National service scheme is a public service programme of two years conducted by Ministry of Youth affairs and sports of Central Government. NSS identifies the needs of the community in which the NSS volunteers work and involve the local people in their task. It stands for development of social and civic responsibility in the volunteers.

Objectives:

• To understand the community in which the NSS volunteers work
• To understand themselves in relation to their community
• To identify the needs and problems of the community and involve them in problem-solving
• To develop among themselves a sense of social and civic responsibility
• To utilize their knowledge in finding practical solutions to individual and community problems
• To develop competence required for group-living and sharing of responsibilities
• To gain skills in mobilizing community participation
• To acquire leadership qualities and democratic attitudes
• To develop capacity to meet emergencies and natural disasters
• To practice national integration and social harmony

Motto:

The Motto of NSS "Not Me But You", reflects the essence of democratic living and upholds the need for selfless service.

Symbol:

The symbol for the NSS has been based on the giant Rath Wheel of the world famous Konark Sun Temple (The Black Pagoda) situated in Orissa, India. The wheel portrays the cycle of creation, preservation and release and signifies the movement in life across time and space, The symbol thus stands for continuity as well as change and implies the continuous striving of NSS for social change.

Badge

The NSS Symbol is embossed on the badge. The eight bars in the wheel represent the 24 hours of a day. The red colour indicates that the volunteer is full of young blood that is lively, active, energetic and full of high spirit. The navy blue colour indicates the cosmos of which the NSS is a tiny part, ready to contribute its share for the welfare of mankind.

National Level

Youth Programme like National Service Scheme requires administrative structures at various levels for its successful planning and implementation. Therefore, organizational structures have been envisaged at Central, State, University/+2 and College levels. It is vital for the programme to get support at all the levels and to make sure that the programmes and activities get the required attention. Ministry of Youth

Affairs and Sports, New Delhi and NSS Regional Centres

a) The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports is the nodal Ministry for NSS and has been given the administrative responsibility for the Policy Planning, Implementation and Evaluation of NSS programme.

b) National Service Scheme falls under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, which is looked after by the Senior Officer of the rank of the Joint Secretary as far as administration and implementation of the programme is concerned.

State level

a) To strive for removal of bottlenecks in the implementation of NSS Programme in the field.

b) To ensure that the grants including central and state share reach the Universities, colleges and schools in time, so that NSS activities are implemented as per time schedule.

c) The NSS Regional Centre will keep the State Governments informed of the recent developments in different aspects of NSS and the Youth Programme of Government of India for their implementation as and when required.

State Level

State NSS Cell

• To ensure, that budgetary provisions are made for NSS programme in the State budget
• Timely allocation of NSS strength to respective Universities in the State.
• Timely release of grants to Universities and colleges.
• Submission of accounts, statements and programme reports to Government of India.
• Convening meetings of the State NSS Advisory Committee from time to time.

NSS University Cell

Every University should have an NSS Cell to supervise and coordinate NSS Programme in Colleges affiliated to it.

• The Universities having strength of more than 10000 NSS volunteers should have full time programme coordinators.
• The Universities having strength of less than 10000 NSS volunteers may have part time programme coordinators.
• NSS being an academic extension programme the University will provide necessary infrastructure and other facilities like telephone, office and office equipment and secretarial assistance for the smooth functioning of the cell.
• The cell will function under the Vice-Chancellor, the Programme Coordinator, NSS will be in charge of the cell and the main executive functionary.

At college Level

The programme of NSS aims to instill the idea of social welfare in students, and to provide service to society without bias. NSS volunteers work to ensure that everyone who is needy gets help to enhance their standard of living and lead a life of dignity. It will also provide a platform to train and motivate the youth power of the surrounding area.

