Community Service Activities of Unit 2

This semester, we saw a resurgent Unit 2. The unit is active in Ayodhyagarh and Salboni villages. While all the nearby villages need attention, these two are among those villages where people face maximum hardship. Besides poverty, water crisis is a major problem to deal with. In an informal meeting at B.D.O. office on May 08, the NSS representatives shared their findings. Here is a visual walk-through of activities undertaken by young student members of NSS, IIT Kharagpur in this semester.

Facilitating repair of village tubewells:

Finally, the water ...

Gift of a wheelchair:

Cloth Distribution:

Book distribution:

Water filter for the village school:

Lending a hand in the construction of extension of village school:

Scholarship (sponsored by alumni) distribution:

Recent activities by two units

The following pictures give a glimpse of recent activities of two NSS, IIT Kharagpur units in Balarampur, Purba and Paschim Patri villages. In one, science experiments were demonstrated by NSS volunteers in village school. They also conducted school level competitions to encourage talent. In the other unit, besides school level activities, village youth are given ICT awareness, there was a rally and campaign on health issues.

Medical Camp

This year we conducted many health camps across different units. Most of them targeted village school students who the NSS volunteers cater to. The largest one was held on 30-3-2013 at Pariapara village. The camp started at 8:30 AM and ended at 3:00 PM. A total of 229 villagers were served. IIT Kharagpur campus community donated unused but usable medicines. Wholesaler in district town Midnapore was approached to meet the rest of the requirement. We worked together with IEEE EMB Society members housed in SMST, IIT Kharagpur and our IIT hospital for this. The following is a visual walk-through, submitted as report by a student lead member, on how they organized the medical camp and its various segments.