About NSS
The sole aim of the NSS is to provide hands on experience to young students in delivering community service. The programme aims to instil the idea of social welfare in students, and to provide service to society without bias. NSS volunteers work to ensure that everyone who is needy gets help to enhance their standard of living and lead a life of dignity. By doing so, volunteers learn from villages peoples that how to lead a good life despite inadequate resources. it also provides help in natural and man-made disasters by giving food, clothes and first aid to disaster victims.
The motto of National Service Scheme is NOT ME BUT YOU
The idea of involving students in the task of NSS dates back to the times of Mahatma Gandhi who tried to impress upon his student audience that they should always keep before them their supreme responsibility. The first duty of the students should be to prepare themselves for final dedication to the service of the community on whose back they were resting and not to indulge in intellectual luxury. He advised them to form a living contact and exhorted them to do something positive so that the life of the village might be raised to higher material and moral levels. The scheme has been so effective due to the fact that it is a low investment and high dividend scheme that special emphasis has been laid on NSS in the national policy.
There are two types of programmes under NSS. These are:-
An NSS Volunteer puts at the outset 120 hours of social work in one year for two years i.e 240 hours in two years on different programmes and special camping. After completing 240 hours of regular social campaign, an NSS Volunteer becomes entitles for certificate.
The NSS programmes undertaken either under regular or special camping cover four aspects: