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Mentors & Faculty

An NDA graduate and Special Forces veteran. A former Group Testing Officer with 500+ selections. A Garud Commando drill instructor. Your mentors have walked the path you are about to take.

Major Avinash Sahani (Retd), Director, CSMAFPI Nagpur
Director

Major Avinash Sahani (Retd)

Director · CSM-AFPI, Nagpur
  • Maratha Light Infantry
  • Special Forces, Parachute Regiment
  • Military Free Faller
  • Underwater Combat Diver
  • Graduate, NDA Pune
  • Alumnus, Sainik School Bhubaneswar
  • Motivational speaker
  • Personality development coach

In our culture, education has always mattered, for girls as much as for boys. At this institute it does not stop at the classroom door. It carries on at the playground, on the drill square and in the debates, quizzes and camps that fill the rest of the week.

Good teaching builds discipline, knowledge and self-belief. Every day, we work to make each cadet a little better than the day before, and to raise young people who can take a decision on their own and stand by it, in uniform or out of it.

Good luck. Jai Hind!

The training team

A mentor for every stage of selection

Lt Col Ganesh Babu (Retd), SSB interview mentor
SSB interview mentor · GTO

Lt Col Ganesh Babu (Retd)

30 years in the Army (Corps of Signals). Two tenures as Group Testing Officer at 21 SSB Bhopal and 11 SSB Allahabad, DIPR (DRDO) research on candidate selection, TEDx speaker, 500+ selections. SSB coaching →

JWO Surender Kumar (Retd), drill and training instructor
Drill & training instructor

JWO Surender Kumar (Retd)

Served with the Indian Air Force Special Forces, the Garud Commandos. Leads drill, physical training and obstacle work for day scholars.

Atharva Pandit, Founder Director, CSMAFPI
Founder Director

Atharva Pandit

Founder Director of CSMAFPI. Lokmat and The Hitavada quote him on the institute’s NDA results.

How the team works

Officers at every stage of NDA selection

NDA selection has three hurdles: the UPSC written examination, the five-day SSB interview and the medical. Our team is built around them.

  • Leadership and personal mentoring. Major Avinash Sahani (Retd), an NDA graduate who served with the Maratha Light Infantry and the Parachute Regiment (Special Forces), leads the institute and mentors cadets on discipline, motivation and personality.
  • The SSB interview. Lt Col Ganesh Babu (Retd) served two tenures as a Group Testing Officer, at 21 SSB Bhopal and 11 SSB Allahabad, and researched candidate selection with DIPR (DRDO). He runs our SSB interview coaching: screening, psychology tests, GTO tasks, interview and conference.
  • Drill and fitness. JWO Surender Kumar (Retd), formerly of the Indian Air Force Garud Commandos, takes drill, physical training and obstacle work so cadets meet NDA fitness standards.
  • The written exam and the boards. Subject teachers cover Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics for Class 11 and 12 together with NDA Mathematics and the General Ability Test. See the academics.
  • Direction. Founder Director Atharva Pandit runs the institute, guided by our patrons: AVM Suryakant C. Chafekar (Retd), Maj Gen Achyut S. Deo (Retd) and Brig Suhaas M. Kulkarni (Retd). Read more about CSMAFPI.
Patrons

Our patrons

Senior retired officers who guide the institute’s direction.

Air Vice Marshal Suryakant C. Chafekar (Retd), AVSM, Shaurya Chakra
AVM Suryakant C. Chafekar

(Retd) · AVSM, Shaurya Chakra

Major General Achyut S. Deo (Retd)
Maj Gen Achyut S. Deo

(Retd)

Brigadier Suhaas M. Kulkarni (Retd)
Brig Suhaas M. Kulkarni

(Retd)

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