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National Service Scheme (NSS) has been playing a vital role in enriching the souls and minds of the students of the university since long time. The overall objective of this scheme is ā€˜Education and Serviceā€™ to the community and by the community. It is a programme for students to cater to the needs of the community, as and when required. It will also help the students to communicate with the society. The students joining this scheme develop many behavioral interactive skills. They visit the rural areas as NSS volunteers during the camps organized by the concerned colleges or departments of the university. The NSS volunteers take initiative in developing a Technocratic Environment and also help the underprivileged people to develop themselves. The scheme promotes the ability to present them in a better way. Thus the ultimate goal of the scheme is to strive to inculcate the bond of patriotism, national integration, brotherhood, communal harmony among these volunteers. NSS has been active in the University and its collegeā€™s right from the establishment of this scheme. NSS volunteers are regularly organizing camps for Blood Donation, Eye Checkup, General Physical Checkup and Preventive Medicare and Immunizations. They are also actively participating in fight against polio and AIDS and epidemic of Covid-19. During special camps the volunteers engage themselves in physical labor also and help in such activities as ground cleanliness, taking care of cremation grounds, eradicating congress and other vegetables and tree plantation. The NSS volunteers create awareness about social problems like population explosion, pollution, importance of girlā€™s child, evils of dowry system and harmful effects of drinking, drugs and other intoxicants. As the theme of NSS for this year is ā€œYouth for Haryaliā€ special care is being taken for the plantation and protection of planted trees. The University has 4672 NESS Volunteers enrolled for the year 2019-2020 as against the sanctioned strength of 5000 which is largest in Haryana for a University.

Dr. Karan Singh
Programme Coordinator NSS

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History of National Service Scheme

In India, the idea of involving students in the task of national service dates back to the times of Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the nation. The central theme which he tried to impress upon his student audience time and again was that they should always keep before them, their social responsibility. The first duty of the students should be, not to treat their period of study as one of the opportunities for indulgence in intellectual luxury, but for preparing themselves for final dedication in the service of those who provided the sinews of the nation with the national goods & services so essential to society. Advising them to form a living contact with the community in whose midst their institution is located, he suggested that instead of undertaking academic research about economic and social disability, the students should do ā€œsomething positive so that the life of the villagers might be raised to a higher material and moral levelā€.

The post-independence era was marked by an urge for introducing social service for students, both as a measure of educational reform and as a means to improve the quality of educated manpower. The University Grants Commission headed by Dr. Radhakrishnan recommended introduction of national service in the academic institutions on a voluntary basis with a view to developing healthy contacts between the students and teachers on the one hand and establishing a constructive linkage between the campus and the community on the other hand.

The idea was again considered by the Central Advisory Board of Education (CABE) at its meeting held in January, 1950. After examining the various aspects of the matter and in the light of experience of other countries in this field, the Board recommended that students should devote some time to manual work on a voluntary basis and that the teachers should also associate with them in such work. In the draft First Five year Plan adopted by the Government of India in 1952, the need for social and labour service for students for one year was further stressed. Consequent upon this, labour and social service camps, camps work projects, village apprenticeship scheme etc., were put into operation by various educational institutions. In 1958, the then Prime Minister Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru in his letter to the Chief Ministers mooted the idea of having social service as a prerequisite for graduation. He further directed the Ministry of Education to formulate a suitable scheme for introduction of national service into the academic institutions.

In 1959, a draft outline of the scheme was placed before the Education Ministerā€™s Conference. The Conference was unanimous about the urgent need for trying out a workable scheme for national service. In view of the fact that education as it was imparted in schools and colleges, left something to be desired and it was necessary to supplement it with programmes which would arouse interest the social and economic reconstruction of the country. It was viewed that if the objectives of the scheme were to be realized, it was essential to integrate social service with the educational process as early as possible. The Conference suggested the appointment of a committee to work out details of the proposed pilot project. In pursuance of these recommendations, a National Service Committee was appointed under the Chairmanship of Dr. C.D. Deshmuklh on August 28, 1959 to make concrete suggestions in this direction.

The committee recommended that national service for a period of nine months to a year may be made compulsory for all students completing high school education and intending to enroll themselves in a college or a university. The scheme was to include some military training, social service, manual labour and general education. The recommendations of the Committee could not be accepted because of its financial implications and difficulties in implementation.

