National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

NSS volunteers of IIT Kharagpur participated in the guest lecture on life and teachings of Swami Vivekananda arranged on the eve of National Youth Week. A report on this by NSS volunteers appear here ( Link ). On 14th January, 2012 a colourful procession was brought out by NSS team which covered more than 5 KM around the campus. It inspired the NSS team to have senior faculty members walking with the NSS team in this rally. Slogans like 'Bharat Mata Ki - Jai', 'Swami Vivekananda - Amar Rahe', 'Netaji Subhas - Amar Rahe', 'Mahatma Gandhi - Amar Rahe', 'Rani Laxmibai - Amar Rahe' .... filled the air. That day, one unit of NSS, IIT Kharagpur deputed to the tribal hamlet of village Kuchalachati worked together with the villagers and also sponsored restoration work of three village wells. The local panchayet members and other community leaders were present there and praised young NSS volunteers profusely. NSS team there have identified one very p...

As reported by four NSS, IIT Kharagpur volunteers : Akash Gupta from Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Monica Arya from Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Abhisek Datta and Imbesat Ahmed, both from Dept. of Physics.   On the eve of Swami Vivekananda's birthday, celebrated all over India as the National Youth Day, NSS IIT KHARAGPUR team had an opportunity to listen to and interact with Swami Atmapriyananda, Vice Chancellor, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Belur in a 2 hour session (5:40 – 7:40 PM) at Netaji Auditorium. He told us about the life and teachings of Swami Vivekananda, and how we should approach our own lives to bring out the best in us in the form of character qualities. This is for the development of ourselves as well as for the society. To emphasize on these aspects, we were told about different instances from Swamiji’s and Ramakhrishana Maharaj’s life which reflected the importance of these qualities. Brahmachari Asheshchaitanya from Ramakrishna Mission Holly...

Warm wishes of the New Year! The regular activity of this semester for NSS, IIT Kharagpur volunteers starts tomorrow, the 7th Jan., 2012. Besides regular activities we have several special activities scheduled in this month. We shall participate in National Youth Day evening function where Swami Atmapriyananda, Vice Chancellor, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Belur will be the guest speaker. On 14th Jan. morning, we shall have National Youth Week rally with colourful posters and on 26th Jan. we shall be part of Republic Day function. Besides the second phase of 'Save Water' and 'Save Energy' campaign, one blood donation camp, one public function (all units and village / slum community together) and several workshops are planned in the remaining period of the semester. More as the semester unfolds and opportunities that come to us or we can create for ourselves in a proactive manner. On 31st Dec., 2011 one Program Officer and the Program Coordinator of ...