RAMANUJAN COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF DELHI
NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME

PREVIOUS COVID ASSISTANCE INITIATIVES :-

The NSS Unit of Ramanujan College initiated an array of
events for Covid Assistance, from April 2021 onwards
and still we are continuing. The reports for the same are
as follows:-

COVID ASSISTANCE GROUP

The NSS Unit of Ramanujan College, University of Delhi

in the month of April when the entire India was in the
middle of a second COVID-19 wave tried to provide
assistance and aid by creating a Covid-19 Assistance
Group to help the people in need. It was all done under
the counsel and supervision of NSS Programme Officer
Dr Alok Ranjan Pandey and Respected Principal Sir Dr
S.P. Aggarwal with whose direction the volunteers
successfully tried to help and provide necessary
information to the civilians.
The group was created on 27th April and was functional
throughout the month of May. Student Volunteers
showed great enthusiasm and active participation in
disseminating essential information from contact details
of plasma donors, oxygen cylinders to food service
availability. The most crucial task and something each
and every volunteer was particular about was verifying
all the potential leads before putting it out anywhere as
wrong information could cause hassle and confusion to
the already worried and tensed patients. So, each day
the volunteers from morning to evening verified as many
numbers as possible and checked probable sources to
establish the authenticity of the information. An excel
sheet was then formed in which compiled list of all these
sources from availability of beds, blood and plasma
donors and other related information was present. Later
on the same verified leads were not only shared on
WhatsApp groups but also on Instagram handle and
Facebook page of NSS Ramanujan so as to extend aid
to a larger number of people. Another essential feature
of the Covid 19 Assistance group was that quick
information made available regarding any essential
service that the Covid patients or their families required,
each day there were queries regarding either oxygen
cylinders or hospital beds and due to the activeness of
the volunteers verified and instant leads were provided
as time was an integral factor during those months and
every member was very much aware of the same. Not
only this awareness about lunch/canteen drives and
oxygen langars conducted in Gurudwaras were also
dissipated among various groups and portals. Every
morning, regular and freshly updated information was
compiled and spread. The volunteers left absolutely no
stone unturned in collecting and spreading authentic
information and did whatever they could in their potential
to make all the valid details and news accessible.
All in all the group was made with purpose of helping
and providing assistance to the needy and the same
was achieved due to the zestful involvement and
contribution of the NSS Volunteers. The combined
efforts of everyone in the group especially that of Srijan,
Tarsem, Ankit, Avika, Sneha, Amit and Kavita was
pivotal and crucial in the making and propagating of this
information through the group.
 Plasma and Blood Donation Drive
The Ramanujan College, University Of Delhi had
organized a Plasma and Blood Donation Drive from 2nd
May 2021 to 2nd June 2021. This initiative was taken
under the guidance of Principal of Ramanujan College,
Dr. S.P. Aggrawal and NSS Program Officer , Dr. Alok
Ranjan Pandey .

According to Dr. Pandey , the drive would be organized

at different locations near college. And he said," We
were constantly in touch with some potential donors and
we got them on board to donate. More concerted efforts
were made to bring on board a larger number of
people."

Along with teachers , NSS Volunteers had contributed

their best efforts to make this drive successful. All the
were fully active 24/7 to achieve the target. The result
we had received was really appreciable. We were able
to satisfy many people who donated plasma and
initiated a positive step in the society. They inspired all
of us and other people to do the same and hence the
results were really commendable. After the completion
of the drive all the volunteers were very overwhelmed to
made the drive successfully done.
 Report on Mental Health Webinar

