NSS Events Since January 2007

NSS Events Since January 2007

I Jan-Dec 2007

1 Date: 24,25 February

Event: Approximately fifty NSS Program Officers from various colleges of Jhunjhunu and Sikar districts were trained at the Regional Training Workshop of NSS Program Officers organized at BITS Pilani.

2. Date: 10,11 March.

Event: A Blood Donation Camp was organized jointly with Indian Red Cross Society, New Delhi. The occasion was graced by Prof. L.K. Maheshwari, Vice Chancellor, Prof. K.E. Raman, Deputy Director (Administration), Prof. N.V.Muralidhar Rao, Dean SWD, Prof. Ravi Mittal, Dean ARC, Prof. M.K. Kasiramka, PRO, all Program Officers of NSS, Volunteers and many others.

3. Date: 27 July.

4. Event: Rajiv Gandhi National Institute of Youth Development [RGNIYD], Sriperumbudur jointly with NSS BITS Pilani had organized a one-day orientation program on ‘Adolescent Quiz’ for Nodal Officers of NSS at VFAST. More than 30 program officers from the states of Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan and participated and trained in the orientation program. The occasion was graced by Prof. L.K. Maheshwari, Vice Chancellor, Prof. K.E. Raman, Deputy Director (Administration), Prof. N.V.M. Rao, Dean SWD, Program Officers and Student Volunteers.

Date: 15 August

Event: A tree plantation cum tree-protection program was inaugurated by Prof. L.K. Maheshwari, Vice Chancellor, Prof. K.E. Raman Deputy Director (Administration), Prof.G. Raghurama Deputy Director ( Academic ) held to plant around eighty trees in the campus and these trees are monitored by NSS volunteers and the institute gardening staff to help them survive the extreme weather conditions in Pilani.

6. Date: 23 August

Event: Clothes were distributed to the needy people in and around their localities in Pilani by the student volunteers with the cooperation of services provided by the Prof. Rajiv Gupta, Dean (ESD). More than hundred families were given these clothes.

7. Date: 9 September

Event: A one day camp was organized to take care of the trees planted on 15-8-2007.

8. Date: 24 September

Event: Celebrated as NSS Day. The theme of celebration was “NSS and Learning Disability “. A newsletter was published to spread the awareness about Learning Disability among campus community in addition to the other topics like Rain Water Harvesting, Organic Farming - conserving soil; water and biodiversity based on traditional and modern eco-friendly techniques.

9. Date: 2 October

Event: Gandhi Jayanti Celebrations was inaugurated by Prof. N.V.M Rao, Dean (Student Welfare Division) in the NSS School run by the student volunteers by conducting the drawing, poem writing, story writing & play competition. Prof. B.R.Natarajan Dean (Distance Learning Program Divison) was the guest of honor. Prizes and sweets were also distributed to the children.

10. Date: 16 to 19 October.

Event: NSS volunteers put up a stall during OASIS to promote the items prepared by rural artisans and NGO’s. The stall was inaugurated by Prof. L.K. Maheshwari, Vice Chancellor. Prof. N.V.M Rao, Dean (Student Welfare Division) along with the chief warden Prof. S.K. Verma were also present to motivate the students.

11. Date: 27 November

Event: Under the National Integration Week celebration Dr. Umesh Dhyani conducted an interactive session on National Integration with the students and the staff and clearly elaborated its importance in the present times, to safe guard the national interests in the fast changing world scenario. Prof. K.E. Raman Deputy Director (Administration) and Prof.. N.V.M Rao Dean (Student Welfare Division)distributed the certificates to the students who worked very hard for the NSS stall during OASIS 2007 in the campus. In the end National Integration Pledge was read by all present in the function.

II Jan-Dec 2008

1. Date: 6,7 April

Event: A blood donation camp was organized by National Service Scheme (NSS) at BITS- Pilani in collaboration with the Indian Red Cross Society, New Delhi. It was inaugurated by the Honorary Vice Chancellor of BITS -Pilani, Prof. L.K. Maheshwari at the Students Activity Centre. The Deputy Director, Prof. G. Raghurama and the Dean of Students Welfare Division, Prof. N. V. M. Rao and other faculty members were also present on the occasion. The students and faculty donated 715 (seven hundred and fifteen) units of blood during the camp. The total number of units donated had exceeded the units donated in the blood camps any of the educational institutions in the country.

