National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

Ravinder Singh Guguloth, Group Leader from Rangametia village reports:  I am very happy to be a part of NSS. As a volunteer, it was a great experience for me throughout the NSS course, interacting and understanding the society. In the first year of my course, we were assigned the work of surveying ration card, drinking water facilities. Convincing people was very difficult as they didn’t seem to believe in the government functionary or process. It seemed that there was a wide gap between the people and offices of the government. ( However, exposure with villagers was limited as it was confined to weekly visits. There may be more than what was visible on surface on welfare activities taken up by Govt. offices. )    As a group leader I tried my best to involve, all volunteers in the work every week. Our Program Officer, Saumen Hajra sir’s guidance has been very crucial. In the last semester our group had undertaken the activity of surveying sanitation fac...

·          Weekly teaching on ‘Computer Basics” to the village youths.   ·      Helping the villagers to get cast certificate.   Rakhalgeria Primary School : ·          Conducted many classes but have primarily restricted to Mathematics and English due to the language barrier problem faced by many of them. ·          Conducted many drawing classes in which the students showed keen interest. ·          A drawing competition was conducted involving the students of entire school. Prized were given to five students of each class (total twenty students). ·          Prerana fellowships were handed over to the recipients for Jan, Feb and Mar. Salua Board Primary School : ·        ...