Dr. Ambika Kumar

Program Officer,

N.S.S. Unit, B. N. College Bhagalpur

NSS

NSS Activities at B. N. College Bhagalpur

OBJECTIVES:

The principal objective of National Service Scheme unit, Bhagalpur National College Bhagalpur is towards building a beautiful world and spreading the message of environmental preservation, peace and education among today's youth. N.S.S., B. N. College Bhagalpur works on a diverse range of social issues including blood donation, spreading awareness, environmental issues, spreading education at primary levels, etc. Our N.S.S. unit also aims to work for the betterment of society and instill the spirit of social service among the young students. It organizes almost all national events enriched with moral and spiritual values, such as International Yoga Day, National Youth Day, National Environmental Day, National Science Day, National Road Safety Week, awareness drive to encourage voting participation in the election. Apart from these events, unit organizes 7 days special camp every year, particularly at deprived area. During these seven days, volunteers conduct various awareness drive among residents belonging to this area. Furthermore, N.S.S. volunteers of this college participate in several activities/meetings directed by university authorities. Recently our volunteers played important roles during successful conduction of inter-university sport meet (2020) ‘Eklavya’. We have also adopted a deprived locality (‘Domasi’ near Nathnagar, Bhagalpur) to develop it as ‘model village’, in accordance with direction given by governing authority. We frequently visit this adopted area and conduct various awareness drives among which, health issues, cleanliness drive, educations, woman empowerment, plantation, hygienic related drives are important. In this context, volunteers along with Principal, university officials and college employees equipped with banners and slogans conduct a rally from college to this village. Some of our volunteers were selected for National Integration Camp (21 June 2019-27 June 2019) organized by Govt. of India (Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports) and Regional Directorate of N.S.S. Kolkata at Banwarilal Bhalotia College, Asansol, Paschim Bardhman (W.B.).

Activities in Session 2020-2021:

Activities during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown Period:

The COVID-19 pandemic is considered as the one of the most crucial global health calamities of the century and the greatest challenge that the human kind faced so far. Accordingly, a nationwide lockdown is imposed in India, which has been further extended up to 31 st May 2020 in Bihar. During this lockdown period, interaction with N.S.S. volunteers has been continued regularly using online audio-visual mode. Selected volunteers have participated the webinar organized by the Youth and Culture Department of Bihar Govt. on 6th May 2020.They are taking part in different awareness program related to this pandemic in their respective locality. They have distributed more than 500 self-made masks and germ fighting soaps among respective villagers. During this session, they also demonstrate importance of social distancing and different parameters of this lockdown, instructed by government. They also encouraged people to install ‘Aarogya Setu Mobile App’ in their smartphones. Using various social media also, they are spreading message to install this app and to strictly follow different guidelines given by government.

International Yoga Day Celebration (2020):

On the occasion of International Yoga Day (2020), NSS unit of B. N. College Bhagalpur has celebrated the event through zoom meeting on 21st June 2020 in the presence of Principal Prof. (Dr.) Nilu Kumari and Program Officer Dr. Ambika Kumar. We followed the theme Yoga @Home and Yoga with family. Demonstration of various yoga postures and it’s importance were excellently delivered by our retd. colleague Dr. J. P. Sharma sir, which was technically supported by Dr. S. K. Jiloka (Dept. of commerce). Many college staff, students and NSS volunteers (Sujeet Prabhakar, Saawan, Ramesh Rajak, etc.) attended this event.

World Environmental Day (2020):

The event is celebrated every year on 5th of June. This year, owing to the ongoing pandemic COVID-19 situation, few members of college employees could participate in the event. We could manage to collect some fruit bearing plants like Aanwala, Amrood, Nimbu, Bel and Kathal were planted in the presidency of Principal, Prof. (Dr.) Nilu Kumari. Apart from the conventional plantation, we also assemble (with proper physical distance maintenance) and took oath to protect the environmental asset. In this regard, we discus current environmental status in the influence COVID-19 pandemic situation. On this occasion, Dr. Ambika Kumar (P.O., NSS), Dr. Amit Kisore Singh, Dr. Irshad Ali, Sri Anupam Anand Verdhan, Sri Anant Ritwik, Sri Nageshwar Pd. Singh and Sri Pankaj Kumar were present.

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