The college NSS unit always motivates the volunteers to participate in various competitions, programmes and functions organized by University, Government bodies or related organizations. In 2009-10 and 2010-2011, the NSS unit of college was selected to participate in making 40 villages total sanitation free (Village allotted -Behere Group Grampanchayat). In association with Z. P. Thane and Mumbai University NSS Cell, the NSS unit succeeded practically for making one more village total sanitation free in Pali Taluka Dist: Raigad i.e Jambhulpada. In the beginning, villagers were not prepared mentally to accept use of close laboratories but under the guidance of Programme officer, Prof J. S. Hotkar and two consecutive years of awareness during residential camps with door to door interaction about health and hygiene and lane to lane street play demonstrations about the importance of close lavatories fetched Nirmal Gram Puraskar worth RS.5.0 lakhs in 2009-10. The untiring efforts of NSS unit of college with many more activities enable us to seek a position of Best NSS Unit in Thane (Central line). Dr.Sharad Mahajan was awarded with Best NSS Programme Officer award for the year 2009-10 by Mumbai University. NSS volunteer, Miss. Yogini Gawade, second year students of NSS unit was selected for Pre NRD/SRD camp organized in University of Pune in 2018. After successful completion of the camp, she was further selected for Pre NRD/SRD camp organized in Nagpur- 25th November to 04th December 2018. With the successful completion of the activities in this camp, she further got selected for the SRD parade conducted on 26th January 2019. As per guidelines formed by NSS Cell, Mumbai University about the scheme of Book Donation, the NSS unit organized book donation programmes in which books were collected from students and teachers. The volunteers collected books from the donors. They themselves contributed many books in this novel task and worked hard to set up the library for school Children. A school library is opened in ZP school Aajde village to inculcate reading hobby among the children on 23/08/2019. The executive committee was set up for smooth functioning of the Library. The Head Mistress of the school, the programme officers of the NSS unit and the LTP leaders are the members of the library executive committee. The volunteers used to visit school to distribute the books among the students.

Enrolled volunteers-100

Programme officers-02

The subsequent Programmes are organized by NSS Unit in college.

NSS officers and Team

NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME UNIT REPORT 2019-20

REGULAR ACTIVITIES

International Yoga Day

N.S.S Unit of College, organized a one day yoga practice session on 21 June 2019 in front of college Gymkhana from 8:30 TO 10:30 p.m. to celebrate International Yoga Day on 21^st June, Friday.  Participation of various faculties from different departments and students from various faculties made the event at grand success.

Anti tobacco pledge

Anti tobacco volunteers took pledge and other students took pledge on 16 July 2019 in various classrooms.

Tree Plantation Programme

93 trees planted in Umbarli Hill, Badlapur Road, Dombivli 16 July 2019 by 37 volunteers along with a cleanliness programme. 

Swachh Bharat Abhiyan activity

NSS volunteers of K. V. Pendharkar, Dombivli, The volunteers cleaned the area around post office and wiped out the grass in premises, Post office, MIDC, Dombivli, near Ajde gaon, district- thane under swachh Bharat Abhiyan, on 09/08/2019. The volunteers also underwent a door to door campaign to create awareness among the people.

Mahiti Doot programme

Mahiti Doot  portal awareness lectures and apps in download in volunteers phone to awaken the people about various government schemes on 13/08/2019

Cleanliness Rally

Cleanliness rally organized to in adopted village Ajde gaon with slogans and messages on 14/08/2019

Independence Day

NSS Unit of college celebrated Independence Day on 15^th Aug. 2019 with all NSS Volunteers in the presence of principal and vice principals, professors from all the faculties and departments along with entire student community and Programme Officers Dr. Ajaykumar Lokhande and Prof. Neha Salagare collectively Hosted NSS flag.

Book donation Drive and school Library in Azde gaon

Under the university scheme the NSS unit organized book donation programmes in which books were collected from students and teachers. A school library is opened in ZP school Azde gaon to create reading interest among the children on 23/08/2019

Advisory committee meeting

On 31^st August 2019 advisory committee meeting was arranged in the college the meeting was attended by area coordinator Prof. Renu Verma madam SIA College, with other committee members.

Orientation programme on University Foundation day

Orientation programme conducted on 18/07/2019 for newly enrolled NSS volunteers. 153 volunteers participated in this programme. Dr. Santoshkumar Mishra Ex programme officer NSS unit guided students regarding regular activities of NSS.

Fit India campaign

The students took the oath to maintain themselves fit on this day. The volunteers went class to class to give this oath on 29/08/2019

Blood Donation camp

N.S.S. unit of K.V. Pendharkar College organised a Blood Donation Camp on 21/09/2019 in the Gymkhana of college in association with Chidanand Blood Bank, Dombivli (E.) and Rotaract club, Dombivli. The camp was inaugurated by Dr. Principal. Sharad Mahajan and Vijoy Mathew in charge Officer Chidanand Blood Bank, Dombivli (W.) Blood Donation Camp was a grand success as N.S.S. Volunteers placed their best efforts to make it successful by creating awareness of the blood donation and making excellent publicity of the camp as well. Our NSS Volunteers, Students and staff members from different faculties donated 91 units.  

NSS week 24/09/2019- 02/10/2019

On 24rth September Cleanliness activity in college was organized. The volunteers created awareness among the citizens under the plastic eradication campaign. They distributed 50 cotton bags among them. The poster making competition was organized to create awareness regarding gender sensitization and save electricity.  on 28/09/2019 Lecture on environment enrichment by Arun Velaskar. On Gandhi jayanti, a cleanliness programme is organized in college and adopted village, Ajdegaon.

