NSS
Well-functioning Unit No. 161 of National Service Scheme in the college has been concentrating on the development of readiness to service and social commitment among its Volunteers. The units conduct programs on personality development, legal literacy, women empowerment, palliative care and other relevant areas in service to humanity. The units also conduct programs on specific important days to create awareness among the student. The units prove to be an inevitable part in every special occasions of the institution. The units render its services within the college and the adopted village through service, rallies and different awareness programmes. . They are dedicated to find out the problems of the inmates of the adopted village and ensure remedies in a nascent way. In the last two years our NSS unit organised many activities to care, oversee, protect and preserve the environment and nature in all its forms. NSS Volunteers instigated a vegetable farm in the college premises. Annual special camps are much remembered by their services like plastic free cherukara ward and CLEAN ELAMKULAM GREEN ELAMKULAM PROJECT .Our volunteers tried to be the messengers of compassion through various activities they undertook such as BLOOD DONATION, ANNAM SUKURTHAM, and COVID VACCINATION CAMP.
NSS Unit in our College was established in 2003 with the motto “Not me but you”, aimed at developing student’s personality through community service. It is not an easy task to select 50 NSS Volunteers from more than 150 applicants, every year. They are selected after finding out their aptitude for service learning through interview. The NSS unit of our college also promote differently abled pupils to come up with their sociocultural activities. The unit has reached a long way by the tasks undertaken by the Volunteers in the Campus and it is exploring in many of the social activities such as, Education and Recreation, Environment Enrichment and Conservation, Health, Family Welfare and Nutrition programmes, Activities during emergencies, Social Service Programmes and Skill development programmes. The driving force behind all these activities of this unit is our amazing Principal Dr. P.K. Jaganathan and the strength behind all the successful activities conducted in the campus is Dr. Shibu S, The Programme Officer and the students. Finally, we are proud to state that, we are the first in introducing online NSS Campus during pandemic in The University of Calicut.
