National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

A free health check-up camp was organized by NSS Unit-8 at Balarampur on April 1, 2017 for the women and girl students of Balarampur to create awareness on the need for better health facilities for growing teenagers and promote healthy lifestyle in the long run regarding common ailments, nutrition and hygiene and sanitation .   Nearly 90 women were served by 5 doctors.   While checking girls of about 13 years of age, the doctors provided counselling about potential health and hygiene issues.   Students were prescribed appropriate medications for their health issues which included hematinic, antibiotics and anti-helminthic medications. Common issues related to the students identified at the camp were headache, vision problems, stomach-ache, worm infestation, anaemia, dsymenorrhoea and menorrhagia.   Unit 8 volunteers took care of everything; from brining in a number of medical personnel to acquiring the appropriate drugs and making sure the doctors were comforta...

We held several discussions with key members of Social Engineering and Advanced Technological Education (SENATE) on how to impart self-employment training to the needy in our neighbourhood villages. SENATE has conducted various such training in the past ( Link ). The bonding grew stronger when SENATE team attended our Annual Day function held on April 14, 2015 ( Link ), interacted with villagers who attended the function and had a look at range of our activities. Also, their work featured in our Newsletter, Annual Day 2015 issue ( Link ). Come endsem. examination, summer break after this Annual Day event. May-June are the months when our young student volunteers are not here due to summer break. But we had enthusiastic NSS faculty coming forward to arrange a 20 day long training with SENATE's help. It was on tailoring where Unit 4 works. The village was Porapara, about 7 KM from IIT Kharagpur campus. A total of 35 village women attended the training spread over the months Ma...