National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

Kashijora (Unit 13) Moorum roads in Kashijora, the village adopted by Unit 13 suffered damages due to heavy rains and indiscriminate dumping of plastic waste and consequent blocking of natural drainage.   Unit 13 volunteers repaired to the roads in mid September.   They also campaigned among the residents to convince them not to continue with their practice of indiscriminate garbage dumping, a root cause of the road damage. Balarampur (Unit 8) Unit 8 volunteers also undertook road repair at Balarampur on October 1, 2 and 22.   Their work was in the Arashini area of Balarampur.   NSS, IIT Kharagpur thanks Mrs Mita Sutradhar, the local Panchayat Member, and Mr Chandan Chakraborty, the Anchal Pradhan for arranging raw materials for the work and actively managing it.

Here is a glimpse of the month as it was for Kashijora Village Unit (Unit 13) since the academic session began in third week of July at IIT Kharagpur. Besides regular activity of engaging with village primary school students, the unit carried out a drawing competition to encourage talents among village kids, a special on games like Kho-Kho and Kabadi, a colourful awareness rally with posters and slogans where village school kids and young students of IIT Kharagpur walked together. The theme of the rally was health and hygiene. The posters and slogans depicted the importance of administering polio drops, the need for abstaining from intake of alcohol, smoking, consuming tobacco and the issue of prevention of spread of mosquito related diseases by the simple use of a mosquito net. The  dengue  fever and other diseases are prevalent during this monsoon time. The Unit participated in enthusiastically in Independence Day function ( Link ) and had their representation i...