National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

 Following photographs give the overviews on the works performed by our young students of Unit 14, NSS IIT Kharagpur during spring 2013-2014. The unit 14 operated in the Ghagra village and Ghagra Primary School. Teaching English by NSS volunteers at Ghagra Primary School Teaching of drawing by IIT students at Ghagra Primary School Reconstructed & repainted temple @ Ghagra village by NSS, IIT Kharagpur Well cleaning at Ghagra Primary School Medical camp at Ghagra village: Blood pressure checking Medical camp at Ghagra village: Health check up  Finally we would like to congratulate all student volunteers of Unit 14 for their dedication to serve the society!

NSS, IIT Kharagpur Annual Day was held on April 12, 2014 at V2 Auditorium of Vikramshila Complex. This is the time when we bid adieu to our 2nd year student volunteers who complete their 4-semester long service in this program. Emotions run high but that is how it is! Senior batch leaves, new batch joins. We continue to enrich ourselves by our association and humble offerings through this program; that helps us to exercise and assimilate certain important character qualities in us which often go unnoticed in a competitive world and that is for our own good and also for the good of our family, society, nation, humanity as a whole. People from villages / slums for whom we work, participate in this annual day function like every other NSS functions. In this, some of the volunteers are felicitated for their exemplary service and leadership role in the team. The annual day function was graced by Director, IIT Kharagpur. In his short speech he remembered his own NSS Days as student of thi...

 Anuraag: Newsletter has been published by NSS, IIT Kharagpur on April 12, 2014. Link for English version of Anuraag: Anuraag: April 2014-English-Version Link for Hindi version of Anuraag: http://www.scribd.com/doc/ 218620552/Anuraag-Newsletter- Apr-12-2014-Hindi-Version

NSS, IIT Kharagpur successfully organized the Annual Blood Donation Camp in association with Kharagpur Blood Donors' Organization on April 5, 2014. The blood bank of NRS Medical College and Hospitals collected around 125 Units blood. Most of the donors were the NSS Volunteers, and faculty members of the institute. The B C Roy Technology Hospitals facilitated the NSS to conduct it smoothly. The PMO, Dr. B Mishra helped our Program officers to contact with KVBDO and Dr. S Dheebar and Dr. A Ghosh and Chief Nurse extended their supports throughout the day. The camp started at 11:00 AM in the morning and continued till 3:30 PM. Eight NSS volunteers from central team and fifteen volunteers from Unit 11 worked together for the mission. Volunteers were taking care of registration desk, providing food packets with beverage to the donors after donating blood. Rest room: Blood donors were resting and taking beverage after blood donation at BCRTH Enthusiastic voluntary donors ea...

                                    "Blood is the fragile scarlet tree we carry within us" National Service Scheme (NSS), IIT Kharagpur is organizing an Annual Blood Donation Camp-2014 on April 5, 2014 (Saturday) 10:45 AM onwards . The blood donation camp will be organized at B C Roy Technology Hospital , IIT Kharagpur, in association with Kharagpur Blood Donors' Organization. We are requesting the interested persons from our IIT Campus community for active participation and donation of the blood.   A few drops of your Blood can help a life to bloom. For pre-registration  click on following  link: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap2IPyX80VyldF9Bd0VYbm0wd0xRdHVWYjVfRHVyY0E&usp=sharing Or mail us: iitkgp.nss@gmail.com    

For most of our team members, it is completely a new world of experience to work on socially relevant projects undertaken by NSS, IIT Kharagpur. We know that our enthusiasm, zeal, desire to put us at the service of the less fortunate need to be supplemented by adequate preparation. Besides planning and execution of the plan, we need to keep in mind the ground reality, social stratification and take the community along with us - not to make them feel that something is thrust upon them. It needs patience, it needs perseverance, a purity of purpose, and a love for the community the way they are - encouraging them for the good practices they follow and working with them on issues where they can do better and where we can contribute humbly. We remember what the word 'Service' of National Service Scheme (NSS) stands for - it is,  kindness put into action. As we are now in preparatory phase of upcoming blood donation camp and many other special activities across units, this po...

NSS, IIT Kharagpur organized a Thalssemia detection camp at Talbagicha High School on March 01, 2014 where experts from Midnapore Medical College and Saptarshi Vivekananda Society ( Link ) came. First, a briefing was done on why this test is needed. Leaflet that explains it with graphics were distributed. To motivate students the name of sportsman like Pete Sampras, Zinedine Zidane were cited who are Thalassemia career but do not face issue for the detection. Country like Cyprus is Thalassemia-free today because it is mandatory to get the detection done before marriage. There was initial inhibition among high school students as blood was to be collected from them for the test. Previous week a sensitization camp was done and guardians were told. An NSS, IIT Kharagpur volunteer, Sri Aynanta Das was the first to offer himself under the needle! And then there was steady flow. NSS Unit faculty, and two teachers of the school also came forward along with other NSS volunteers. The stude...