Special Camp Activities

NSS Special  Camp is being held at three places.

Theme: Healthy Youth for Healthy India

• 16.09.2008 to 25.09.2008 at Chinna vedampatti

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The National Service Scheme seeks to correct the isolation (insulation) of education from the society by exposing the students to the social realities in their communities. The exposure is to be achieved by providing students a wide range of opportunities to study the problems of the society through practical experience and to understand the implications of efforts to tackle them, thus enabling the students, achieve “Education through Service” as an additional dimension to the educational system, with the following objectives :

• understand themselves and the community in which they work;

• identify the needs and problems in the community and apply their education in finding practical solutions;

• develop among themselves a sense of social and civic responsibility and competence required for group living and sharing responsibilities

• acquire leadership qualities and gain skills for mobilising community participation for their own improvement, and

• develop capacity to meet emergencies and natural disasters and practice national integration.

Elements in the NSS Programme

There are three principal elements in the NSS programming process. They are, the Students, the teachers and the programme content. Each of these elements has many components.

The students have their interests and their needs, their special abilities, their relationship with each other and the teacher, their particular norms and values related to their family and community life.

The teacher has his/her professional knowledge and skills, his/her special abilities, his/her role as a representative of college, university and as a bearer of the values and norms of the college, university and of society as a whole.

The programme content is designed to meet the needs and interests of the students and to maintain or change the norms and values of the group, the community and the society.

Kinds of Programmes

There are two types of programmes. They are, (a) regular NSS programmes under which students undertake various activities in the adopted villages, campuses and urban slums during NSS or after working hours and (b) Special programmes, which include special activities and special camps of 10 days duration, organized in adopted villages or urban slums during vacations with some specific themes, project in hand and with involvement of local community.

Aspects of NSS Programme

The NSS Programmes are undertaken, either under regular or special camping covers four aspects.

1. Institutional work : The students may be placed in selected welfare agencies out side the campus to work as volunteers.

2. Institutional Projects : Improvement of campuses, construction of play fields, swimming pools etc.

3. Rural Projects : Eradication of illiteracy, Minor irrigation works, agricultural operations, health, hygiene, sanitation, development of rural roads etc.

4. Urban Projects : Adult education, welfare of slum dwellers, training in civil defence, setting up first aid posts, hospital work etc.

The National Service Scheme (NSS) then called National Service Corps (NSC) was initiated on September 24th 1969. It was inaugurated on 3rd February 1970 with two NSS units of 100 volunteers each in the Sri Avinashilingam Home Science College. Over the years, the NSS had been strengthened and at present there are 30 units with 3020 volunteers. The NSS has become a major student youth Programme and it is implementing a number of innovative and community based programmes.

NSS in the curriculum

The integration of NSS with the curriculum is a unique distinction of Avinashilingam Deemed University from 1991.

While the scheme has all along been voluntary, educationists have started thinking about incorporating it in the curriculum itself to give it an academic status, credibility and credit. Avinashilingam Deemed University which has a rich heritage in community service and out reach activities had the urge and courage to pioneer in this noble venture and introduced NSS as a core subject in the undergraduate curriculum.

Syllabus>

The syllabus for NSS was prepared by the Board of Studies and approved by the University Academic Council. The syllabus consists of theory as well as practical components.

The Revised syllabus for National Service Scheme for 1st and 2nd year under Graduate Majors (Common paper to all majors except NCC Students) and Break up of marks for NSS (Theory and practical Papers) are presented below.

Syllabus for NSS

Objectives

1. To instill the concept of service in students.

2. To expose the students to the activities of National Service Scheme.

References

1. Department of Youth affairs and Sports, 1994. Indian youth in perspective, Govt. of India, New Delhi.

2. NSS - Manuals and Reports.

Break up of marks

	Theory Marks	Practical Marks
Semester	-	25
II     Semester	50	25	Field Work	10 Marks
III     Semester	-	25	Midterm test	10 Marks
IV. Semester	50	25	Special Activity	5 Marks
Special Camp	-	50		25 Marks
	100    +   150

Future Plans

• Constant updating of the syllabus

• Additional Course on Yoga and Meditation

• Strengthening research in NSS

• Documentation and Publications

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