National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

NSS celebrated their Annual Day on April 16, 2016.   As in previous years scholarships, prizes, certificates and medals were given away to students from schools adopted by NSS IIT Kharagpur.   Forty-nine students received the Prerana Scholarship this year, six received the Chandrasekhar Yadala Memorial Annual Prize, three received the Aditya Memorial Scholarship and one received the Avik Memorial Annual Prize.   Regular visitors to this blog may be aware that the Prerana Scholarships are largely paid for by old NSS boys and girls and a few faculty members of IIT Kharagpur.   Chandrasekhar Yadala Memorial Annual Prize is paid for by Prof Jacob Chacko of Mat Sci and his students in the memory of Late Chandrasekhar Yadala who used to be a student of this group.   Aditya Memorial Scholarship has been instituted by Mr Surajit Bhattacharya, an erstwhile resident of Kharagpur, now employed in the IT industry for students of Benapur High School.   Late Avik Mahat...

NSS, IIT Kharagpur Annual Day was held on April 12, 2014 at V2 Auditorium of Vikramshila Complex. This is the time when we bid adieu to our 2nd year student volunteers who complete their 4-semester long service in this program. Emotions run high but that is how it is! Senior batch leaves, new batch joins. We continue to enrich ourselves by our association and humble offerings through this program; that helps us to exercise and assimilate certain important character qualities in us which often go unnoticed in a competitive world and that is for our own good and also for the good of our family, society, nation, humanity as a whole. People from villages / slums for whom we work, participate in this annual day function like every other NSS functions. In this, some of the volunteers are felicitated for their exemplary service and leadership role in the team. The annual day function was graced by Director, IIT Kharagpur. In his short speech he remembered his own NSS Days as student of thi...