National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

The State Level NSS Advisory Committee Meeting was held on 3rd November, 2011 at Conference Hall of Bikash Bhavan, Salt Lake, Kolkata. This was chaired by Honourable Higher Education Minister of the State, Mr. Bratya Basu. Mr. Satish Kumar Sawhney, Deputy Program Adviser, NSS came from Delhi. Vice Chancellors of various universities like Calcutta University, BESU, West Bengal State University, Sidhu Kanhu Birsa University etc. participated in the discussion. NSS, IIT Kharagpur was represented by the Program Coordinator. Dr. A. N. Dey, State Liaison Officer, West Bengal presented an overall picture of NSS activities in the state of West Bengal and issues to be addressed. Honourable Minister wished to see practical outcome from NSS engagement that goes beyond abstract philosophy. This followed a discussion on how to strengthen NSS activity in the state. Mr. Sawnhney also presented his perspective. Honourable Minister participated in the discussion for more than an hour. There was a bri...

Soladahar is the most underdeveloped village under Gopali Gram Panchayet in the neighbourhood of IIT kharagpur. The complaint from Panchayet was that the village is unorganized and thus no development work can be done there. For example, in last monsoon the Panchayet people were not allowed to conduct any survey in the village who wanted to assess the extent of damage. They were told either you help all or none. On hearing this, NSS, IIT Kharagpur started an effort to organize the village youth and generate confidence in themselves. The village club was revived. Sports materials were donated. Then the village youth took the responsibility of organizing a one day sports meet which was mentored and supported by NSS, IIT Kharagpur. The meet was held on 30.10.2011. The gram Panchayet member was present in the prize distribution and was overwhelmed by the change. After the meet he, NSS official and village youth discussed together future development plan. Vigyan-Vivek members of IIT Kha...