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The National Defence Academy 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 pre-commissioning training in their respective service academies. The NDA is located at Khadakwasla near Pune, Maharashtra. It is the first tri-service academy in the world.

Academy Motto :

The scroll or motto is fashioned on a ribbon at the base of the insignia upon which the sword hilts and the bottom of the anchor stand.

The motto has been inspired and extracted from the Bhagavat Gita:

Karmanevadhikaraste ma phaleshu kadachina
(Your duty is action with no eye on the fruits it will bring)

The ideal ('nishkam karma') was put in the scroll in its English translation as 'Service Before Self'. In the fifties it was decided to do away with an English motto and have a corresponding Sanskrit version,

keeping in line with the Indian culture. So 'Service Before Self' was translated as 'Seva Parmo Dharm'.

Course Curriculum

The NDA offers only a full-time, residential undergraduate programme. Cadets are awarded a Baccalaureate degree (a Bachelor of Arts or a Bachelor of Science after 3 years of study.

Cadets have a choice of two streams of study.


Science Stream
The Science stream offers studies in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics and Computer Science. The Humanities (Liberal Arts) stream offers studies in History, Economics, Political Science, Geography and Languages.

Compulsory Course

In both streams, academic studies are split into three categories.
In the Compulsory Course, cadets study English, Foreign Languages (Arabic, Chinese, French or Russian), Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Computer Science,

History, Political Science, Economics and Geography. Note that all cadets must take basic classes in all these subjects except Foreign Languages. Cadets then take advanced classes depending on their chosen stream.


Foundation Course

The Foundation Course is mandatory and comprises Military Studies and General Studies.

Subjects such as Military History, Military Geography,
Weapons systems and Armaments, etc. are covered in Military Studies.

Subjects such as Geopolitics, Human Rights, Laws of Armed Conflict and Environmental Sciences are covered in General Studies.

The Optional Course focuses on subjects specific to the cadet's chosen Service