National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

Manpreet Chaudhury (Village : Pariapara; Program Officer : Dr. Dilip K. Swain) India being a developing country and during the path to development, wide differences are created between rich and poor. This situation is what calls for national service especially in villages. So, working for welfare of these poor people actually generates a feeling of self satisfaction and so am I involved in these activities through NSS, IIT kharagpur. It provided me a platform to help those who are in indispensable need of it. Being a NSS volunteer, I contributed my best to it. I served my job being in newsletter team in my first year. Continuing my job in second year, this was the time to directly do something for poor people and so I was involved in conducting surveys for caste certificate in my assigned village and helping them to get it. I attended a meeting with BDO which helped a lot in problem solving process. I was part of a play performed by our group on NSS day function. Now, it’s the...

We are proud to find that the community service effort of IIT Kharagpur students, some of them are active NSS volunteers ( Link ), are drawing attention of national media like NDTV, Times of India, The Telegraph, Business Standard, The Hindu Business Line, IBN Live etc. We reproduce some of these articles here. NDTV Report : May 04, 2012  ( Link ) IIT students to organise Educational Yatra Patna:  IITians for youth (IFY), an organisation of students from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, is organising an educational Yatra for students from Bihar to provide quality learning and creating awareness among rural and underprivileged students. The organisation in association with the Bihar Police will be organising this Yatra from May 5 to May 25. During the campaign the students will be given guidance, motivation and will be shown proper approach towards studies. The team will visit Gaya, Aurangabad, Rohtas, and Kaimur, apart from ...

Vinodhini C (Village : Balarampur; Program Officer : Dr. N. D. Pradeep Singh) Initially, in my first year, I taught students of Kindergarten as well as Classes 1 and 2. Since I did not know Bengali, I would try communicating through sign language, drawings and often take the help of my co-volunteers (who knew Bengali). Since the beginning of my second year and after 1 st years were involved (all of whom knew Bengali), I have been involved in teaching Maths and English for the students of Grade 4 mostly because they understand a little bit of Hindi and communication is less difficult. I helped them in learning spoken English, by teaching them to speak a few basic and essential sentences as well as to give their introduction. Along with two other volunteers, I helped the Principal in his preparation for an English exam in which my role was to understand and communicate the meaning of Shakespeare poems to my friends who then translated it in Bengali. We have been organizing ...

The following students were member of NSS, IIT Kharagpur central team. Their term ended in April, 2012 and a new student team has taken over. They were not assigned to any specific village / slum but traveled various units to cover MGNREGA awarness camp in one village to caste certificate camp in other or the 150th birth anniversary of Vivekananda in the third etc. Besides, they published NSS Newsletter, maintained NSS website and participated other central activities. Imbesat Ahmed During my first year as an NSS volunteer , I was in the literacy group of Prof.P.Guha. I taught students of Kendriya Vidyalaya of IIT campus for few days. Then I started a new study center at Congress Office outside IIT campus. I and Ishan also taught children of cleaning staffs of MMM Hall in my room. In my second year, my friend Ishan and I took an initiative of teaching students of class 11 of local schools with the co-ordination Prof.G.Saha. For the purpose we conducted a test and a...

Rohit Saraf (Village : Rangametia; Program Officer : Dr. Saumen Hajra) I am from group A of Prof.  Saumen Hajra Group. This group is purely responsible for teaching senior students in the village Rangametia.  In the 3rd semester when I started as a group leader, I interacted with the 1st years and the 2nd years and we all started to teach the village girls. Initially, the numbers of students were less, but afterwards we managed to increase the number to 8 senior students.  Actually One Saturday I along with Prof.S Hajra visited the village and started finding students. We found 7 to 8 students of class VIII, who assured us that they would come from next Saturday. I taught them English and my friends taught them Maths and Sciences. We made a good contact person in the village, Sri Dukh Ram whom I used to call every Saturday before going to school so that he can open the school. We created a good relation a...

ABHISEK DATTA (Talbagicha Village Unit : Program Officer: Dr. R S Chakraborty) As a NSS volunteer I have taught physics to students of class X at the Talbagicha High School. I had also prepared question sets in physics, chemistry and mathematics, made 25 copies of them each and distributed it among them. In future, I would like to find out poor people and workers like rickshaw pullers and others in our campus and hostels who can’t send their children to school due to economic hardships. I want to arrange for the education of these children in the nearby local schools and I have also organized a fund between some of my friends here to cover the required expenses. I also want to be a part of the group which provides the money for the   PRERANA   scholarships for the students from the village schools. SHABAHAT SHAKEEL     (Ayma Village Unit : Program Officer: Dr. N. D. Pradeep Singh) The venue of my work was Chhattisgarh Hiigh School.  ...