NSS Program Officer
What is NSS?
Our institute has a NSS unit which is sanctioned by, Savitribai Phule Pune University with a sanctioned strength of 50 Students. The prime objective of affiliated University is to sanction the NSS unit and provide the financial support for National Service Scheme (NSS) so as to give an extension dimension to the higher education system and orient the student youth to community service while they are studying in educational institution. It helps to understand the problems of community, to take the part in social activities, and interact with society. Every year the NSS camp is organized for the duration of 7 days in rural area, which is monitored by University coordinator. The separate budget is sanctioned by the Institute for the NSS camp and other activities. The NSS coordinator who has got the approval from the University has to submit the detail annual report and Audit report to the University for Continuation of unit.
The NSS unit at our institute is vibrant and the NSS members voluntarily participate in various social activities such as : tree plantation, blood donation, village cleaning , create awareness among the villagers and slum dwellers about digital / online transaction and various government schemes , women empowerment , disaster management, security and safety measures, health and sanitary awareness , cleaning of water reservoir, health checkups , importance of organ donation, educational/vocational guidance and service to afflicted and downtrodden. It is felt that NSS members’ interaction with the common villagers and slum dwellers will expose them to the realities of life and bring about a change in their social perception.
The various camps has very good impact on holistic development of students. Students also reported that there was a really great improvement in there social life. Working in NSS camps have furnished the life of students and they are getting good help during there working culture too. The students have contributed to various social and environmental problems and they have come across that, the strategic theory implemented have benefitted the students as well as the people of the society to a very larger scale. Planting of trees, cleaning of various social place, spreading awareness to people about importance of Environment and its conservation. Students have been also benefited during the street play during their interviews and group discussions and have been getting importance of working in group. Entirely the students have been benefited in its overall development and its impacting there social as well as economical life.
