Beginning of New Academic Session

Advisory Committee Meeting of NSS, IIT Kharagpur was held today (08.7.2013), chaired by Prof. S. K. Som, Director, IIT Kharagpur. It was attended by Prof. A. N. Samanta, Dean, UGS, IIT Kharagpur; Prof. N. R. Mandal, Dean, SA,
IIT Kharagpur; Mr. P. K. Patnaik, Youth Officer and Regional Head of NSS; Mr. N. Jana, Secretary, Midnapore Welfare Society and District Coordinator of "Save Child" movement, representatives from NSS faculty members and student volunteers. Annual report and audited account statements of last year was presented. Action plan for coming year was discussed with valuable inputs from advisory committee members.

Mr. P. K. Patnaik, Youth Officer and Regional Head of NSS applauded how we put our work in public domain through website. The annual report of 2012-2013 is shared here (download link or direct link).

The new academic session coincides with a change in leadership at NSS, IIT Kharagpur. Prof. Debasis Roy takes the responsibility of Program Coordinator. He will be assisted by Prof. Abraham George. NSS team welcomes three new program officers, Prof. Ramakrishna Sen (Unit - 12), Prof. Ahindra Nag (Unit - 4) and Prof. Vikranth Rachrela (Unit - 1), in the team.

NSS team thanks Prof. Pradip. K. Bhowmick, Prof. Saumen Hajra, Prof. Goutam Saha for their service to NSS for years. They along with Dr. M. P. Rajak will be associated with NSS as resource persons. Prof. Saha will continue to maintain the NSS blog for some more time.

NSS team welcomes all freshers in the campus. It will be great to work with many of them who will join NSS. Our mandate in NSS is to engage in the nation-building work by reaching out to the underprivileged and serving them. We shall continue with erstwhile 1st year NSS students in their 2nd year too. We count on their experience and expect to do better in the new academic session, together.