In 1960, at the instance of the Government of India, Prof. K.G. Saiyidain studied national service by students implemented in several countries of the world and submitted his report under the title ā€œNational Service for the Youthā€ to the Government with a number of recommendations as to what could be done in India to develop a feasible scheme of social service by students. It was also recommended that social service camps should be open to students as well as non-students within the prescribed age group for better inter-relationship.

The Education Commission headed by Dr. D.S. Kothari (1964-66) recommended that students at all stages of education should be associated with some form of social service. This was taken into account by the State Education Minister during their conference in April 1967 and they recommended that at the university stage, students could be permitted to join the National Cadet Corps (NCC) which was already in existence on a voluntary basis and an alternative to this could be offered to them in the form of a new programme called the National Service Scheme (NSS). Promising sportsmen, however, should be exempted from both and allowed to join another scheme calle4d the National Sports Organisation (NSO), in view of the need to give priority to the development of sports and athletics.

The Vice Chancellorsā€™ Conference in September, 1969 welcomed this recommendation and suggested that a special committee of Vice Chancellors could be set up to examine this question in detail. In the statement of national policy on education of the Government of India, it was laid down that work experience and national service should be an integral part of education. In May, 1969, a conference of the studentsā€™ representatives of the universities and institutions of higher learning convened by the Ministry of Education and the University Grants Commission also unanimously declared that national service could be a powerful instrument for national integration. It could be used to introduce urban students to rural life. Projects of permanent value could also be undertaken as a symbol of the contribution of the student community to the progress and upliftment of the nation.

The details were soon worked out and the Planning Commission sanctioned an outlay of Rs. 5 crores for National Service Scheme (NSS) during the Fourth Five Year Plan. It was stipulated that the NSS programme should be started as a pilot project in select institutions and universities.

On September 24, 1969, the then Union Education Minister Dr. V.K.R.V. Rao, launched the NSS programme in 37 universities covering all States and simultaneously requested the Chief Ministers of States for their cooperation and help. It was appropriate that the programme was started during the Gandhi Centenary Year as it was Gandhiji who inspired the Indian youth to participate in the movement for Indian independence and the social uplift of the downtrodden masses of our nation.

The cardinal principle of the programme is that it is organized by the students themselves and both students and teachers through their combined participation in social service, get a sense of involvement in the tasks of national development. Besides, the students, particularly, obtain work experience which might help them to find avenues of self- employment or employment in any organization at the end of their university career.

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Aim and objectives

The aims and objectives of the NSS are:

  • to render service to the community while studying in an educational institution;
  • to arouse the social conscience among students;
  • to provide them with an opportunity to work creatively and constructively with the community around the educational campus; and
  • to put the education they receive to concrete social use; and specifically, (i) to work with and among the people; (ii) to engage in creative and constructive social action; (iii) to enhance knowledge of oneself and the community through a face-to-face with reality; (iv) to use the knowledge gained in the classroom in a practical way for mitigating at least some of the social problems; and (v) to gain skills in programme development to be able to be self-employed. The goals are to achieve improvement in personality, leadership qualities, national outlook and a sense of civic responsibility.

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Goals

  • To enrich the studentā€™s personality and deepen his understanding of the social environment in which he lives
  • To develop an awareness of his responsibility to society
  • To promote a concern for the well being of the community
  • To undertake and participate in the activities designed to tackle social problem and to promote welfare
  • To provide work experience which might lead him to find avenues of employment (as a self-employed person rather than a job seeker on completion to the university career)

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Activities

  • SPECIAL CAMPING PROGRAMME
  • REGULAR ACTIVITIES
  • CLEANLINESS (Swachh Bharat Swasth Bharat)
  • TREE PLANTATION
  • BLOOD DONATION CAMP
  • AIDS AWARENESS
  • HEALTH AWARENESS
  • LECTURES/RALLYS ON FEMALE FOETICIDE
  • NATIONAL INTEGRATION CAMP
  • SPECIAL AWAIRNESS PROGRAMMES ABOUT APIDEMIC OF COVID-19
  • TRAFFIC AWARENESS
  • DISASTER PREPAREDNESS MANAGEMENT
  • PLOGGING EVENTS

Dr. Karan Singh

NSS Program Coordinator

Contact No.: 9882226019

Dr. Bharti

NSS Program Officer

Contact No.: 8901421786

Mr. Sushant Yadav

NSS Program Officer

Contact No.: 9467641881

Dr. Lalit Kumar

NSS Program Officer

Contact No.: 8295509133

Dr. Anita Yadav

NSS Program Officer

Contact No.: 9267480079

Mr. Sandeep Kumar

NSS Clerk

Contact No.: 9992805003