The first-ever batch of female cadets at the National Defence Academy graduated in ______.
2025
The National Defence Academy (NDA) at Khadakwasla, Pune, is the tri-services academy where cadets of the Army, Navy and Air Force train together before joining their respective service academies.
For decades NDA admitted only male cadets. In 2021 the Supreme Court, hearing a petition, directed the Union Public Service Commission to allow women to sit for the NDA entrance examination.
Acting on this order, the first-ever batch that included women cadets was inducted into the academy in 2022.
NDA training runs for three years, at the end of which cadets are awarded a degree and pass out. Counting three years from the 2022 induction brings the graduation to 2025.
The pioneering women's batch therefore completed the course and graduated in 2025, making NDA a fully co-educational institution.
The options 2021 (year of the court order), 2022 (year of induction) and 2023 mark earlier milestones, not the graduation of this batch.
Thus, the first-ever batch of female cadets graduated in 2025.
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