National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

Roadwork at Purba Shikarpari (units 9 and 12), Library area of Banpatna (unit 11) and Dakshin Banpatna (units 10, 13, 14 and 15) should have gotten a tremendous boost with the delivery of an additional 6 wheel barrows although the impact was somewhat nullified by an unusual obsession of several units (including unit 1 working at Seva Dal and units 2 and 4 working at Raghunathpur) with street play ( nukkad ) rehearsal. The afternoon session was also extremely productive except for the sad back-to-back losses of NSS cricket team at the hands of the youth's team of Khelar-Banpatna.   The first one of the two 8-over matches was basically a wash out with the loosing team managing a paltry 43 runs and the victors chasing the total at the cost of only 2 wickets with countless overs to spare.  Performance of NSS in the second one was better - only very slightly - despite the valiant wicket keeping by Professor Dibakar Dhara captured in several professional grade photographs ta...

Sholadahar Medical Camp, October 29, 2016   Unit 15 organized a Health Camp on Octiber 29, 2016 at the Shishu Shiksha Kendra, Sholadahar.   Forty-one villagers were treated at the Camp by Doctors Yatinder Bhutania, Kshitij Kumar and Shanmukha – post graduate students of School of Medical Science and Technology (SMST), IIT Kharagpur – and Professor Nishant Chakravorty, also of SMST and Program Officer of Unit 8 of NSS, IIT Kharagpur.   They also dispensed free medicine samples they had and medicines collected by Unit 15 volunteers.   Doctors NK Som and Nitin Gude of BC Roy Technology Hospital of IIT Kharagpur also helped by providing their free Medicine samples for distribution at the camp.   Mrs Shipra Roy – a school teacher and Panchayat Member – actively participated in organizing and conducting the program.   Professors G Saha, DK Swain, Dr RK Rawat and MP Rajak dropped by to encourage the volunteers of Unit 15 and attending physicians.  ...

[This post has 4 videos and 40 pictures to give a visual walk-through of the medical camp. A short report describing our experience is given below.] [ One new video is added at the end as follow up activity of yesterday's medical camp. This is of Smt. Sharma Tudu from Keshiashole village after she gets back her vision on successful completion of operation by visiting Kolkata medical team at Prembazar eye hospital. ] We had an ennobling experience today when Unit 11 of our NSS, IIT Kharagpur team conducted a medical camp on 28-02-2015 at Hiradih Madhyamik Shiksha Kendra (M.S.K.). We saw a conflence of goodwill where besides us, IIT Kharagpur and Prembazar Eye Hospital medical team we had members of Kharagpur Voluntary Blood Donors' Organization (KVBDO) and local community leaders to make the camp successful. A total of 103 residents of Hiradih and adjoining Kesiashole village took medical service from the camp. Local community leaders helped us identifying the needy among ...