Introduction:

The National Service Scheme (NSS) is a  government sector public service programme conducted by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports of the Government of India. The NSS scheme was launched in Gandhiji’s Centenary year in 1969. Aimed at developing students’  personality through community service, NSS is a voluntary association of young people in educational institutions. Later the University Grants Commission, headed by S. Radhakrishnan, officially recommended the introduction of voluntary national service in academic institutions. This idea was again considered by the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) at its meeting in January, 1950; where the board recommended that students and teachers should devote time to voluntary manual work.

The aims of NSS :

The NSS Programme aims to pursue –

1) Instilling the idea of social welfare in students, and to provide service to society without bias.

 2) NSS volunteers work to ensure that everyone who is needy gets help to enhance their standard of living and lead a life of dignity. In doing so, volunteers learn from people in villages how to lead a good life despite a scarcity of resources.

3) It also provides help in natural and man-made disasters by providing food, clothing and first aid to the  victims.

NSS Programme in Indas Mahavidyalaya:

 Indas Mahavidyalaya has been playing a leading and supportive role in conducting the NSS Programme, almost since its inception (The college was established in 2006). This college has kept its NSS Programme activities intact even during the recent pandemic covid situation, and for this, our college administration, as well as our students played a very supportive and positive role. The first NSS UNIT-I and UNIT-II opened at Indas Mahavidyalaya in 2009, and its UNIT-I Programme Officer was Prof. Madhusudan Chakraborty, who was in charge from July 2009 to December 2016. From July 2009 to June 2010 Prof. Sk Id Mohammad was in charge of UNIT-II. Later, from July 2010 to June 2017, Prof. Hafizul Haque served as Program Officer of UNIT-II. Later from 2017 to 2022 the programme officer of UNIT-I was Prof. Sk Id Mohammad and UNIT-II Prof. Atonu Ghar. Subsequently from 2022-23 session, UNIT-I is being handled by Professor Somen Dey and UNIT-II is being by Professor Atanu Ghar.

Throughout the year NSS Programme of Indas Mahavidyalaya conducts – 1) Celebration of NSS Day, 2) Celebration of Yoga Day, 3) Blood Donation Camp, 4) Thalassemia Day awareness etc.