National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

NSS IIT Kharagpur, UNIT 6 works in the village named Gholgharia, about 4 KM from IIT Kharagpur campus. We first present some pictures that gives an overview of the activities from 08-08-2015 to 05-09-2015 and then the weekly report. The activities centered around plantation, cleaning, teaching and survey. The survey statistics presented below in the form of plots is interesting. 08-08-2015 Plantation The plantation team watered the plants and worked cooperatively despite the heat. All the NSS volunteers were fully energized. They were given the task to sow the saplings and water the plants which were planted already. School staff were pleased to see their hard work Cleaning The cleaning team started their work of cleaning the classrooms. The team members began with the class room beside the assembly place followed by the other one and then the store house. It was a tiresome task for them because the classes were somewhat dirty but they worked to...

NSS IIT Kharagpur Unit 7 organized a bicycle distribution at Nachna village, about 6 KM from IIT Kharagpur campus,  on Teacher's Day, Sept. 05, 2015. Twenty bicycles were given to NSS by Patel Hall authorities recently, that have been repaired and were readied for distribution amongst high school students of Nachna, Gangadharpur and Debigeria villages by the NSS team. This was the day when the NSS team started ground work on soya cultivation on a small patch of land adjacent to the Shisu Shiksha Kendra of the Nachna village hoping to achieve a sustained improvement in the nutrition level of school kids. Identification of high school going students from the villages as beneficiaries involved coordination with village community. We worked with village panchayet members, school teachers and village seniors and the whole activity was carried out smoothly with everybody's support. Nachna village has almost 100% Scheduled Tribe population. Each family is to struggle h...

We joined the rest of the IIT Kharagpur community in celebrating Independence Day! Units came with colourful posters and patriotic yell filled the air. Here are few pictures and one video.