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Guidelines - Degree Courses for Deck Cadets
Key Changes and Requirements
1. Eligibility and Entry Standards — for deck cadet students
Students must have passed HSC / ISC (10+2) with Mathematics, Physics, and Chemistry, with a PCM average of not less than 60%.
- Age limit: 20 years on the date of commencement of training
- Physical standards: As per M.S (Medical Examination for seafarers) Rules 2000
- Eyesight standard: 6/6 in each eye without visual aids, Normal colour vision
2. Course Duration and Intake
The course shall be of not less than three academic years' duration.
The sanctioned number of cadets shall be 40 per class and in multiples of 40 thereafter.
3. Infrastructure Requirements
Institutes must provide physical requirements for classrooms, black/white boards, overhead projectors, screens, notice boards, library, faculty rooms, study environment, teaching equipment, etc. as per DGS Order no: 1 of 2003.
An auditorium or hall capable of accommodating 150 persons @ 1m² per person should be provided, with specific requirements for the stage, screen, flooring, walls, roof, chairs, exhaust fans, and adjoining toilets.
Chartroom facilities, navigation laboratory, seamanship laboratory, carpentry workshop, plumbing workshop, machine workshop, electrical workshop, hotwork workshop, videos/CDs/DVDs, and computer programmes must also be provided as per the guidelines.
- Faculty members: White half-sleeve shirt with epaulettes, white trousers, white belt, white socks, and black shoes. In cold weather, black trousers, black belt, and black socks may be substituted for white. White full-sleeve shirt may be worn after sunset in mosquito-prone areas.
- Cadets: White terycot trousers, black terycot trousers, white terycot shorts, white terycot half-sleeve shirts, white terycot full-sleeve shirts, blue terycot shorts, blue sports shirts (cotton), white sports shirts (cotton), white boiler suits, night suits, swimming trunks, white handkerchief, black shoes, keds, black safety shoes, safety gloves, calculator, geometrical instrument box, exercise books, etc.
Compliance with these guidelines shall be mandatory for all institutes from the academic session of 2004.
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