NSS

# special camp report 26th February to 03rd March,2023     

National Service Scheme (NSS) camp was organized by Seventh-Day Arts and Science College,funded by Gujarat University during the period of 26th February to 3rd March,2023 at Sadra village, Mehamdabad taluka, district-Kheda.

NSS was established in 1969 with a vision of personality development of students through community service and as well as development of rural areas in India.

NSS unit has been introduced in colleges with an optimism of establishing a sense of social responsibility amongst students and inculcating values of self-disciplined and self-less education towards community development. 

As a part of NSS activities, a 6 day camp was held by SDA at Sadra village between 26th February to 3rd March, 2023. Various social activities were held with a sole view of rural development and value education. We, being a part of the cultural committee, undertook various cultural activities in the village to promote interaction with the villagers and used the NSS platform to spread awareness about different social issues.

A team of 32 students, under the guidance of the vice-president of the college Mr. Ramesh, the NSS co-ordinator Ms. Punam Darji and one of the university’s professor Ms. Muskan Khatri were briefed and then were divided into a team of 5. The first event or task assigned to the students was to clean the school and the surroundings where they would stay for the next 5 more days. They cleaned the school, burnt the garbage collected, arranged their belongings and then everyone sat for the lunch. Taking the first step onto village, everyone of the NSS volunteers were filled with a gleaming sense of responsibility to do something and can be summarized with the slogan of “NOT ME NOT YOU BUT WE!”

Every morning of the volunteer began at 5:30 where everyone would gather in the school ground and get themselves ready for the exciting Prabhatferi which lasted for half an hour every morning followed by some physical exercise and some asans of yoga. After Prabhatferi every group was assigned different tasks like school cleaning, rooms cleaning, maintenance of bathrooms or say washrooms, cleaning of the mid-day meal area, etc. After completition of this task everyone left for some breakfast and some went to take a bath. Everyday a new task was assigned to the volunteers after the breakfast like going to the Panchayat house, doing survey in the village, a dairy visit, cleaning of the village areas and organising a medical camp etc. every day respectively.

The thrill and josh of our volunteers and whose is a motto to do service with the tagline “NOT ME NOT YOU BUT WE” flew through the epicentre of Sadra village. After everyday task everyone was sent for the lunch and then the volunteers interacted with the students of the government school, teach them, play games with them, perform zumba dance and also organise matches of kabaddi, kho-kho, cricket, etc.

The evening of the volunteers were filed with various field trips which included visit to the farm house, the tomato field, visit to river-side, also visits to various temples where the volunteers made interaction with their colleagues and made unforgettable memories with them. After these field trips, volunteers used to gather at the school back, freshen up and again get back to the practice for the cultural day of the camp. After 2 hours of relaxation everyone was send for the dinner where the volunteers sat together and share all-long day moments with each other.

The last day of the camp was the day of cultural activity where the cultural event was conducted in the village school. The chief guest of this function was the headmaster of the primary school, headmaster of the high school and the sarpanch of the village. They were honoured by a bouquet and a shawl by the vice-president of the college, the principal of the college and the NSS-coordinator respectively. The purpose of the programme was to encourage the freedom of expression amongst the villagers. The children gave outstanding dance performance, recited poetry and sung songs and also performed a drama which conveyed a social message. The programme was successful in proving the spirit of the people living in rural areas. The programme was concluded at 12:30pm with the recital of the national song VANDE MATARAM.

During the last day lunch, all the activities and event concluded during 6 day special camp was summarized by Ms. Punam Darji, co-ordinator of the NSS unit. Sarpanch of the sadra village expressed his views and opinions regarding our NSS volunteers and the activities carried out during this camp. Sarpanch has appreciated our NSS students and the disciplined maintained during the 6 long day camp. The vote of thanks was given by Mr. Packiaraj, principal of the Seventh-Day Arts and Science college.