NSS

About NSS

GOAL:


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.

Motto:


The motto of National Service Scheme is NOT ME BUT YOU

CONTEXT:


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. 

THE PRACTICE:


There are two types of programmes under NSS. These are:-

  1. REGULAR ACTIVITIES : Regular Activities under which students undertakes various activities in the adopted villages, college campuses and urban slums during the working periods or after college hours and
  2. SPECIAL CAMPING: Special Camping programmes under which camps of 7 day’s duration are organised in adopted villages or urban slums during vacation with some specific project in hand and with the involvement of the local community.

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.

ASPECTS OF NSS ACTIVITIES:


The NSS programmes undertaken either under regular or special camping cover four aspects:

  1. INSTITUTIONAL WORK:The students may be placed in selected welfare agencies outside the campus to work as volunteers;
  2. INSTITUTIONAL PROJECTS:Improvement of campuses, Plantation 
  3. Cleanliness drive and construction of play fields etc.
  4. RURAL PROJECTS:Eradication of illiteracy, Health, hygiene, Sanitation, saving drives, construction of rural roads etc.
  5. URBAN PROJECTS:Adult education, welfare of slum dwellers, training in civil defence, setting up of first aid posts, hospital work etc.