NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME

Profile

The National Service Scheme (NSS) wing of the University, has involved 71 affiliated colleges along with the University campus, with a total strength of over 16,500 students in NSS. On the whole, there are over 160 NSS Units.

The regular activities of NSS include a number of programs like campus cleaning, tree plantation, blood and eye donations, creation of NSS park, AIDS Awareness, skill development, Women’s Rights, dowry menace, pre-marital counselling, abuse of alcohol and drugs, awareness of Civil Rights, Human Rights and consumer awareness.

The students also undertake cycle expedition to remote villages to highlight social evils like abuse of alcohol, untouchability and stress the need of iodised salt, polio vaccine immunization, small savings, adult literacy. They also visit hospitals, Blind schools, noon meal centres, rehabilitation centres and assist the local staff, by lending their services to white washing, teaching and handing over their collection of clothes and books.

In the special camps, the students stay for ten days and adopt the village, identify themselves with the locals and their problems.

The spontaneous response to Kargil war by the Bharathidasan NSS Volunteers is tremendous. Many students donated blood to help the soldiers. A rally was conducted to arouse the sprit of patriotism to the public. Funds were mobilised by door to door collection and the money was handed over to the District Collector. To remove the sufferings and agony of Orissa flood victims our volunteers collected a sum of Rs.1,50,000 and sent it to the administration as a part of their relief and rescue measure.

The NSS performance of the University has been consistently good receiving appreciation from all concerned. The details for the year 1999-2000 are given below:

Special Camping Programme

1. No. of Units

160

2. No. of Special Camps Conducted

108

3. No. of Volunteers

16557

4. Manual Work (in hours)

357420

5. Awareness Programme

119140

6. Cultural Programmes

178710

7. House visit

119140

Assets Created

No. of

Camps

Numbers

No. of

Volunteers

Beneficiaries

Assets

Rs.

1. Road laying

65

90 kms

3500

20000

70 lakhs

2. Percolation of tanks

25

25

1250

15000

80000

3. Repairing the old buildings

50

40

2500

20000

25000

4. Construction of Community Halls.

20

15

1000

6000

3 lakhs

5. Construction of latrines

35

150

2000

8000

4 lakhs

6. Construction of Libraries

15

20

750

6000

3 lakhs

Awareness Programme

No. of Camps

Beneficiaries

1. Small family norms

50

18000

2. Abolition of dowry

50

20000

3. Eradication of Untouchability

90

5 lakhs

4. AIDS awareness

100

5 lakhs

5. Awareness against Alcoholism

90

400000

6. Awareness on Literacy

95

400000

7. Leadership programme for the youth

45

2250 (students)

8. Formation of Youth Clubs

12

600

9. Formation of women self help group

12

600

Government Welfare Programmes

Beneficiaries

1. Old age Pension

100

2. Widows remarriage

10

3. Getting admissions in the Government Schools for orphan children

25

4. Motivating drop out girl children for readmission

35

5. Bank loans for cattle

600

Medical Camps

Beneficiaries

1. General medical camp

5000

2. Dental camp

1500

3. Eye camp

75000

4. Naturopathy medical camp

2000

5. Veterinary camp

4000

Regular Activities

Inside the Camps

1. Tree planting

110 Units

7500

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2. Campus cleaning

140

1,40,000

2,80,000 hrs.

3. Awareness Programmes

140

140000

280000

4. Blood donation

100

10000

10600

5. Assisting in the College Function

160

16000

32000

Outside the Camps

1. Awareness rally

60 Colleges

12000

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2. Traffic regulation

90

5000

18000 hrs.

3. Hospital visit

50

4500

--

4. Handicapped Institution visit

25

1500

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5. Crowd control during festivals

50

7000

28000 hrs.

6. Tree plantation

50

4000

40000 Sap

7. Blood & Eyes Donation awareness

--

20000

--

8. No. of Eye pairs Collected

30 Pairs

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