National Service Scheme (NSS) IIT Kharagpur

Seven day long Annual Camp of NSS, IIT Kharagpur started today with 500 campers, mostly from 1st year UG students. The camp site is located at Balarampur High School. We are extremely grateful to help and support being received from school teachers and school mangaement committee, panchayat pradhan of Changual Panchayat under which Balarampur village comes, BDO of Khaargpur-II Block, management committee of Kasturaba Trust premises where kitchen and food distribution for campers are located, local residents specially village youth and IIT Kharagpur administration. Today after a short inauguration, the campers went out for terrain mapping and a quick survey of village and getting an idea of the road-building, road-widening and other jobs they will be undertaking in coming days. Local youth accompanied them and helped them settle in that environment. There is already some presence of NSS in this village through activities of Unit 8 and Unit 10. Post lunch session, the camp

This time we celebrated NSS Day on November 15, 2014 in Kalidas Auditorium, IIT KGP. Due to the mid-semester examination and vacation after mid-sem,  we were not able to celebrate the NSS Day on September 24, 2014. However the program started by a welcome note. The chief guest of the program was our  Dean, Student Affairs, Professor N. R. Mandal. Prof. Mandal has addressed the NSS volunteers and the audience and presented the Prerana Scholarship (mainly funded by ex- NSS volunteers), Chandrasekhar Yadala Memorial Scholarship ( funded by Prof. Jacob Chako and his students and staffs)  and Avik Mahato Memorial Scholarship to the school kids. Cultural program has started after distribution of the scholarships among the recipients. School students from Primary schools and high schools where NSS volunteers are going to teach regularly have performed dances, recitations. At the end of the program, prizes were given to winners of the drawing