National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

[ Blood Donation Camp of 16th March, 2013 :  Registration Link  and necessary information in our  previous post . ] Though the mid-sem. exam. is going on, NSS, IIT Kharagpur students and faculty had an window of opportunity to participate in the institute organized “Shashwata Bharat” program in the campus on 23 rd February, 2013 evening. The program was attended by people of our neighbourhood too. Invitations were sent to schools and various organizations. We had a great participation from Tata Bearings family. They came a bus full, chanting hymns. Their children wing performed a nice arati after the garlanding of Vivekananda idol by Prof. Ajit Pal, a senior Professor of IIT Kharagpur. This was followed by traditional tribal dance by students of Balarampur High School . The video of these are available in these links ( Link1 and Link2 ) and also in the video player at the end of this post. Then the Parikrama of “Shashwata Bharat” started in the ca...

National Youth Day is held on birthday of Vivekananda. This year, it was 150th Birth Anniversary of Vivekananda. Besides NSS, other organizations like NCC, TSG, Campus schools came forward to celebrate the event. Campus residents, School children and NCC cadets also participated in rally along with NSS students with colourful posters and slogans. All the processions dissolved into Tagore Open Air Theatre where there was garlanding ceremony of Vivekananda. Director, IIT Kharagpur, Dean, SA and many other dignitaries paid their homage to Vivekananda. A cultural program followed where school students and IIT students participated together. There were song, dance, narration from Vivekananda's speech and letters. The program ended with distribution of a booklet 'Thoughts of Power' which has inspiring quotes of Vivekananda. In the evening, there was again remembrance of Vivekananda. It was held in Netaji Auditorium. Different aspects of his life e.g. his interaction with Ja...

All are welcome in the 12th January rally, morning function at Tagore Open Air Theater (TOAT), evening function at Netaji Auditorium ... Vivekananda's life and teachings, songs loved by him, sung by him, composed on him, all presented by IIT Kharagpur students and our beloved campus school students (D.A.V. Model School and Kendriya Vidyalaya).  Processions start from four different points. NSS from Jnan Ghosh stadium at 8:00 AM, NCC from Gymkhana at 8:00 AM, Schools from respective places at 8:30 AM (NSS student volunteers will assist them), a part of campus community from the Park near Tentultala at 8:30 AM.  All are invited to join morning and evening function, any of the rally as convenient for them, and be part of the celebration which this year coincides with 150th birth anniversary of Vivekananda.

As reported by four NSS, IIT Kharagpur volunteers : Akash Gupta from Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Monica Arya from Dept. of Geology and Geophysics, Abhisek Datta and Imbesat Ahmed, both from Dept. of Physics.   On the eve of Swami Vivekananda's birthday, celebrated all over India as the National Youth Day, NSS IIT KHARAGPUR team had an opportunity to listen to and interact with Swami Atmapriyananda, Vice Chancellor, Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University, Belur in a 2 hour session (5:40 – 7:40 PM) at Netaji Auditorium. He told us about the life and teachings of Swami Vivekananda, and how we should approach our own lives to bring out the best in us in the form of character qualities. This is for the development of ourselves as well as for the society. To emphasize on these aspects, we were told about different instances from Swamiji’s and Ramakhrishana Maharaj’s life which reflected the importance of these qualities. Brahmachari Asheshchaitanya from Ramakrishna Mission Holly...