ABOUT THE ORGANIZATION
The National Service Scheme is
primarily stands for channalising the students youth for building the nation.
The youth in all ages has been in the vanguard of progress and social change,
thirst for freedom, impatience for quickerpace of progress and a
passion for innovation, coupled with idealism and creative fervour, saw the youth in the forefront of the freedom struggle in our own land. If our youth was inspired by the call of the Father of the Nation in the first half of this century, the youth of today faces the challenge of economic development and technological progress with social justice.
passion for innovation, coupled with idealism and creative fervour, saw the youth in the forefront of the freedom struggle in our own land. If our youth was inspired by the call of the Father of the Nation in the first half of this century, the youth of today faces the challenge of economic development and technological progress with social justice.
Ever since independence there has
been growing awareness of the desirability of involving students in National
Service.� The first Education Commission (1950) recommended the introduction of
national service by students on a voluntary basis.� Subsequently on the basis of
suggestion made by the then Prime Minister pt. Nehru, a committee was appointed
under the chairmanship pf Dr. C D Deshmukh to prepare a scheme for compulsory
national service by youth in several countries, recommended that national
service may be introduced on a voluntary basis.� A similar recommendation was
made by the Education Commission appointed under the Chairmanship of Dr. D S
Kothari.
In April 1967, the Conference of
State Education Ministers recommended that at the University stage, students
could be permitted to join the national Cadet Corps which was already in
existence on a voluntary basis and an alternative to this could be offered to
them in the form of a new programme called the National service Scheme (NSS).�
Promising sportsmen, however, should be exempted from both and allowed to join
another scheme called National Sports Organization (NSO), in view of the need to
give priority to the development of sports and athletics.
The conference of Vice-Chancellors
in September 1967 welcomed this recommendation and suggested that a social
committee of Vice Chancellors should be sent up to examine this question in
detail.� The details were soon worked out and the planning Commission sanctioned
on outlay of Rs. 5 crore for developing the NSS during the 4th Five
Year Plan as a pilot project in selected institution and universities.� In
pursuance of these recommendations, the Ministry of Education introduced
National Service Scheme during 1969-70.� The choice of the timing of its
introduction was remarkably auspicious as 1969 was the birth centenary year of
Mahatma Gandhi, the father of Nation to whom social service was almost a
religion.
The response of students to the
scheme has been excellent.� Starting with an enrollment of 40,000 students in
1969, the coverage of NSS students has increased every year.� Now the strength
of NSS is 27% of the total student population in the country.
The scheme now extends to all the
states and universities in the country.� Students, teachers, parents, guardians,
persons in authority in government, universities and colleges and the people in
general now realize the need and significance of NSS.� It has aroused among the
students and youth an awareness of the realities of life, a better understanding
and appreciation of the problems of the people.� NSS is, thus a concrete attempt
in making education relevant to the needs of the society.
AIM AND OBJECTIVE OF NSS
AIM OF NSS
- Development of the personality of students through community service.
OBJECTIVES OF NSS
- To work with/among people;
- To engage in creative and constructive social action;
- To enhance his/her knowledge of himself/herself and the community
- To put his/her scholarship to practical use in mitigating at least some of the problems.
- To gain skill in the existence of democratic leadership
- To gain skills in programme development to enable him/her for self employment
- To bridge the gulf between the educated and the uneducated masses; and
- To promote the will to serve the weaker sections of the community.