National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

Day 5 too continued with the road building work in the first half. Besides other work, we were happy to put the rain water pipe in place and build road over it, which we showed in our earlier post. The highlight of the day was the brainstorming session of the second half on "Unnat Bharat Abhiyan". Director, IIT Kharagpur and senior faculty fro Agriculture & Food Engineering Department and Rural Development Centre of IIT Kharagpur participated in the discussion. A presentation by NSS student volunteers through an innovative slide presentation method, adapted to open space in a rural surrounding was followed by opening remark of our Director and other faculty members. Then suggestion was sought from individual NSS volunteers. Director, IIT Kharagpur in his concluding remark summed up the action items for now. Some of them as noted down are: (i) Collecting all suggestions to start with and then filtering them. (ii) Collecting name and activities of the NGOs who are w...

On 11th October, 2014, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan started at IIT Kharagpur. The 2nd October, nation wide launch coincided with Autumn Break here. Hence, the first available Extra Academic Day (EAA) after reopening of the institute was selected for the launch. There was a sensitization effort through a series of institute mails prior to this. Besides NSS and NCC, the Civil Works and Sanitary Dept. played an important role in the launch of the Abhiyan. The program started with a short address by Director, IIT Kharagpur where he reminded all the adage, "Cleanliness is next to godliness." He also told that this Abhiyan is more than symbolic and we need to have sustained effort to reach the goal of a 'Swachh Bharat'. In spite of bad weather, there was a huge turnout and everybody was eager to participate in the program. Students came with beautiful posters and banners befitting to the occasion. First, our Director took up the cleaning act by himself and this...