POL SE 3024 Youth and Nation Building

Course Plan: POL SE 3024 Youth and Nation Building

About the Course:

Course objectives:

The aim of this course is to highlight the importance of NCC and NSS. The students will be able to get involved with the NCC and the NSS and learn about its activities and undertake tasks under its aegis. The students will also be able to learn about the basics of disaster preparedness and its management.

Course Outcome:

• To enable students to learn the importance of youth in NSS and NCC,

• To make students understand the activities related to NSS and NCC and its importance,

• To make students learn the basics of National Disaster Management and its importance.

Course Plan: POL SE 3024 YOUTH AND NATION-BUILDING

Session Plan:

Unit –I: Youth and National Service Scheme (NSS)

• NSS: Organisation and Objectives

• NSS: Activities and Benefits

• NSS and its contribution

Unit-II: Youth and the National Cadet Corps (NCC)

• Aims and objectives of the NCC

• Organisation and Training

• NCC and its benefits

Unit-III: Youth and National Disaster Management

• Disaster Management Plan 2016-an overview

• National Disaster Management Authority

• Community involvement and preparedness: Assam

Reading List:

Unit –I:

• NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME MANUAL (REVISED), available athttp://nss.wbut.ac.in/documents/NSS_manual_2006.pdf

Unit-II:

• ANO Handbook, NCC, Available at: https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://nccindia.nic.in/sites/default/files/

Unit-III:

• National Policy on Disaster Management, available at https://ndma.gov.in/images/guidelines/national-dm-policy2009.pdf

• National Disaster Management Plan, available at: https://ndma.gov.in/images/guidelines/national-dm-policy2009.pdf

• Assam State Disaster Management Authority, http://sdmassam.nic.in/ini2.html