Participation of NSS Volunteers in Bhajan Sandhya

08 NSS Volunteers from college along with leader Vinayak Pandey participated in Bhajan Sandhya programme organized by NSS, University of Mumbai at India Gate, Mumbai on 2^nd Oct. 2019. Volunteers joined the Bhajan Group at Dombivli station and consistently remained with the group throughout the day till evening. 

Gender Sensitization Programme

The poster making competition was organized to create awareness regarding gender sensitization and posters displayed in college and NSS units on 28/09/2019.

Constitution Day

26^th November 2019 was observed as Sanvidhan Diwas by the NSS unit. The volunteers took oath to abide by the constitution.

Aids Awareness rally

The volunteers participated in Aids Awareness rally organized by colleges in Dombivli on 01/12/2019

NSS Residential camp

The seven days residential camp of NSS unit of K. V. Pendharkar began on 23^rd December 2019 at Shri Jairam Sheth Chaudhary Nursing and Paramedical Sciences, Malipada, Murbad in the morning. Ex Programme Officer Dr. Santoshkumar Mishra, Programme Officers Dr. Ajaykumar Lokhande and Prof. Neha Salagare. This programme was inaugurated by principal of the college Dr. Sharad Mahajan. The number of volunteers participated was 94. Male 45, female 49. The camp aimed at engaging in various activities- physical, intellectual, social etc. which were performed by N.S.S. Volunteers for the wellbeing of society.

On the very first day the volunteers were divided into five working groups. This is followed by the cleanliness campaign by volunteers on the camping site. After lunch Dr. J. N. Hotkar guided them on saving and investment through his lecture. The volunteers involved in sport activities from 5.00 to 6.30 which become daily practice. After lunch they were given instructions regarding the next day programme and they expressed their thoughts in the Don Shabd (Few Words) programme which became a consistent part of the schedule of every day. The five groups were also given topics for street play presentation.

24^rth December began with workout and Yoga which became routine for next days consistently. After breakfast the volunteers actively involved in a cleanliness campaign outside the camp site. After lunch Bajrang Sonawane guided them on street play.

On 25^th December the volunteers took up the task of constructing two vanrai Bandhara (small dams) on the river near Devape village. Mr. Raju Koli and his team delivered the Anti-superstition programme in the afternoon.

The volunteers started a cleanliness programme on one of the portions of the camping site on 26^th December. After that all the volunteers visited the Zilha Parishad School in Malipada village where they were actively involved in the student centric activities. The Unit also distributed the book to the school library. They also practiced the street play. In the afternoon Dr. Kailash Jagdev guided volunteers about law.

On 27^th December one section of the volunteers went for cleanliness drive in Malipada village whereas another section of the volunteers went for cleanliness drive in Devape village. They created awareness about the plastic eradication by distributing the cotton bags among the people. On the same day volunteers constructed one Bandhara in Malipada.

The volunteers engaged themselves into street play practice in the morning after exercise session on 28 December. In the same programme the member of Murbad Panchayat samiti Mr. Srikant Dhumal visited the camp. The volunteers groups presented five street plays in the Malipada in the evening. After dinner the campfire programme was graced with the performances of the volunteers.

The last day of camp 29^th December began with Shramdan through a cleanliness drive on the camping site. The seven days of NSS residential camp programme ending ceremony was carried under the guidance of Principal Dr. Sharad Mahajan.

Ekta diwas Programme of Pledge taking was carried out of national unity from class to class  by the NSS volunteers on 31 October 2019.

Voters awareness rally

NSS volunteers participated in voters awareness rally with skit and slogan in AAjde  village on 15/01/2020

Pulse Polio

The volunteers participated in pulse polio programme on Sunday 19/01/2020 in area around Dombivli

Selection of Volunteers in State Level Camp

Saurav Shevde, has completed State level Residential camp on Fit India and EK Bharat Shreshtha Bharat from 12/01/2020 to 18/01/2020 org by Gov of Maharashtra Higher education dept, NSS cell of university of Mumbai and C. D. Deshmukh college Roha, Dist. Raigad.

Sumini Kamat, has completed State level Residential camp on Yoga and Fit India and EK Bharat Shreshtha Bharat from 12/01/2020 to 18/01/2020 org by Gov of Maharashtra Higher education dept, NSS cell of  university of Mumbai and SST college at Mhaskal, Tal. Titwala, Dist. Thane

National Republic day

NSS unit of college celebrated National republic day on 26^th Jan. 2020 by hosting NSS Flag and Enacting Street play on ‘Anti plastic campaign’.

Special achievements of NSS volunteers