National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

This year's 7 day long Annual Camp started on 27-11-2013 in the school compound of Chattisgarh High School. This is situated near the biggest slum in our neighbourhood. The place is called Ayma. Five hundred first year undergraduate students of IIT Kharagpur are attending it. Seventeen faculty members are supervising them. There are tremendous goodwill and cooperation from local community leaders. The prominent among them were present in the inauguration function. All, including local councilors, school headmasters were very appreciative of NSS, IIT Kharagpur and the NSS Unit working in that area in their speech. NSS team thanked them and and look forward to life-building training experience in this one week long camp. Here are some pictures of inauguration and breakfast that followed.

The volunteers of Ayma Village Unit (Unit 10) gives service to students of one Govt. High School for backward community. This has received lots of appreciation from school teachers and guardians. Each section of the school on every Saturday is addressed by NSS volunteers from 2nd period to the end of the school. There is cooperation from all concerned. Our IIT students focus mostly on English, Math, Science.  Last month the unit organized a test to determine the proficiency of the students of the school, from class V to class XII in four components of English - reading, writing, listening and speaking. The analysis of the test results gave the group a very good idea about the way forward, and how they could best help the school children. The month also went into preparation for a cultural program cum academic  competition (elocution, quiz etc.) being arranged by the NSS volunteers in the school premise. The NSS volunteers rehearsed on a skit that they are going...