a gift of £100,000 from a grateful  Sudanese  Government towards building a war memorial in recognition of the sacrifices of Indian troops in the liberation of Sudan in the  East African Campaign  during  World War II . At the end of the war,  Field Marshal   Claude Auchinleck , then Commander-in-Chief of the Indian Army, drawing on experiences of the army during the war, led a committee to study various military academies around the world and submitted a report to the  Government of India  in Dec. 1946. The committee recommended the establishment of a Joint Services Military Academy, with training modelled on the  United States Military Academy  at West Point. [3] After the  independence of India  in Aug. 1947, the Chiefs of Staff Committee immediately implemented the recommendations of the Auchinleck report. The comm...
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NATIONAL DEFENCE ACADEMY

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The National Defence Academy (NDA) is the Joint Services academy of the  Indian Armed Forces , where cadets of the three services, the  Army , the  Navy  and the  Air Force  train together before they go on to respective service academies for further pre-commissioning training. The NDA is located at  Khadakwasla  near  Pune ,  Maharashtra . It is the first tri-service academy in the world. NDA alumni have led and fought in every major conflict in which the Indian Armed Forces has been called to action since the academy was established. The alumni include 3  Param Vir Chakra  recipients and 12  Ashoka Chakra  recipients. National Defence Academy has produced 27 service Chiefs Of Staff till date. Current Chiefs Of Staff of the  Army , the  Navy  and the  Air Force  are all NDA alumni.
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Location: Pune, Maharashtra 411023
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