April 14, 2015

Anuraag
In this issue:
Highlights
Photo feature: Regular activities
Photo feature: Annual Blood donation
Camp
Powering Indias Youth efforts of
Senate by Hitabrata Chowdhury

a newsletter of NSS IIT Kharagpur

Highlights
About 70 volunteers of Unit 3 helped building a road at Malma in
February. They even procured the raw materials needed for their
work with funds from IIT Kharagpur. Similarly about 150
volunteers of Units 2, 7, 12 and 13 repaired about 400 m stretch of
road at Bolla village. Khelar Anchal Pradhan provided the raw
materials for this work. A number of residents of Bolla youngsters
to elderly ladies also pitched in this effort. Contribution of these
volunteers in the sweltering early summer heat was very much
appreciated by the locals of Malma and Bolla.
Six projects on social issues with IIT Kharagpur funding taken up
by NSS IIT Kharagpur are progressing well. One on sustainable
agriculture at Pariapara under the stewardship of Unit 5 and
Professor Dilip Swain led to the development of compost beds at
several households in Pariapara; each likely to generate yearly
incomes of about Rs 30,000. An organic farming venture at
Pariapara set up in this endeavour is also nearing fruition with the
first harvest of sweet corn is expected to reach the market within the
next few weeks. In another of those projects Unit 15 volunteers
under Professor Veni Adyam are setting up two puffed rice making
machines at Sholadahar. This is also expected to supplement the
monthly income each of ten participating women by about Rs 1,000.
Medical camps were organized recently at Hiradihi by Unit 11, at
Pariapara by Unit 5; and at Sholadahar by Unit 15. Drs B Sahoo,
consultant at BC Roy Technology Hospital, IIT Kharagpur, G
Biswas, SA Najmi and P Patnaik of SE Railway Hospital, PK
Sannigrahi of BC Roy Technology Hospital; N Francis, H Singh, J
Dutta, R Mukherjee, S Paul and S Basu of School of Medical
Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur; and Mr J Dhole of
Kharagpur Eye Hospital and Eye Bank helped with these efforts.
NSS IIT Kharagpur helped with the Republic Day celebration at
IIT Kharagpur on January 26 by hosting about 100 participating
school children. Their Annual Blood Donation Camp of March 21
led to the collection of 80 units of blood. In addition, NSS continue
to teach underprivileged children, monitor water quality, provide
nutritional supplement at primary schools and campaign for social
awareness.
Also shared in this edition is the work of SENATE, Kolkata.
Students of IIT Kharagpur have been participating in some of their
endeavours. NSS volunteers would surely like to learn from these
initiatives.

Photo feature
Regular activities

More than 1000 NSS

volunteers from IIT
Kharagpur spends three
hours every week
teaching children,
planting saplings,
assessing water quality,
helping repair damaged
hutments and roads,
organizing rally for
social awareness
campaign, and
conducting medical
camps at more than 20
villages and slums
around IIT Campus.
This photo feature is on
a few of these
activities.

Photo feature
Blood Donation Camp

The annual blood donation

camp took place on March 21,
2015 at Transit Hostel, IIT
Kharagpur with help from
Kharagpur Voluntary Blood
Donors Organization,
Medinipur blood bank and BC
Roy Technology Hospital.
Eighty students, research
scholars and faculty members
donated blood in the event.
Component separation was
used for the first time at an
NSS blood donation camp; a
technique from which up to
four recipients will benefit
from a single unit of blood
donated.