NSS Coordinator – Dr Alok Ranjan Pandey

National Service Scheme, Ramanujan College
conducted an interactive session on ‘Eliminating Mental
Stress’ on 4th May 2020 at IST 3 P.M. The session was
organised by NSS programme officer Dr Alok Ranjan
Pandey and the guest speaker for this event was Mr
Shubham Singhal, a professional psychologist and
research scholar at SGT University.
The webinar was organised with the prime objective to
address and spread awareness about mental health,
fear and anxiety that are extensively pervasive during
these uncertain times. It was an attempt to answer
questions that surround mental wellbeing of individuals
and ways to subdue difficulties which have emerged due
to the pandemic.
The event commenced on a sanguine note with an
address by respected Principal Dr S.P. Aggarwal who
appealed the students to stay away from negativity that
is quite widespread in the prevailing times and instead of
watching depressing news and surfing social media
asked students to read informative books and help the
deprived. Then Dr Alok Ranjan invited our esteemed
guest and the session proceeded without a hitch.
Mr Shubham Singhal our guest speaker addressed a
variety of issues. He briefly talked about various reasons
that are promoting mental distress and anxiety, both in
the youth and the elderly and listed numerous ways
through which one can tackle and ensure healthy social
and mental wellbeing and said that communication is the
best tool. Therefore, he asserted that by keeping
ourselves engrossed in our hobbies, taking proper
healthy diet and performing some physical activity one
can tackle boredom. He concluded his address by
appealing everyone to look out for their loved ones and
find happiness in small moments as it can lead to a
feeling of optimism and solitude.
The webinar was led and executed successfully and
towards the end students who were facing some mental
health related issues posed their questions which were
readily answered by our guest speaker. The event
concluded by delivering of a vote of thanks by respected
Dr Alok Ranjan Pandey who thanked everyone for
attending especially the organisers whose constant
efforts led to hosting of such a productive and
meaningful event.
 YOUNG WARRIOR YOUTH LED MOVEMENT

In the worst pandemic of covid many people suffered a

lot, many lost their loved ones, everyone faced a lot of
pain. But many out of these people came forward as
warriors in disguise for others. Feeling everyone’s
problems and need they dedicated their time to help
others. These warriors did their best and provided all the
possible help to the needy. They were active 24/7 for
serving people.
On May 21st,2021 The ministry of Youth Affairs and
Sports,cbse,YuWAAH and UNICEF India took an
initiative to appreciate all the young corona warriors and
led this movement reach many to spread awareness
regarding this. The volunteers of NSS unit of Ramanujan
College, Delhi University did their best in all possible
ways to help people. All the young warriors of NSS unit
have played an equally important role. Young Warrior
Youth Led Movement took this initiative to tackle our
country’s battle against COVID-19.
The first step was to enroll as the young Warrior and
complete the registration process.. For that the
volunteers were supposed to do some simple tasks and
received a certificate. The whatsapp no, phone no., and
the link was provided to them for the same. It’s motive
was so good. Firstly, to appreciate the volunteers who
have played an important role in the time of pandemic.
Secondly to spread the movement and awareness
everywhere via social media platforms.
24 Volunteers took part in it and completed the tasks.
Their role was to clerify myths and misconceptions
related to covid, to eliminate the vaccine hesitancy
among the people, and the amplification of
accurate,evidence-based,comprehensive information.
The volunteers were given some tasks they had to
select the tasks and they had performed it following the
given instructions to them and after completing the tasks
successfully they were allotted their respective
certificates within some span of days on their email id.
For the same they organised a live session on Facebook
briefing about their initiative and reasons for that. They
boosted up all the volunteers and directed them the right
path to be a warrior. Not only they explained about their
tasks but also inspired everyone by sharing their
experiences of helping people and achieving the best
feeling of being a warrior for many. Everyone was taught
very valuable and knowledgeable things. All the
volunteers were very enthusiastic, sincere, and active
throughout the session. The session ended on a positive
where the he organizations which led the tasks warmly
thanked all the young warriors and the volunteers also
expressed their gratitude towards them.
Every volunteer enjoyed the tasks and learnt a lot from it
and they inspired everyone to do the same.

After the above mentioned events, a very informative

webinar on Psychosocial Skills for Handling Covid
Pandemic by Community engagement was conducted
by the NSS Society, Ramanujan College, in
collaboration with Ministry of Education, on July 1st ,
2021. The report for the same is given below.

Workshop on Psychosocial Skills for Handling

Covid Pandemic by Community engagement.

