National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

  NSS, IIT Kharagpur celebrated the Republic Day on January 26, 2016 by participating in the program organized by IIT Kharagpur at Jnan Ghosh Stadium.  Unit 7 volunteers facilitated the celebration by arranging refreshments for participating school children.   NSS also organized a workshop for the residents of Changual Anchal at Upar Kenthia village in collaboration with St John Ambulance Brigade, Kharagpur.  Dr Moujhuri Nandi elucidated the issues related to cancer to 25 village women and 10 male participants at Upar Kenthia.  NSS wanted to put on the records their appreciation for the help received from Mr Manas Bankura, Teacher-in-charge, Kenthia Prathamik Vidyalaya and Mr Sukumar Roy, Managing Director, KE Technical Textiles, Kharagpur, without which the workshop would not have been possible.  Both Mr Bankura and Mr Roy attended the workshop along with several Program Officers and students of NSS.                                

NSS, IIT Kharagpur conducts a drive every year to collect old but usable clothes that get replaced by new ones during festival time. These are distributed among needy in the neighbourhood villages( Link ). Yesterday, on the auspicious birthday of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, we got an opportunity to collect thirty three old chairs and distribute them in eight village schools. We are thankful to Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy (SRIC) officials of the institute for supporting this. Earlier we had the opportunity to take the support of SRIC in providing muri (puffed rice)-making machine to self-help group of a tribal village and also taking up an agricultural project on crop diversification in another village ( Link ). In this post, we present a visual walk-through of how young NSS volunteers carried out the work starting from loading those chairs in the truck to distribution in the village schools. NSS faculty were there alongside. We had an opportunity to have a bri