National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

Cleanliness ( swachhta ) of the localities and public facilities adopted by NSS - IIT Kharagpur has remained one of their key commitments over the past several years.  While all 15 units of NSS - IIT Kharagpur works on cleanliness, a few interesting initiatives related to cleanliness since the last monsoon are shared here.    Unit 10: Unit 13: Every Saturday, the Unit 13 clean up the litters from the Primary School ground and disposes of the garbage. An attempt by Unit 13 to install a garbage bin as to address the issue was not deemed workable by the locals, who figured the bin could be stolen.   The unit also cleans up garbage-clogged nullahs (gullies) of Kashijora.   An awareness drive was launched to request the locals not to dispose garbage in the nullahs.   Although recent survey of the same area shows reappearance of garbage in the nullah, garbage quantity is somewhat less than before.  Unit 8: A survey was...

NSS – IIT Kharagpur organized the Tiranga March on August 20, 2016 to celebrate the 70 th Independence Day.   While 350 other universities with NSS program across India celebrated the event on August 22, 2016, at IIT Kharagpur it took place on a Saturday to stick to Institute schedule.   Focusing on the theme of national integration symbolized by the Indian tricolor – the Tiranga – 1000 IIT Kharagpur volunteers of NSS marched at 15 villages adopted by them.   They carried the National Flag and placards and posters to disseminate the message of national integration.  Here are some images from the Tiranga March of Units 8 and 10:

  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.     ...

Happy Diwali to all from NSS IIT Kharagpur team! IIT Kharagpur is known for illumination and Rangoli in celebration of Diwali. While that is for the love we have for our tradition, this performance by our young 1st and 2nd year UG students in a nearby tribal village in the morning session, shows that we are in love with our neighbours too on this auspicious day! This is one of the village where caste certificates have been facilitated by NSS team. We took this opportunity to discuss with the villagers how they can get benefit out of them and how our team can work with them in this regard. We told ourselves in our group meeting in the village that providing caste-certificates is not enough. At least for the current generation, hand-holding will be required. Once a batch from the village is fully literate, they may be able to do things on their own. Till then we need to remain engaged pro-actively.