National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

National Service Scheme (NSS), IIT Kharagpur welcomes every healthy individual, within the age group of 18 - 60 years and with a body weight of minimum 45 kgs, to come forward and donate blood for Government Blood Banks. With advent of summer the blood banks are now facing a seasonal low. This year's blood donation camp coincides with Good Friday - an auspicious day to donate something for those who are suffering, a day when a great soul gave his life with blessings in his lips. Date : April 06, 2012 (Friday) Time : 10 a.m. onwards Venue : B. C. Roy Tech. Hospital             I.I.T. Kharagpur To register, please click on the 'Registration Link' given below. Pls. complete the form that gets opened and click on the 'Submit' button on that page.                         Registration Link   The information...

Rangametia village unit conducted a survey and found that a large number of villagers, mostly from scheduled tribe and very poor, do not have any caste certificate to get the benefits of the Govt. welfare schemes. The B.D.O. office is about 15 KM away. Besides cost of travel, these daily wage earners misses a day's salary to go there. Also their ignorance on filling-up of forms and providing supporting documents add to the problem. The NSS, IIT Kharagpur unit working there arranged special caste certificate camp in that village with the help of SDO, BDO, Govt. inspectors, Panchayet Pradahan, officials from Panchayet and local community leaders. A training was conducted on 25.2.2012 in presence of Jt. B.D.O. We had overwhelming response on scheduled 18th March camp. The Govt. officials were kind enough to agree to our request and have another camp there on 14.4.2012. They also agreed to have a third camp on 01.4.2012 at another backward community (mostly of Lodha tribe) village na...

Brief report of activities from Talbagicha village unit NSS volunteers and Talbagicha High School jointly celebrated Swami Vivekananda’s 150 th Birth Anniversary through daylong cultural activities on 4 th February 2012, at the Talbagicha High School premises. The celebrations consisted of the following events: 1. Sit and Draw Competition: For two groups of students (“senior group” from classes V-VIII and “junior group” from classes IX-XII). 2. An essay writing competition about the “Relevance of Swami Vivekananda’s Life and Works in the 21 st Century”, for students of classes VIII-XII. 3. A quiz competition, in which students from neighbouring schools also participated. 4. A speech on Swami Vivekananda’s message to the world, by Prof. Joy Sen, Dept. of Architecture and Regional Planning, IIT Kharagpur 5. Prof. Makhanlal Nandagoswami, Dept. of Physics, Midnapore College, presented a slide-show and talk about the cosmological mysteries of the universe in Bengali. 1 st , ...

Report from volunteers of Gholgharia village unit  This semester started with a new resolution and we hope to try to make some meaningful contributions to our village Gholghoria.  We started off with where we left semester, thus reviewing our planted sapling and student’s participation in maintaining it. Because it was a long duration gap (around 1 month), most of the saplings had dried up and on the verge of dying , though some had survived thanks to the efficient watering by the school students and staff. We started our work by proper planning of new fenced covering of some fertilized soil areas for plantation of seasonal flowers and some small plants. Ideas were presented to the school staff, who modified them according to their capabilities and available conditions. Finally it was agreed upon to prepare the new fenced structure in front of the school premises slightly to the corner to facilitate proper watering and efficient maintenance. Seeing the school students enco...

In the second half of the 26th January, 2012 one unit of NSS, IIT Kharagpur and NSS Coordinator was invited in the Annual Sports function of a local High School situated in a slum area, serving mostly the underprivileged. A report, prepared by student group leader on the event, follows. It's a grand event celebrated on the eve of REPUBLIC DAY to see hundred's of children playing. The Chattisgarh high school of  AYMA conducted many exciting events for the student's conducting a two day sports meet. Children's of all age participated enthusiastically bringing out their inner talents and energy. The school on it's first day       (25-01-2012) conducted events like kabaddi, kho-kho etc... for it's higher class children. Many athletic events like long jump, high jump, shot put etc.. are also conducted. The students are filled with joy and happiness to play with their friend's. It's a competition to win and at the same time enjoying the joy of playing. ...

NSS, IIT Kharagpur team participated enthusiastically in the official Republic Day function of IIT Kharagpur on 26th January, 2012. Besides audience management, distribution of food packets to school children attending the function; the volunteers performed a skit on contemporary social issue with an emphasis on what we individual can do to eradicate the evil. This was followed by a soulful song. "Aye Mere Watan ki Logo'. The Republic Day edition of the NSS IIT Kharagpur newsletter was also released during the occasion. This can be found here ( Link ).  Few glimpses of these are presented next. In the second half of the 26th January, 2012 one unit of NSS, IIT Kharagpur and NSS Coordinator participated in Annual Sports function of a local High School situated in a slum area, serving mostly the underprivileged. NSS faculty was invited to be the chief guest for the event, all because of the fact that the unit volunteers could develop a deep bond with the local communi...