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...

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.  ...

Water logging around a tube well within the premises of Shishu Shiksha Kendra (SSK) of Sholadahar has been a nuisance over the last few years.   Broken main gate of the SSK was also an eyesore.   Unit 15 volunteers under the leadership of their Program Officer, Professor VR Desai, requested the Vice Chairman Prof S Chakraborty and Mr S Biswas, Executive Engineer (IIT Kharagpur Civil Construction and Maintenance), and Mr A Das (Junior Engineer also of CCM IIT Kharagpur).   Their combined efforts resulted in both the issues related to water logging and broken main gate of Sholadahar SSK was nicely addressed by March 28, 2016.       Tube well at Sholadahar SSK Culvert to fix water logging Repaired main gate