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DEHRADUN: Uttar Pradesh (UP) had the highest number of 72 cadets passing out from the academy as gentlemen cadets (GCs) in the spring 2019 term at Indian Military Academy (IMA) on Saturday,

According to a state-wise data released by the IMA, of the 33 states and union territories, after UP, Bihar has the second highest number of GCs that is 46, followed by Haryana.

In this term, both Uttarakhand and Punjab have 33 GCs while Maharashtra has 28 and Himachal Pradesh has 21 GCs. Among the states which were not represented in the terms were Tripura, Meghalaya, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. States with single digit cadets were West Bengal (5), Odisha (5), Gujarat (4), Telangana (4), Jharkhand (4), Kerala (3), Tamil Nadu (2), Assam (2), Chhattisgarh (2), Manipur (2) and Goa (1).

The spring term had 459 cadets, including 77 from foreign countries. In the foreign nation categories like past years, the highest numbers of cadets were from Afghanistan (45), followed by Bhutan 15. Nine cadets were from Tajikistan while one each from Fiji, Maldives and Tonga.

“The reason for UP, coming on the top is because of sheer size and population, otherwise if you look at the Uttarakhand’s 33 cadets in this term, it is very impressive,” said former Brigadier Govind Singh Sisodia.

