National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

This is in continuation of previous two posts (Part I  Link  and Part II Link ). In this Part III, we go back to our school based activities where we have arranged about 50 scholarships for students of village / slum schools, conducted various competitions like drawing, sports and distributed prizes etc. In addition, we also provided educational material and furniture for better experience in village school environment.  This is the concluding post of the three part series in welcoming freshers who join IIT Kharagpur in the new academic session. This series shows the range of activities NSS, IIT Kharagpur took up in previous semester.  There are other previously published posts in this blog where certain activities can be found in greater details. We reiterate, w hile NSS team, in some sense, provides the last mile connectivity to our neighbourhood villages and slums, it is the collective goodwill of larger IIT Kharagpur community that get channelized through us....

Paschimpathri, Porapara Village Unit This month, the  Paschimpathri, Porapara village units  continued with their initiative of teaching various subjects like English, Mathematics and Biology to the children in the school. A drawing class was also arranged for the students. They also have done ground work to start a program for basic computer training.  The unit carried on providing handicraft training to the village women. The program is being conducted under the supervision of local women who also provide training to people in other villages, while the raw material is supplied by the NSS volunteers. Pariapara Village Unit The Unit went around on a basic survey about the literacy level and economic situations of the people. They got to know that 80% of children go to school, that sanitation is a major problem, and that most villagers do not have caste certificates. The group has taken great interest in helping the school children w...

The month coming to an end, the report from individual units working at villages and slums have been received by NSS Central team. In spite of this being a mid-semester exam. week, the central team volunteers collated all the reports and sent it to NSS Regional Office at Kolkata, Program Adviser's Cell, Delhi and other officials before the month ends. We would like to continue with this team spirit and make our NSS engagement part and parcel of our life, a responsibility which is no less important even if termed extra-academic. In this and subsequent posts, we present glimpses of reports received from various units. Sonamukhi Village Unit The volunteers were busy actively teaching the students and training them for the Prerana scholarship test scheduled on 6th Oct., 2012. They also organised an essay writing competition for the students and gave them valuable feedback. They have continued with their plantation programme in the school, and have identified and m...

NSS, IIT Kharagpur team received an inspiring mail from Sri Subhash Chand, A. P. A., NSS Program Adviser's (P. A.) Cell, New Delhi. He was commenting on our last month's report sent to him. Sri Chand wrote, " Well done...., do convey our appreciation to all the NSS family members (Volunteers and Programmme Officers) at IIT Kharagpur. " Sri P. K. Patanik, Regional Head of NSS in Eastern Zone too appreciated the effort of our young volunteers and encouraged us to go beyond the state. He said that we would get due invitation from Principal Secretary of another state and all expenses would be covered. We take this opportunity to share these messages with the community that supports us, sustains us. We know that we can and we must do much. much more and we shall try our best for the same. NSS, IIT Kharagpur has a very cordial and working relationship with SDO, BDO, Jt. BDO, Gram Panchayet Pradhan besides the people we interact regularly on field. Our NSS team has dev...