2. Date: 13 April

Event: Workshop on Right To Information ( RTI ) Act. Sh.Santosh Jha and Sh.Sushil Kausik from Parivartan New Delhi came as resource persons. The workshop was inaugurated by Prof. K.E Raman, Deputy Director, BITS Pilani and highlighted that BITS education system has been very transparent, open and meritorious and provides all required information to the different stake-holders at different stages of their educational process. The workshop was attended by staff and students. Prof. N.V.M. Rao, Dean, SWD, Vimal Bhanot, NSS Co-ordinator & all Program officers also attended the workshop. The resource persons enlightened the audience about the main theme of RTI Act passed by our government in 2005 under which any Indian individual can ask for the details of the expenditure of public money spent by any department under the Government of India from the Public Information Officer ( PIO ) of that department under the state government in writing.

3. Date: 14 April

Event: Medical Check-up and Health Awareness camp in village Morwa (9 km from BITS Pilani campus) was inaugurated by Prof. K.E Raman, Deputy Director, BITS Pilani. He thanked the village people for giving this opportunity to our students to come face to face with the realities at the grass root level so that in their later lives, while working as planners or executors of the government public welfare schemes, they can take the right decisions for the welfare of society. Jhunjhnu district medical officer provided a part of necessary medicines required in the camp and assured his full support. Morwa village Sarpanch Sh.Ramu Singh Sangwan and his team extended active support at all levels. More than 200 (two hundred) people took advantage of the camp.

4. Date: 26 April

Event: Inaugural function of Solar Electrification project and Computer Centre at Govt. School, Raila. This day was a memorable day in the history of BITS as well as for the people of the Raila Village. It was the inaugural function of the solar electrification project and the computer centre in the Raila village. Majority of students and teachers of the school and a large number of villagers had participated in the function. To generate funds for this, the NSS team organized a Food Festival in BITS-Pilani on 8^th October, 2006. The total cost of the project was approx. Rs. 2.5 lacs. Prof. L K Maheshwari highlighted on the various initiatives that BITS has taken since 2001 by taking up specific projects for the development of this village such as Rain water Harvesting and Desert Development program.

5. Date: 1 May

Event: Shri. Ashok.K.Kawalia, Assistant Program Advisor from Regional NSS office Jaipur along with Shri.Komal Singh met Prof. L.K.Maheshwari, Vice Chancellor BITS Pilani. Prof. Maheshwari suggested to hold a workshop in collaboration with NSS under the guidance of Prof.Rajiv Gupta for the Sarpanches of the surrounding villages to make them aware about the looming water crisis in the region. Prof.N.V.M.Rao, Dean ( SWD ) and Prof. Vimal Bhanot NSS Coordinator were also present. Mr.Rajat Bansal President NSS BITS Pilani presented the NSS activities from August 2007 to April 2008. Special mention was made by him on the Solar Electrification Unit for the smooth functioning of computers which were installed at Govt. school of Raila village.

6. Date: 15 August.

Event: A tree plantation cum tree protection drive was inaugurated by Prof. L. K. Maheshwari, Vice chancellor, BITS-Pilani in the presence of institute officials and the student volunteers. Around 40 trees of different genre were planted.

7. Date: 23,24 August.

Event: The clothes collected by the NSS volunteers were distributed to the needy people in the Baansgaon.

8. Date: 28 September.

Event: Raila health Camp. Medical Check-up and Health Awareness camp in village Raila (5 km from BITS Pilani campus) was inaugurated by Prof. L. K. Maheshwari , Vice chancellor , BITS-Pilani. Around 140 villagers came for the check-up and were assured further consultation, if required. Out of 140 patients 106 were below 40 years of age.

9. Date: 2 October

Event: Gandhi Jayanti Celebrations in school was inaugurated by Prof. N.V.M. Rao, Dean SWD. The student volunteers and the faculty helped in organizing drawing , poem writing, story writing and play competition. Prof. Meenakshi Raman was guest of honor. Prizes and sweets were distributed among the children.

10. Date: 17,19 October.

Event: Under the Green Project another tree plantation drive was done in the campus in which more than 20 trees were planted in the green belt of the institute.

11. Date: 20 to 24 October.

Event: NSS volunteers put up a stall during OASIS 2008-the cultural fest of BITS-Pilani to promote the articles prepared by rural artisans and self-help groups and woman employment groups and the NGO’s. The stall was inaugurated by Prof.L.K Maheshwari Vice Chancellor BITS Pilani in the presence of institute officers and student volunteers and gave a call for the conservation of natural resources.