Powering Indias Youth activities of SENATE

Hitabrata Chowdhury
SENATE, Kolkata 700064
hitabratac@yahoo.co.in

With 356 million 10 to 24

year olds, India has the
world's largest youth
population
United Nations

United Nations reckon the number of 15 to 59 year old Indians

as percentage of the entire population of the country is to remain
consistently above 50 over the next six decades. Thus India will
have the largest working age population in the world over the
next several decades. This abundance of human capital
demographic dividend could fuel the growth of the country if
trained and put to proper use. Social Engineering and Advanced
Technical Education, SENATE, was formed by a group of
engineers, social scientists, and entrepreneurs to make an effort
towards developing appropriate skill levels among the youth so
that the country could tap into the demographic dividend.
SENATE started with an initiative, Asthabhojan, in 2007 with
five participating womens groups. Within a year the another 77
womens groups joined the project with the Government of West
Bengal starting to fund the efforts for creating livelihood
opportunities for 100 underprivileged women of the Bidhannagar
area of Kolkata. Asthabhojan has now become popular in terms
of its business process and sustenance model. In this initiative
womens groups were trained in preparing hygienic food and
vending them to the office workers of newly developing
commercial districts on Kolkatas outskirts by engaging
renowned chefs of the city. SENATE continues to conduct
similar training programs for developing entrepreneurship, skill
for self help groups and unemployed youth. Such programs are
being run in social environments as varied as slums of Kolkata to
tribal areas of Jharkhand.
SENATE have organized training programs in paper bag
making, making handicrafts using jute, leather and paper pulp,
mushroom cultivation, manufacturing artificial jewellery,
tailoring, plumbing, electrical works, repairing of electrical and
electronic equipment, e.g., air conditioner, refrigerator, computer
hardware, mobile handsets, carpentry, automobile and machine
repair, catering, hospitality management, and security services.
They also helped the trainees in marketing their newly-acquired
skills as well.
SENATE have worked with the Society for Self Employment
of Unemployed Youth, Panchayat and Rural Development
Department of Government of West Bengal, West Bengal
Swarojgar Corporation, National Institute of Fashion Technology
(NIFT), Indian Institute of Engineering Science and Technology
(erstwhile Bengal Engineering and Science University), Shibpur,
Gardenreach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited, and Tribal
Development Cooperative Corporation Limited, and undertaking
of the Government of West Bengal. SENATE have also worked
with Technology based Entrepreneurship Development Program
at IIT Kharagpur in 2014. They wish to have a larger association
with IIT and work with the students under the National Service
Scheme (NSS) initiatives in vocational skill development for the
youth and the women of villages around IIT Kharagpur.

Anuraag
April 14, 2015

Units 7, 10 and 11 school news

Benapur High School, where unit 7 have
been teaching since January, have instituted
scholarships for brilliant yet deserving
students of classes VIII to X from the annual
gift of Rs 3,600 of Mr S Bhattacharya
(bsurajit@gmail.com) to NSS IIT Kharagpur.
Unit 11 have also instituted a similar
scholarship at Hiradihi Madhyamik Siksha
Kendra, where they have been teaching since
February, for students of classes VI to IX
funded by donations received by NSS. The
first batch of Benapur and Hiradihi students
selected from a quiz and an interview
conducted by NSS volunteers and school
teachers are to receive their awards during
the NSS day program of April 14. Unit 10
volunteers have started teaching at Siddharth
and Bharat primary schools at Ayma area.
Balarampur Abhoy Ashram Naitaleem
Vidyapith primary school in Balarampur,
where Unit 10 have been teaching earlier,
has been taken over by Unit 8.

Outstanding volunteers, 2014-2015

Unit Nominated outstanding volunteer
1
Alekhya Banki, Indranuj Das and Sheikh
Aurangzeb
2
Subham Uttam and Rachit Madhukar
3
Prabhat Agarwal and Subham Gupta
4
Abhishek Mondal
5
Ankit Somra, Meka Asa Kiran, Johnson
Dominic and Rajat Gupta
6
Lokesh Singh and Sushovan Mandal
7
Sanjay Kumar Nayak, Debasish Darshan Das,
Rakesh Chhipa and Sumit Kumar
8
Sreedhar Sahoo

Unit Nominated outstanding volunteer

9
Britan Biswas, Chandra Prakash Ojha and Sanat
Kumar Saha
10 Rajkumar and Subhajit Kumar Barman
11 Ayan Biswas and Abhimanyu Das
12 Nikita Gagrani
13 Bhavya Kapse, Satyaki Mukherjee, Ashish
Kumar Mishra, Nikhil Gupta and Rakesh Patel
14 Israrul Haque and Kotkar Shivraj Bhagwatrao
15 Kasturi Saha and Ankush Chatterjee

Units with excellent performance, Annual Camp, 2014-2015

Gold medal for unit 6, silver for unit 11 and bronze for unit 15

Benapur High School and Hiradihi MSK scholarship recipients, 2014-2015

Benapur High School
Jahangir Karim Ali (Class VIII)
Radhagobinda Singh (Class IX)
Aniket Goswami (Class X)

Madhyamik Siksha Kendra, Hiradihi

Somal Chalak (Class V)
Asha Hembram (Class VI)
Chandan Murmu (Class (VII)
Nanda Mandi (Class IX)

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3
Prabhat Agarwal and Subham Gupta
4
Abhishek Mondal
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Lokesh Singh and Sushovan Mandal
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Sanjay Kumar Nayak, Debasish Darshan Das,
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Unit Nominated outstanding volunteer

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Sanat Kumar Saha
10 Rajkumar and Subhajit Kumar Barman
11 Ayan Biswas and Abhimanyu Das
12 Nikita Gagrani
13 Bhavya Kapse, Satyaki Mukherjee, Ashish
Kumar Mishra, Nikhil Gupta and Rakesh Patel
14 Israrul Haque and Kotkar Shivraj Bhagwatrao
15 Kasturi Saha and Ankush Chatterjee

Units with excellent performance, Annual Camp, 2014-2015

Gold medal for unit 6, silver for unit 11 and bronze for unit 15

Benapur High School and Hiradihi MSK scholarship recipients, 2014-2015

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Jahangir Karim Ali (Class VIII)
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