National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

Cleanliness ( swachhta ) of the localities and public facilities adopted by NSS - IIT Kharagpur has remained one of their key commitments over the past several years.  While all 15 units of NSS - IIT Kharagpur works on cleanliness, a few interesting initiatives related to cleanliness since the last monsoon are shared here.    Unit 10: Unit 13: Every Saturday, the Unit 13 clean up the litters from the Primary School ground and disposes of the garbage. An attempt by Unit 13 to install a garbage bin as to address the issue was not deemed workable by the locals, who figured the bin could be stolen.   The unit also cleans up garbage-clogged nullahs (gullies) of Kashijora.   An awareness drive was launched to request the locals not to dispose garbage in the nullahs.   Although recent survey of the same area shows reappearance of garbage in the nullah, garbage quantity is somewhat less than before.  Unit 8: A survey was...

On 11th October, 2014, the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan started at IIT Kharagpur. The 2nd October, nation wide launch coincided with Autumn Break here. Hence, the first available Extra Academic Day (EAA) after reopening of the institute was selected for the launch. There was a sensitization effort through a series of institute mails prior to this. Besides NSS and NCC, the Civil Works and Sanitary Dept. played an important role in the launch of the Abhiyan. The program started with a short address by Director, IIT Kharagpur where he reminded all the adage, "Cleanliness is next to godliness." He also told that this Abhiyan is more than symbolic and we need to have sustained effort to reach the goal of a 'Swachh Bharat'. In spite of bad weather, there was a huge turnout and everybody was eager to participate in the program. Students came with beautiful posters and banners befitting to the occasion. First, our Director took up the cleaning act by himself and this...