III Jan-Dec 2009

1. An association of BITS Pilani ( Staff, students and alumnus ) named UMANG was opened with account in SBB&J Pilani ( A/C No. 61070179069 ) which aims at educating the needy people in and around BITS campus. Membership fee of a minimum of one rupee per person per month shall be collected from the interested BITS students for the activities of the association.

2. Date: 26 January.

Event: On Republic Day, Sh.Dharmendra Kumar, who is leading the Bihar Chapter of AID delivered a talk on topic: Empowerment of youth for transformation at grass root level. In the afternoon Prof.G Raghurama flagged off a cycle rally to village Bans Gaon on the theme: “Politics means learn to govern oneself.”

3. Date: 8 February

Event: NSS volunteers along with other staff and students attended the talk delivered on social entrepreneurship by Sh. V K Desai ( BE ( Mech.), LLB ) who shared his experience of developing devices based on solar energy, wind energy, steam engine for production by masses, not the mass scale production for benefiting few.

4. Date: 5,6 March.

Event: Prof. Vimal Bhanot NSS Coordinator attended a 2 day workshop for establishing a community radio station organized by RGNIYD, Sriperumbudur.

5. Date: 21 to 23 May.

Event: Prof. Vimal Bhanot NSS Coordinator visited the TINYTECH PLANTS & AADHUNIC GLOBAL ENERGY UNITS RUN BY SH. V. K. DESAI at Rajkot (Gujarat).

6. Date: 21,22 February

Event: 28^th Blood Donation camp was inaugurated by Prof. L.K.Maheshwari Vice Chancellor of BITS Pilani on 21 Feb. 2009. A team of 16 members from Indian Red Cross Society, New Delhi headed by Dr. Vijay Vats conducted the Blood Donation Camp. A total of five hundred twenty (520) units of blood was voluntary donated by staff and students of BITS Pilani.

7. Date: 19-4-2009

Event: A farewell function was organized. Mrs. Abha Mittal was the chief guest and Prof.N V M Rao Dean (SWD) presided over the function. NSS student volunteers, Program Coordinator and Program Officers were also present in this function.

8. Date: 15 August.

Event: Independence day celebration function was attended by NSS student volunteers, Program Coordinator and Program Officers.

9. Date: 20 August.

Event: Tree plantation to celebrate Rajiv Gandhi Akshay Urja Diwas. Prof. R.K.Mittal Deputy Director (Administration) was the chief guest. Twenty Neem and Gulmohar trees were planted in the open space around Vyas and Shankar Bhawan.

10. Date: 23 August.

Event: The theme of BITS Marathon 2009 organized was to sensitize the community to Save Water and Save Electricity. Prof.G Raghurama Deputy Director (Academic) and Mrs. Raghurama inaugurated the marathon and participated in it.

11. Date: 13 September

Event: NSS BITS Pilani organized a health camp in Panchayat Bhawan of Jherli village with the cooperation of NSS State And Central Office,Jaipur, Sarpanch Shri. Satveer Singh and all villagers. Prof. G. Raghurama, Deputy Director(Academics) inaugurated the camp in the presence of Prof. N.V.Muralidhar Rao, Dr. R.P.Pareek, Dr. Jasraj. Prof. R.K. Mittal , Deputy Director ( Administration ) also joined the occasion along with his wife and talked to the NSS Student Coordinators and encouraged them to continue with such activities with more zeal and enthusiasm.

12. Date: 1 October

Event: BITS Pilani was awarded by the Indian Red Cross Society New Delhi for having provided the maximum number of Voluntary Blood Donors (in the Blood Donation Camp organized by NSS BITS Pilani on 21-22 Feb 2009) amongst Educational Institutions for the year 2009.Prof. N V M Rao Dean, Student Welfare Division and Prof. Vimal Bhanot Coordinator represented BITS Pilani and received the honor from Dr. Salim J. Habayeb, World Health Organization’s India Representative.

13. Date: 2 October

Event: NSS School children were encouraged to participate in skit, drawing, poem recitation, essay writing, dance and group singing events. Prof. R.K.Mittal, Deputy Director (Administration ) was the chief guest and distributed the prizes to the children. Prof. N V M Rao Dean, Student Welfare Division was also present to encourage the participants and also distributed the prizes.

