Importance of NSS in college

The full form of NSS is National service scheme. The NSS is at college levels. In some colleges, they made it compulsory to join in NSS. The best colleges of Indore have NSS unit. The wing NSS will train the people how to do services for our nation and created volunteers for various services in the country, such as traffic controls, temple rush controls, etc. They learnt the people about the services which we can render to the society.

NSS comes under the Ministry of Youth affairs and sports. It was launched on Gandhiji’s birth year, 1969 with 37 universities involving in the NSS scheme and over 40000 students involved in this, whose focus is to develop their personality through community service. Now it has more than 3.72 crore of students involved in NSS. Most of the Government and Government-aided Institutions have NSS units. Each unit have 20 – 30 students. The private colleges are encouraged to have NSS units.

In colleges, they will arrange for NSS camps. The government will fund for the NSS camps. The NSS students will stay in the villages for some days and they will render services to the village. The services are, cleaning, creating awareness about the hygienic conditions, create awareness about the literacy and serve the old people of that village. The main benefit is they get adjusted to the village environment. They plays, street shows and dramas to entertain and educate the people of the village. The Village may be rural village or a city suburb.

The objectives of the NSS scheme are:
• The students has to understand themselves their relation to the community
• Identify the needs and problems of the community and involve them
• Developing social and civic responsibility
• Improving leadership quality
• Practice National int