National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

Unit 1 started its activity in Sonamukhi slum, not far from IIT Kharagpur campus. A young, dynamic Program Officer has taken charge of the unit this session and the team was on toes right from the start. The strong leadership of the previous program officer extended the reach of the unit in another slum named Telegu Basti. The earlier program officer now assists the program coordinator in central level coordination. In Sonamukhi, the work centres around two primary school - Hindi Bharati and Rishi Panchanan Bengali school. In Telegu Basti, the student volunteers provide their service to Ambedkar school. The Ghagra village unit has continuation of leadership. In earlier sessions, the unit showed some novelty in their approach by publishing one small magazine that housed literary work of tribal students and in tribal language. They also restored village public place of worship besides other regular activities. This month, besides assisting in teaching, arranging drawing competition, t...

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...