Report by : Preeti Kapil and Shagun Pathak

NSS Coordinator- Dr. Alok Ranjan Pandey

National Service Scheme (NSS), society of Ramanujan

college, and Ministry of Education Pandit Mohan
Malviya National Mission On Teachers and Learning on
1st july 2021,Thursday organised the live workshop on
PSYCHOSOCIAL SKILLS FOR HANDLING COVID
PANDEMIC BY COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
The event commenced at 11 in the morning , with the
members of NSS society introducing and welcoming the
people , followed by the principal sir Dr. S. P. Aggarwal
and Programme Officer , Dr. Alok Ranjan Pandey
shared his insights on the idea of social service and how
the NSS will, in turn, serve the society in providing
psychological help to everyone .
Eventually, NSS team has invited Dr. Shalini Sharma,
Department of psychology and convenor, Counselling
and mental health awareness cell and Neha Dagar,
Consultant , Ministry of Education Government in India.
Both the chief guests were very calm and generous and
shared all their experiences with the students. Firstly,
Ms. Dagar shared her insights on psychosocial skills.
She told how an individual can help the society in this
pandemic time and what are the little steps he/she
should take at his level to help the society. She put her
insights on the aspects of sympathy and empathy and
told about the importance of teamwork. She gave
numerous examples to the students to clear her each
and every points . And she also asked questions to the
students which made the session more interactive and
interesting. After this , Dr. Sharma enlightened the
students with her presentation and brought different
points focusing more on student's problems. She
informed everyone about the Counselling and Mental
Health Awareness Cell . She told that how the cell came
into existence and how it is working in this pandemic
situation. During discussion, she also talked about the
post covid effect and also gave the solutions for the
same. She also shared some social media posts created
by volunteers.
Thereafter, both the chief guests asked the students for
their queries. As usual, many students asked their
queries and problems from the guests. Some students
even shared their experiences .And then, being calm
and genuine, both the chief guests gave answers of all
the questions. Then , Dr. Pandey thanked the guests for
their precious time and he also thanked the organizers
for such a successful workshop.
After the webinar, the Covid Helpers groups were
formed on 9th July,2021, after which several activities
have been done by the volunteers. The reports for the
activities and events conducted July onwards are given
below.
 MGNCRE Post Covid Care Report No. 1

Team- Covid Helpers- NSS Volunteers

College- Ramanujan College
Report- First
Date- 19th July, 2021
Core Team Members: Ruchika Choudhary , Divya
Singh, Preeti Kapil, Amit Kumar, Pallavi Saroch

Abstract:-

 The NSS Society of Ramanujan College, University

of Delhi, took an initiative of creating Covid Helpers
Groups to provide assistance and aid to people in
need.
 Five different groups were formed according to the
categories of work, on 9th July, 2021.
 The tasks were allotted to the team members
according to their teams.
 Basically, the roles and responsibilities included
sharing verified information, providing emotional
and moral support to the Covid patients, and
spreading awareness regarding areas of concern
like prevention of Covid, importance of Vaccination
and its effects, etc.
 The social media was utilized in the best way
possible for assistance and spreading awareness in
this situation.

Core Team Members :-

Ruchika Choudhary (Team-1) - 8440073314

Divya Singh (Team-2) - 8586070187
Preeti Kapil (Team-3) - 9557076164
Amit Kumar (Team-4) - 8448544179
Pallavi Saroch (Team-5) - 8433255010

HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT TEAM

Team Leader - Ruchika Choudhary , Contact No:-

8440073314
The NSS Unit of Ramanujan College, University of
Delhi, started an initiative to spread awareness and
necessary assistance wherever required. All of this was
done under the guidance and direction of NSS
Programme Officer Dr Alok Ranjan Pandey and
respected Principar Dr S.P. Aggarwal, who were the
ones primarily behind the actuation of this resourceful
programme. The programme commenced under the
NSS COVID Helpers Group, which was further divided
into five teams. Each team was allotted its own distinct
responsibility. The first Team Hospital Management
Team was allocated with the governance and charge of
healthcare administration and looking at the availability
of vitally essential resources pertaining to health and
medicine. There were ten members in the team, who
ensured that every thing occurred without any hindrance
and tried to resolve issues promptly. These volunteers
included – Ruchika, Anchal, Ishika, Khushi, Dhriti,
Ruksar, Arya, Sandhya, Saksham, and Palak. During
the second wave of the pandemic, the chief objective
was to look out for credible resources like oxygen
cylinders, integral medicines, bed availability, and any
sort of hospital related requirement that came to our
notice. So, to do the same, all the reliable sources were
first collected and put together. Later on, an excel sheet
containing information about all these requirements was
collated, which was then updated daily by the members
of the group. Every day started off with volunteers
checking if the organized information in the excel sheet
was authentic and if it was still available or not. It was
made sure that each and every minute detail shared
with the ailing patients and their families was hundred
percent authentic in order to avoid hassle or confusion
from our end. Moreover, when the second wave settled
down, the group was still functional and this time the
objective and aim was to spread awareness about
vaccination. The volunteers helped the needy and the
uneducated to access the COWIN Portal and took it on
themselves to register these people for vaccination.
Furthermore, reels, informational videos, posters and
other necessary messages were disseminated in
multiple groups and on the social media handles of NSS
Ramanujan, to make everyone aware of the necessity of
getting vaccinated and also, educational counselling
was given to those who were hesitant about getting
themselves jabbed. Myths, rumours, and fake news
regarding vaccination and the credibility of vaccines
were eliminated through the combined efforts of the
volunteers. The volunteers did everything in their power
to educate and dissipate necessary information to the
people, and the heads made sure that everything
happened smoothly. Overall, the Hospital Management
Team delivered needed assistance, aid and information
during these erratic times. Srijan, Tarsem, Ankit, and
Avika also played a decisive role in establishing and
monitoring the group.

Link for the videos:-

https://drive.google.com/folderview?
id=1RSmleILODJcUzX9_Xfq-KP19HR815XXP
 NSS COVID HELPERS REPORT – NON HOSPITAL
MANAGEMENT TEAM

Team leader – Divya Singh, Contact No:- 8586070187

The NSS Society of Ramanujan College, University of
Delhi, came up with an initiative of creating Covid
Helpers Groups to provide assistance and aid to people
in need. The groups were formed according to the five
different categories of work.
The volunteers :- Divya Singh, Riya Malhotra, Radhika
Garg, Aakriti, Riya Sharma, Zarka, Aparna, Divesh,
Eshan, Piyush, Naman were included in the Team 2 ,
i.e. Non Hospital Management Team .
The main role of the Non Hospital Management Team
was to provide leads regarding the distribution of food,
and the other necessary information and contact details,
with the needy persons. The team managed to verify
and share the leads and contacts for the distribution of
food ,medicines and oxygen cylinders. They confirmed
the information from trusted sources and shared the
Covid Helpline Numbers on Whatsapp groups as well as
other social media platforms, including Instagram and
twitter. Excel sheets were formed in which they
compiled all the information and verified contact details.
These were updated time to time.
Apart from this, the volunteers shared the awareness
related posters on different social media platforms. The
posters were designed by the technical team, with
informative content and slogans for awareness,
regarding some necessary areas of concern, like
importance of vaccination, its effects, and how we can
prevent the spread of Covid-19 by minor efforts.
The social media was utilized in the best way possible
for assistance in this situation.
 REPORT - FAMILY RELATED TEAM

