NSS Student Volunteer: Any student enrolled as a NSS volunteer, as per NSS Manual should put in at least 240 hours of useful social work in a continuous period of two years (i.e. 120 hours per year). The NSS volunteers wear a NSS badge while undertaking any programme of community service. A work diary, known as Volunteer’s diary, is to be maintained by each NSS volunteer, which will help him/her in the assessment in his/her performance. Such volunteer is eligible to get NSS Service Certificate from the colleges.

One NSS unit consists of 100 student volunteers led by a Programme Officer.

NSS attempts to establish meaningful linkages between

Campus and Community

College and Villages

Knowledge and action .

The students who are volunteering to take part in NSS programme as their Part- IV requirements of the under-graduation courses have to continue for two years and they have to pass the courses NSS 1202 and NSS 2204.

The course NSS1202 is the first year course that aims at the development of personality through community service, caters to meaningful understanding of the interaction of society, and enables the student to know and appreciate the dignity of labour. Students are expected to fulfill the work requirement of 120 hours in the given year by participating in activities such as physical work projects, campus maintenance works, seminars, workshops, scribe and reading services, blood donation, tutorial services and special assignments meeting the social demands. The theory component of the course focuses on aims, objectives, history and scope of NSS and discussion on issues pertaining to health, water harvest, waste land development, safety management, first aid, AIDS awareness, sex education and selected topics of contemporary interest. The course is evaluated by continuous and final assessment at 70:30 ratio basis.

The course NSS 2204 is the second year course that aims at developing the abilities of the volunteers to do a project of social relevance by which the student interacts with the society. It facilitates the students to identify problems and contemporary issues and work to alleviate the same through research skills. This course focuses on activities that will synchronise education with community service, in such a way that it could sharpen the students’ skills of expression. Each student has to obtain 120 hours by participating in out reach projects, conducting and taking part in seminars and workshops, arranging and participating in group discussions, and other service programmes.