National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

NSS, IIT Kharagpur team received an inspiring mail from Sri Subhash Chand, A. P. A., NSS Program Adviser's (P. A.) Cell, New Delhi. He was commenting on our last month's report sent to him. Sri Chand wrote, " Well done...., do convey our appreciation to all the NSS family members (Volunteers and Programmme Officers) at IIT Kharagpur. " Sri P. K. Patanik, Regional Head of NSS in Eastern Zone too appreciated the effort of our young volunteers and encouraged us to go beyond the state. He said that we would get due invitation from Principal Secretary of another state and all expenses would be covered. We take this opportunity to share these messages with the community that supports us, sustains us. We know that we can and we must do much. much more and we shall try our best for the same. NSS, IIT Kharagpur has a very cordial and working relationship with SDO, BDO, Jt. BDO, Gram Panchayet Pradhan besides the people we interact regularly on field. Our NSS team has dev...

As reported by four NSS, IIT Kharagpur volunteers : Akash Gupta from Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Monica Arya from Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Abhisek Datta and Imbesat Ahmed, both from Dept. of Physics.   On the eve of Swami Vivekananda's birthday, celebrated all over India as the National Youth Day, NSS IIT KHARAGPUR team had an opportunity to listen to and interact with Swami Atmapriyananda, Vice Chancellor, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Belur in a 2 hour session (5:40 – 7:40 PM) at Netaji Auditorium. He told us about the life and teachings of Swami Vivekananda, and how we should approach our own lives to bring out the best in us in the form of character qualities. This is for the development of ourselves as well as for the society. To emphasize on these aspects, we were told about different instances from Swamiji’s and Ramakhrishana Maharaj’s life which reflected the importance of these qualities. Brahmachari Asheshchaitanya from Ramakrishna Mission Holly...