National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

The following pictures give a glimpse of recent activities of two NSS, IIT Kharagpur units in Balarampur, Purba and Paschim Patri villages. In one, science experiments were demonstrated by NSS volunteers in village school. They also conducted school level competitions to encourage talent. In the other unit, besides school level activities, village youth are given ICT awareness, there was a rally and campaign on health issues.

This year we conducted many health camps across different units. Most of them targeted village school students who the NSS volunteers cater to. The largest one was held on 30-3-2013 at Pariapara village. The camp started at 8:30 AM and ended at 3:00 PM. A total of 229 villagers were served. IIT Kharagpur campus community donated unused but usable medicines. Wholesaler in district town Midnapore was approached to meet the rest of the requirement. We worked together with IEEE EMB Society members housed in SMST, IIT Kharagpur and our IIT hospital for this. The following is a visual walk-through, submitted as report by a student lead member, on how they organized the medical camp and its various segments.

[ Blood Donation in Emergency : Registration Form Link ] This is 150th birth anniversary of Vivekananda, the inspiration for all of us. At national level, NSS is carrying out special drive to generate awareness on life and teachings of Vivekananda. We at IIT Kharagpur decided to conduct first an intra-school competition with award giving function at school level. The topic would be from or on Vivekananda's life or message appropriate for age group. The function will also give an opportunity to delve deeper. We have 16 primary school or Sarva Shiksha Kendra (SSK) and 3 high schools in neighbouring villages / slums taken care of by our student volunteers.  We wanted to follow up this with an inter-school competition to be held on April 06, 2013 at Gargi, Maitreyee Halls and Kalidas Auditorium of the institute. We are thankful to IIT Kharagpur administration to provide all facilities as they always do for any such effort taken up by our young students. We are thankful to Dean...