National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

NSS, IIT Kharagpur has received a request from IIT Employees' Union for May Day blood donation. It will be held in Staff Club during 8:00 AM - 2:30 PM as given in the letter. This is the last blood donation camp organized in the campus in this semester; the last opportunity for those who missed out in earlier occasions. The demand for blood increases as the temperature soars. Thus, it is more needed now. NSS team invites the campus community to come forward and make the effort all success.

LITERACY AND NON-FORMAL EDUCATION Continuing with its work in the first semester, the group had a new set of students to engage with this time, given that the previous batch had moved on to a different middle school. So once again, the alphabets had to be gone through thoroughly, followed by certain important things such as the ability to tell time, the importance of attending school, general awareness of one’s surroundings, among other things. Also, students were asked to come up and recite certain pieces aloud, as also make certain drawings. Later on, particular stress was laid on Mathematics, given that the students were generally poor in it. Everything from basic counting to addition, subtraction, multiplication and even division were brushed up, with the concept of times tables introduced to the children. They seemed to take a liking to it. Towards the end, a significant contribution was made to the school by the members of this group – an extensive first aid kit for basic purp...

Inspired by Asha, who serves as a maid in the campus ( Link ) but extends her support to her neighbours in terms of providing new roof, the NSS volunteers of Soladahar Unit (the village comprising of Lodha tribals is the poorest in our neighbourhood) decided to go for asbestos roofing of one house with whatever little fund they have and can save from their tiffin allowance. Today it is done. The journey itself taught us a lot. We took this opportunity to unite and engage local youth for constructive activities. This we have started sometime before when they arranged village sports, Saraswati Puja etc. Also, it involved dismantling of current roof, however dilapidated it might be, completing the task in time, addressing questions like why one particular house is chosen and not the other. Accordingly, the local youth gave us five names. We selected their first choice after physical inspection. It was of Bishwanath Ari, a very bright student of Class V who lost his father. The mother wo...

Thanks to the initiative of Pariapara Village Unit of NSS, IIT Kharagpur a health check-up camp was organized at village primary school on 07.4.2012. Dr. B. Mishra, P.M.O., B C Roy Hospital, IIT Kharagpur (BCRTH) and Prof. P. K. Dutta, Head, School of Medical Science & Technology, IIT Kharapur (SMST) extended their full support. We had Dr. B. Sahoo (BCRTH), Dr. D. Gupta (BCRTH), Dr. Ramakanteswara Rao (SMST), Dr. Vishuumar H. S. (SMST), Dr. Sankar S. (SMST), Dr. Debasish Mirbahar (Eye specialist), Mr. Amitav Dey (Assistant, BCRTH) in the camp serving the villagers. The primary school teachers and local community leaders provided necessary support. Our sincere thanks and warm regards to all. Our initial target was to serve the school children. We had fifty-five of them turning up and availing the facility. The local community leaders requested to extend the service to few elderly people of the village who are very poor and also have mobility problem. We are happy that we could se...

Here are glimpses of the Blood Donation Day. The camp started at 10:15 AM and continued up to 1:30 PM. There were many who donated blood for the first time in their life in this camp. We could capture proud moments of few of them. The doctors and staffs of B C Roy Hospital, IIT Kharagpur helped the Blood Bank team from Sub Division Hospital all possible way. The doctors were very strict on having all qualifying medical parameters met. Thus about ten were unfortunately turned back, that included a senior faculty who arrived before others and had sequence no. 1. On the positive side, we had students who could not qualify last year but was in all smile to be able to become a proud donor this time. We also had mother donating blood with small kid patiently waiting outside. The camp was also a meeting place of old timers. Many ex-NSS students came to camp and we discussed how we are trying to reinvent ourselves. A list of all donors is appended at the end. Our sincere thanks to them to co...