National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

The special caste certificate camp to include the most backward in our neighbourhood continued from Rangametia (held on 18.3.2012 : Link ) to another tribal dominated village named Soladahar, comprising mostly of Lodha community, and was held on 01.4.2012 (SUN). The experience of Rangametia camp helped a lot. We were more organized this time. The preparation continued for three weeks. NSS volunteers made people aware, helped them in filling-up forms and finally making them available with original documents before the BDO office staffs on the camp day. The program officer from Rangametia unit helped Soladahar unit a lot and was present there the entire period. While in Rangametia we could arrange collection of 50 forms, the same was 142 here. We have another such camp at Rangametia on 14.4.2012. There was some confusion among villagers of another village who requested NSS team to be there in their village too to arrange such a camp. We are happy to say that we received all sorts of ...

Soladahar is the most underdeveloped village under Gopali Gram Panchayet in the neighbourhood of IIT kharagpur. The complaint from Panchayet was that the village is unorganized and thus no development work can be done there. For example, in last monsoon the Panchayet people were not allowed to conduct any survey in the village who wanted to assess the extent of damage. They were told either you help all or none. On hearing this, NSS, IIT Kharagpur started an effort to organize the village youth and generate confidence in themselves. The village club was revived. Sports materials were donated. Then the village youth took the responsibility of organizing a one day sports meet which was mentored and supported by NSS, IIT Kharagpur. The meet was held on 30.10.2011. The gram Panchayet member was present in the prize distribution and was overwhelmed by the change. After the meet he, NSS official and village youth discussed together future development plan. Vigyan-Vivek members of IIT Kha...