National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

Respected Members of IIT Kharagpur Campus Community, NSS, IIT Kharagpur team of student and faculty members cordially invite you with your family and friends in the NSS Day* function scheduled  today   (13-10-2012, SAT ) at Kalidas Auditorium. The program schedule is as follows. 5:00 PM - 5:15 PM : Inauguration 5:15 PM - 5:45 PM : Presentation of unit activities by student leaders (2 minutes to each unit) 5:45 PM - 6:00 PM : Felicitation to PRERANA scholarship winner, Empowering three women group from villages 6:00 PM - 7:15 PM : Cultural program by village community where NSS volunteers work 7:15 PM - 7:25 PM : Skit by NSS volunteers (the winner of inter-unit skit competition on social awareness) 7:25 PM - 7:30 PM : Vote of Thanks Since we have significant participation from village community and we worry about their safe return to villages, we shall avoid extending the function.   Looking forward to your gracious presence which will inspire us all and with warm regar...

Rohit Saraf (Village : Rangametia; Program Officer : Dr. Saumen Hajra) I am from group A of Prof.  Saumen Hajra Group. This group is purely responsible for teaching senior students in the village Rangametia.  In the 3rd semester when I started as a group leader, I interacted with the 1st years and the 2nd years and we all started to teach the village girls. Initially, the numbers of students were less, but afterwards we managed to increase the number to 8 senior students.  Actually One Saturday I along with Prof.S Hajra visited the village and started finding students. We found 7 to 8 students of class VIII, who assured us that they would come from next Saturday. I taught them English and my friends taught them Maths and Sciences. We made a good contact person in the village, Sri Dukh Ram whom I used to call every Saturday before going to school so that he can open the school. We created a good relation a...

Regular Activities The regular activities of NSS, IIT Kharagpur are going on full swing. Work of some of the units have earned so much attention that the community where we could not reach out as yet are putting up requests .... so that our volunteers reach there. Headmaster of one high school affectionately complained yesterday that his school is getting less attention from us compared to another high school in the neighbourhood. We assured him the service of more volunteers. Free coaching centre for underprivileged in a nearby village has become so popular that a section of privileged community from the town requested their wards to be accommodated in that village centre. The other unit's weekly cleaning activity drew the locals to lend hand. Several units have engaged themselves with the village community to come up with cultural performances for NSS Day celebration (due to mid-sem. exam., it is going to be deferred.). There the IIT student volunteers and villagers will enact p...