Team Leader:- Preeti Kapil , Contact No:- 9557076164

The NSS unit of Ramanujan College , University of Delhi

, started various programs and events to spread
awareness and for giving assistance to the people
during the pandemic . And all of this was done under the
guidance and direction of NSS Programme Officer Dr
Alok Ranjan Pandey and respected Principal Dr S.P.
Aggarwal, who were the ones primarily behind the
actuation of this resourceful programme. With the
various programs, an important program by NSS
volunteers was started with the creation of NSS Covid
Helper Group , in which various information about the
Covid related issues have been shared .
Then , the volunteers in the Covid Helper Group were
further divided into five teams and for the same five
whatsApp groups were created. The third group Family
Related Team was allocated with responsibilities of
taking care of family related issues during the pandemic
in their locality. All the nine volunteers put their efforts
and tried to resolve the issues they found near them .
Volunteers like Preeti , Sejal , Prerna , Janvi , Cheshta,
Sneha , Sagun , Simran and Asmita were included in the
group and divided their roles to work efficiently. Some of
their volunteers helped in their locality for getting
registered the people near them and some even took
the elder to the vaccination centre to get them
vaccinated. Volunteers daily updated the group with new
posters and videos for the families to make them relaxed
in this difficult time of pandemic .
It was found that many of the people were not ready for
the vaccination but hopefully our volunteers were
successful in making them understand about the
importance of vaccination. The Family Related Team put
in their day and night to help the people with various
things .
Our volunteers became the support of many families
who were not having anyone to look after.
With their great efforts our volunteers are on the road to
success . And hopefully they will continue in helping
people in this journey of hard times.

Drive Link:-
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oREbkNXRettONLuwkkS
SHBY6Q0VWhpd5/view?usp=drivesdk
 Team Report- Sharing the information of medical
essentials

Team Leader :- Amit, Contact No: - 8448544179

We all are suffering from covid from more than one
year.it leads to the dramatic loss of human life,
resources and so on. People don't have that much of
knowledge and awareness about the medical essentials.
We lost so many people due to it. In this situation we
need a team which can help people regarding the
medical essentials.
The nss society of Ramanujan college, university of
Delhi,came up with a great initiative under the guidance
of our principal Dr S.P. Agrawal and nss program officer
Dr Alok Ranjan Pandey of Making covid helpers teams
to provide all information and help regarding covid.
Five different teams were formed on the basis of
different kinds of work to handle the different
responsibilities during this pandemic.
Sharing the information of medical essentials is the
fourth team .The team members are :- Amit, Naincy,
Niharika, Nandini, Riya, Manasvi, Harshita, Anishi,
Shivam, Rahul, Sonam. The main role of sharing the
information of the medical essentials team is to provide
details of medical essentials like oxygen beds
availability, oxygen cylinder, doctors etc.

The work done by the team is listed below-

1.our volunteers searched availability of medical
resources in different regions and hospitals through
social media or other platforms and they personally
verified all the leads then they spread it as much as
possible.
2. They verified the news and confirmed that it's working
or not.
3. We also made awareness videos and posters.
 TEAM Report: - COMMUNICATING WITH COVID
PATIENTS

Team leader - Pallavi , Contact No:- 8433255010

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of

human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented
challenge to public health, food systems and the world
of work. The economic and social disruption caused by
the pandemic is devastating. At that hour of need the
most important thing which is required along with
doctors assistance/treatment was one’s support. To let
people come out of the covid trauma a mental support
and awareness was must.
The NSS unit of RamanujanCollege took a great
initiative under the guidance of respected Principal sir
Dr. S.P. Aggarwal and NSS Programme Officer
Dr.AlokRanjan Pandey. Five different teams were made
to handle different responsibilities during the time. The
Communicating with covid patients was one of them.
The main motive of this team was to make people
aware about the Do’s and Dont's to stop the chain of
covid spread.
The team members are :- Pallavi, Arpit, Tanvi, Srishti,
Pragya, Kavita, Jahnavi , Kesari, Prachi, Abhishek
The work carried down is listed below-
The Team managed to find contact details of covid
patients and personally communicatedto the post covid
patients and listened to their experiences very politely.
Not only with outsiders, the team also helped at their
level by communicating all the necessary things with
their family, relatives and society members. Moreover,
as talking with each person was not possible due to the
health issues of the covid person, the team sent get well
soon messages with proper series of precautions to be
taken to many of the patients. Some videos related to
mental peace and psychological well being was also
conveyed to them.
To spread this initiative on huge level, digital covid
awareness posters for proper diet schedule and yoga to
be performed were made by the team members and
uploaded on social media. Along with all these efforts,
the team cooperatively worked with other teams for
different tasks and worked collectively as one Team.
AUD-20210719-WA0 AUD-20210719-WA0
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These are the audios in which two of our team members

had a conversation with covid patients.

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This is a psychological well- being video for covid

pateints.