National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

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...

NSS, IIT Kharagpur extends warm welcome to all new students in the campus. We eagerly look forward to work with new batch of NSS volunteers who are joining the NSS team. Here, we report briefly two important events of July, 2012. [Our new hosting for blog posts - Link ] Advisory Committee Meeting NSS activities at IIT Kharagpur is aligned with academic session. We had our Advisory Committee Meeting at Board Room on July 18, 2012 chaired by our Director. We had in the meeting among others, the Regional Head of NSS from Kolkata; Secretary of Midnapur Welfare Society; Dean, Undergraduate Studies; Dean, Student Affairs; Assistant Registrar, Accounts; Coordinator, Extra Academic Activity; NSS student members and Program Officers. Program Coordinator, NSS, IIT Kharagpur presented a visual walk-through of the activities carried out in academic session 2011-2012. Support of institute administration, local administration (S.D.O., B.D.O., Panchayet) and larger IIT Kharagpur community wa...