14. Date: 27 to 31 October.

Event: During OASIS 2009, NSS volunteers organized a stall to display the handmade items prepared by the village artisans. Prof.G Raghurama Deputy Director (Academics) inaugurated the stall. To encourage the use of solar energy a parabolic solar cooker which can prepare food for 4-5 people in about thirty minutes was also displayed.

15. Date: 26 Nov.

Event: A farewell function was organized. Mrs. Gayatri Maheshwari was the chief guest and guest of honor was Mrs. Abha Mittal. Certificates and mementoes were given to the outgoing batch students and present NSS Volunteers for contributions in one or more NSS activities.

IV Events In 2010 (Till 31^st March)

1. Date: 22 January

Event: NSS organized a talk on the topic “Knowledge Based Growth” by Brig.P.Ganesham (Former Director of Bharat Dynamics Ltd., Coordinator of Honeybee in Andhra Pradesh, Editor of Palle Srujana). NSS Faculty Coordinator Prof. Vimal Bhanot, NSS Program Officers and approximately 50 BITS students attended the interactive talk.

2. Date: 30, 31 January

Event: NSS in collaboration with Indian Red Cross Society, New Delhi organized the 29^th Blood Donation Camp in BITS Campus. Due to efforts by NSS volunteers and valuable participation by BITS students, this blood donation camp could break many previous records and witness the highest ever turn-up for any Blood Donation Camp in BITS Pilani and the second highest ever donation by any Educational Institute with a count of 841 units. This blood donation camp has been placed just behind our own record of 868 units of blood in the year 2003.

3. Date: 27 February

Event: The clothes collected by the NSS volunteers previously were distributed to the needy people in the Baansgaon (nearby Pilani)

4. Date: 28 February

Event: ‘Holi Milan’ on the eve of Holi was organized with blessings from Prof. N.V.Muralidhar Rao, Dean SWD, Prof. Vimal Bhanot, NSS Coordinator ad Program Officers in NSS School. Children supported by the NSS School presented a cultural program with ‘Holi’ as the theme.

5. Date: 7 March

Event: NSS organized health camp in Garinda (11kms from Pilani) under the guidance of Physician Dr. R.P.Pareek, Medical Superintendent of Medical Centre and Gynecologist Dr. Sanjana Bhat. Prof. R.K.Mittal, Deputy Director (Administration) inaugurated the camp. Prof. N.V.Muralidhar Rao, Dean SWD, Prof. Vimal Bhanot,NSS Coordinator and NSS Program officers graced the occasion with their presence. A total of 159 people from the village were treated in the camp.

Project Umang : List of Volunteers.

Following is the list of volunteers who represent their respective hostels in the Project Umang committee:

Vyas Bhavan

1. Vikas Kumar VY 309
2. Mrigank Gupta VY 301
3. Sonit Tayal VY 306

Shankar Bhavan

1. Roshan Rathi VY 410
2. Suhas Karanth SK 163
3. Karan Dadure SK 171

Vishwakarma Bhavan

1. Arpit Sapra VK 301
2. Vishvmitra Belsare VK 309

Krishna Bhavan

1. Anand Gadiya KR 310
2. Ashvin Agarwal RP 240

Gandhi Bhavan

1. Kunal Sapra GN 318
2. Debabrata Ghosh GN 264
3. Anish Kumar GN 309

Ram Bhavan

1. Nishank Varshney RM 307
2. Rohit Pamnani RM 309

Budh Bhavan

1. Prakriti Kumar RM 301
2. Achal Gupta RM 303
3. Shrirang Deshpande SK 272

Ashok & RP Bhavan

4. Himanshu Ahuja RP 243
5. Rohit Garg RP 212
6. Anshul Gupta RP 213

Malviya Bhavan

1. Shauvik Agrawal RP 205
2. Saurabh Singhal RP 220
3. Nitin Khandelwal RP 217
4. Ishan D Munje VY 310

Meera Bhavan

1. Sahila Agarwal
2. Apeksha Bhosle
3. Khushboo Chotia
4. Tamanna Chotia
5. Bhagyashree Nayak

Health Camp Organisd At Village Garinda on 7th March 2010 by NSS,BITS,Pilani.

