The National Service Scheme (NSS) is an Indian government – sponsored public service program conducted by the Department of Youth affairs and Sports of the Government of India popularly known as NSS, the scheme was launched in Gandhiji’s Centenary year, 1969. Aimed at developing student’s personality through community service, NSS is a voluntary association of young people in Colleges, Universities and at +2 level working for a campus- community linkage. The cardinal principle of the NSS programme is that it is organized by the students themselves, and both students and teachers through their combined participation in community service, get a sense of involment in the tasks of nation building.

SEAGI NSS started in the year 2016 under JNTU Anantapur with the number of 180 student volunteers. It is a team lead by NSS Program Officer, NSS Coordinator, NSS faculty members from all the departments and all NSS Volunteers. The main objective of SEAGI NSS Unit is to understand the community in which they work. Also, Volunteers develop among themselves a sense of social and civic responsibility and capacity to meet emergencies and natural disasters. NSS activities and tasks help in individual to identify the needs and problems of the community and involve them in problem solving.

Functions:

• Making education more relevant to the present situation to meet the felt needs of the community and supplement the education of the university/college students by bringing them face to face with the rural situation
• Providing opportunities to the students to play their role in planning and executing development projects which would not only help in creating durable community assets in rural areas and urban slums but also results in the improvement of quality of life of the economically and socially weaker sections of the community
• Encouraging students and non-students to work together along with the adults in rural areas
• Developing qualities of leadership by discovering the latent potential among the campers, both students as well as local youth (Rural and Urban), with a view to involve them more intimately in the development programme and also to ensure proper maintenance of the assets created during the camps
• Emphasizing dignity of labor and self-help and the need for combining physical work with intellectual pursuits
• Encouraging youth to participate enthusiastically in the process of national development and promote national integration, through corporate living and cooperative action.
• The programme aims to instill the idea of social welfare in students, and to provide service to society without bias.
• NSS volunteers work to ensure that everyone who is needy gets help to enhance their standard of living and lead a life of dignity.

The National Service Scheme (NSS) is an Indian government – sponsored public service program conducted by the Department of Youth affairs and Sports of the Government of India popularly known as NSS, the scheme was launched in Gandhiji’s Centenary year, 1969. Aimed at developing student’s personality through community service, NSS is a voluntary association of young people in Colleges, Universities and at +2 level working for a campus- community linkage. The cardinal principle of the NSS programme is that it is organized by the students themselves, and both students and teachers through their combined participation in community service, get a sense of involment in the tasks of nation building.

NSS Unit Sanctioned Year:  2016 – 2017

NSS Unit Number:  01

No. of Volunteers in Regular Activates: 120

Contact

Name: Mr. D. Bala Subramanyam

Designation: Asst. Professor in Dept. of EEE

Phone:  9491521257

E-mail : [email protected]