National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

A block of 4 public toilets is under construction for the last few months at Nachna.  While the fund for construction is from Thakurdas Foundation, all stakeholders are working shoulder to shoulder with NSS IIT Kharagpur to see the project through.  The Panchayat is pitching in this endeavor by sinking a bore well to ensure water availability at the toilet block.  The bore well has also been equipped with a submersible pump, a water tank and a water line.  The water tank was donated by IIT Kharagpur.  Other equipment, fittings and fixtures and plumbers are paid for through another eternally funded project.  The locals are donating labor once again without charging the toilet project funds.  NSS volunteers and faculty members from IIT Kharagpur are also donating their time by physically taking part in construction activities.  Regardless, the project is chugging along.  Locals are happy with the progress and are excited to participate in the ...

NSS IIT Kharagpur Unit 7 organized a bicycle distribution at Nachna village, about 6 KM from IIT Kharagpur campus,  on Teacher's Day, Sept. 05, 2015. Twenty bicycles were given to NSS by Patel Hall authorities recently, that have been repaired and were readied for distribution amongst high school students of Nachna, Gangadharpur and Debigeria villages by the NSS team. This was the day when the NSS team started ground work on soya cultivation on a small patch of land adjacent to the Shisu Shiksha Kendra of the Nachna village hoping to achieve a sustained improvement in the nutrition level of school kids. Identification of high school going students from the villages as beneficiaries involved coordination with village community. We worked with village panchayet members, school teachers and village seniors and the whole activity was carried out smoothly with everybody's support. Nachna village has almost 100% Scheduled Tribe population. Each family is to struggle h...