NSS BITS Pilani organised health camp on 7 march 2010 in Garinda village( 12 kms from Pilani.)in the government upper primary school. The camp was inaugurated by Prof.R.K. Mittal, Deputy Director( Administration), BITS-Pilani. In this camp, Dr. R.P. Pareek (physician) and Dr. Sanjana Bhatt (gynaecologist) provided their services.

During the health camp, about 160 people got their medical check up along with blood sugar testing and were given free medicines, if required. In case of serious patients, suggestion was given to them for further consultation at BITS-Pilani Medical Centre or Seva Bharti Pilani.

Prof. N.V.M. Rao, (Dean, Students Welfare Division), Prof. Vimal Bhanot (NSS Coordinator), Manish Gurwani (NSS student president) , Abhinav Prakash( Health Coordinator) and program officers of NSS units along with student volunteers and villagers were present. All volunteers put in their dedicated efforts for the smooth conduct of this camp.

Prof. R. K. Mittal inspired the children gathered at the inauguration to put hard work and take guidance from the NSS volunteers, so that they should also aim for studying at BITS, Pilani. He thanked the head master of the school, Shri. Lila Ram Ji for his whole hearted co operation. A class 8th student Surinder Kumar, son of, Mukhtiar Singh of this school was also awarded by Prof. R.K. Mittal, for getting the INSPIRATION award from Science and Technology department of government of India.

Shri. Lilaramji , Head master of the school, put up a request to Prof. R.K.Mittal for the computer facility in school supported by BITS,Pilani.

29th year of Blood Donation Camp at BITS Pilani !

A two day blood donation camp was held at BITS Pilani on 30-31 January and this happens to be the 29^th year of blood donation camps at the Institute which has been holding this activity every year without any break The program was organized by the National Service Scheme of the Institute in association with Indian Red Cross Society, Delhi, led by Dr Jasbir Singh apart from 15 helping staff.

Further, this year’s camp has registered an increase of upto 62% in the number of donors, as 841 people donated the blood this year as against 520 people last year. Donors included both teaching and non teaching staff and students of the Institute. Besides, students and staff members of the neighboring colleges and schools too also participated in blood donation though in small number.

Said Prof Vimal Bhanot, the NSS Coordinator while concluding the camp, “Students showed huge enthusiasm for blood donation this year. Much before the formal opening of the camp, they had already queued up for donation and it continued till the last moment. In fact, there were many more people who came to donate blood but we had to reject them because of medical reasons. And, six security staff came to the camp after the program was over unknowingly and they had to go disappointed ”.

Vice Chancellor Prof L K Maheshwari opened the camp on the morning of the morning of 30^th.

Over 50 volunteers of NSS worked hard for nearly a month to make the program a success. Preparatory activities they undertook include : Display of banners and posters all over the campus, Door to Door campaign in the hostels and staff residences, Slide displays in Institute auditoriums and Intensive Awareness Program for allaying fears about blood donation. The Institute provided all support.

Indian Red Cross Society was immensely pleased with the success of blood donation camp at Pilani this year. Dr Jasbir Singh from Red Cross Society said “this kind of networking and organizational capabilities of students is worth imitating in other universities”.

Last year, the Indian Red Cross Society awarded BITS Pilani for having provided maximum number of Voluntary Blood Donors amongst educational institutions of the country during the year 2008-9.

BITS Pilani awarded for maximum number of Voluntary Blood Donors amongst educational institutions during year 2008-09 .

Indian Red Cross Society awarded BITS Pilani for having providing maximum number of Voluntary Blood Donors amongst educational institutions of the country during the year 2008-9. The Award was presented at a function held at the headquarters of the Indian Red Cross Society in Delhi on the occasion of Voluntary Blood Donation Day on 1^st October 2009. It was presented by Dr Salim J Habayeb, Indian Representative of World Health Organization who was the Chief Guest on the occasion.

The award was received by NSS Coordinator Prof Vimal Bhanot and Prof N V M Rao, Dean, Student Welfare of the university.

NSS Unit of the Institute has been organizing the Blood Donation Day for the past 28 years in the month of March in association with Indian Red Cross Society. Speaking at the NSS Office at BITS, the Coordinator, Prof Vimal Bhanot said, “Institute promotes the noble cause as both students and faculty members have been contributing blood every year. It is their enthusiastic participation which drives us conduct the Blood Donation camp every year”. Besides students and staff, many family members also have been contributing blood every year, said Prof Bhanot.

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