National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

Roadwork at Purba Shikarpari (units 9 and 12), Library area of Banpatna (unit 11) and Dakshin Banpatna (units 10, 13, 14 and 15) should have gotten a tremendous boost with the delivery of an additional 6 wheel barrows although the impact was somewhat nullified by an unusual obsession of several units (including unit 1 working at Seva Dal and units 2 and 4 working at Raghunathpur) with street play ( nukkad ) rehearsal. The afternoon session was also extremely productive except for the sad back-to-back losses of NSS cricket team at the hands of the youth's team of Khelar-Banpatna.   The first one of the two 8-over matches was basically a wash out with the loosing team managing a paltry 43 runs and the victors chasing the total at the cost of only 2 wickets with countless overs to spare.  Performance of NSS in the second one was better - only very slightly - despite the valiant wicket keeping by Professor Dibakar Dhara captured in several professional grade photographs ta...

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...

Sholadahar Medical Camp, October 29, 2016   Unit 15 organized a Health Camp on Octiber 29, 2016 at the Shishu Shiksha Kendra, Sholadahar.   Forty-one villagers were treated at the Camp by Doctors Yatinder Bhutania, Kshitij Kumar and Shanmukha – post graduate students of School of Medical Science and Technology (SMST), IIT Kharagpur – and Professor Nishant Chakravorty, also of SMST and Program Officer of Unit 8 of NSS, IIT Kharagpur.   They also dispensed free medicine samples they had and medicines collected by Unit 15 volunteers.   Doctors NK Som and Nitin Gude of BC Roy Technology Hospital of IIT Kharagpur also helped by providing their free Medicine samples for distribution at the camp.   Mrs Shipra Roy – a school teacher and Panchayat Member – actively participated in organizing and conducting the program.   Professors G Saha, DK Swain, Dr RK Rawat and MP Rajak dropped by to encourage the volunteers of Unit 15 and attending physicians.  ...