NSS

Breif History

  Ever since independence there has been growing awareness of the desirability of involving students in national service. The First Education Commission(1950) recommended the introduction of national service by students on a voluntary basis. Subseqently on the basis of suggestion made by the then Prime Minister Pt.Nehru a committee was appointed under the Chairmanship of Dr.C.D.Deshmukh to prepare a scheme for compulsory national service by students prior to their admission for degree courses. Prof.K.G.Saiyidain who undertook a study of national service by youth in several countries recommended that national service may be introduced on a voluntary basis. A similar recommendation was made by the Education Commission appointed under the Chairmanship of Dr.D.S.Kothari.
  In April, 1967, the Conference of State Education Ministers recommended that at the University stage students could be permitted to join the National Cadet Corps 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). Promissing sportsmen, however, should be exempted from both and allowed to join another scheme called the National Sports Organisation(NSO), in view of the need to give priority to the development of sports and atheletics.
  The conference of Vice-Chancellors in September 1967 welcomed this recommendation and suggested that a special committe of Vice-Chancellors should be set up to examine this question in details. The details were soon worked out and the planning Commission sanctioned an outlay of Rs.5 Crore for developing the NSS during the 4th Five Year Plan as a pilot project in selecte institutions and universities. In pursuance of these recommendations, the ministry of Education introduced the National Service, Scheme during 1969-70. The choice of the timing of its introduced was remarkably suspicious as 1969 was the birth centenary year of Mahatma Gandhi, the father of nation to whom social service was almost a religion.

Aim & Objectives

  Development of the personality of students through community service.

Objectives of NSS

• To work with/among people.
• To engage in creative and constructive social action.
• To enhance his/her knowledge of himself/hereself andthe community.
• To put his/her scholarship to partical use in mitigating at least some of the problems.
• To gain skill in the exercise of democratic leadership.
• To gain skills in programme development to enable him/her for self-employment.
• To bridge the gulf between the educated and the uneducated masses.
• To promote the will to serve the weaker section of the community.