The overall aim of National Service as envisaged earlier is to give an extension dimension to the higher education system and orient the student youth to community service while they are studying in educational institutions.
OBJECTIVES
Understand the community in which they work
Development of social and civic responsibility
Acquire competence for group living and sharing responsibilities
Gain skills in mobilizing community participation;
Acquire leadership qualities and democratic attitude;
Develop capacity to meet emergencies and natural disasters; and
Practice national integration
There are two types of programmers. They are,
(a) Regular NSS programmes under which students undertake various activities in the adopted villages, campuses and urban slums during weekends and
(b) Special programmes which include special activities and a special camp of 10 day duration organized in the adopted villages or urban slums on a theme given by the NSS regional center with the involvement of the local people
The university also has a yoga center where yoga is taught to the NSS volunteers. Yoga promotes physical and mental health. It disciplines the mind and improves the power of concentration.
Each NSS volunteer has to put in 120 hours in a year for both regular and special activities per year and 240 hours for two years.
The NSS regular activity during the period 2003 to 2007 was carried out in the 35 adopted villages around Coimbatore. The following components were planned and executed at the Villages.
Assistance in providing safe drinking water
Preparation of teaching aids, charts play materials and models for schools.
Inculcating proper eating habits, improving behavioral aspects, health and nutrition education, and sanitary cleanliness and ensuring physical exercises for school children.
Socio- economic survey
Tree Planting
Effecting environmental cleanliness, construction of toilets, white washing the schools and painting the black boards etc
The regular activities carried out through NSS by the Undergraduate students
Yoga and mediation for children
Child labor survey
Socio- economic survey
Teaching computer skills
awareness programme on Nutritious food
Awareness Rally on HIV / AIDS, Blood Donation
Gandhi Jayanthi celebrations
Exhibition - Healthy Youth for Healthy India
NSS Day
Rally on avoiding usage of plastics, keeping their environment clean
Eye Screening Camp
The special activities (Two / semester for 3 hours each) are arranged based on the requirements of the community. Blood donation is arranged every year as a special activity apart from others such as rallies and jathas on literacy, vigilance awareness, rain water harvesting, cleanliness campaigns and solid waste management and pulse polio sentization and creating AIDS awareness
The NSS Programmes are undertaken, either under regular or special camping covers four aspects.
The National Service Scheme (NSS) then called National Service Corps (NSC) was initiated on September 24th 1969. It was inaugurated on 3rd February 1970 with two NSS units of 100 volunteers each in the Sri Avinashilingam Home Science College. Over the years, the NSS had been strengthened and at present there are 30 units with 3020 volunteers. The NSS has become a major student youth Programme and it is implementing a number of innovative and community based programmes.
The integration of NSS with the curriculum is a unique distinction of Avinashilingam Deemed University from 1991.
While the scheme has all along been voluntary, educationists have started thinking about incorporating it in the curriculum itself to give it an academic status, credibility and credit. Avinashilingam Deemed University which has a rich heritage in community service and out reach activities had the urge and courage to pioneer in this noble venture and introduced NSS as a core subject in the undergraduate curriculum.
The syllabus for NSS was prepared by the Board of Studies and approved by the University Academic Council. The syllabus consists of theory as well as practical components.
The Revised syllabus for National Service Scheme for 1st and 2nd year under Graduate Majors (Common paper to all majors except NCC Students) and Break up of marks for NSS (Theory and practical Papers) are presented below.
To instill the concept of service in students.
To expose the students to the activities of National Service Scheme.
Break up of marks
Theory Marks |
Practical Marks |
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Semester |
- |
25 |
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II Semester |
50 |
25 |
Field Work |
10 Marks |
III Semester |
- |
25 |
Midterm test |
10 Marks |
IV.Semester |
50 |
25 |
Special Activity |
5 Marks |
Special Camp |
- |
50 |
25 Marks |
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100 + 150 |
Future Plans
Additional Course on Yoga and Meditation
Strengthening research in NSS
Documentation and Publications
Educationally, the curricular component needs to be integrated with the developmental activities in the community; such integration would bring realism to the courses of study, since the subject matter studied can then be applied to life situations. In CSS, the students understand the communities around them and identify themselves with their aspirations, needs, problems, resources and plans, and educate the masses for their development.
The major and unique educational innovation, the University brought forth has been incorporating Community and Social Service (CSS) in the curriculum at the post graduate level with academic weightage and credibility. The pattern has been systematized in such a way tha the entire gamut of PG students and over 25 per cent of the staff body at a time reach out to the community, giving a frontal attack to the problems of women and children in the neighbourhood.
The Home Science Extension Department as a branch of specialization of the Faculty of Home Science has made its mark to establish the credibility of the University as a centre of excellence in community outreach involving students with focus on 'Women Empowerment'.
The major tasks of CSS are cooperatively determined to promote action achievable by the level of maturity of the group, permitted by the available resources and defined in terms of behavioural changes among students and the members of the community.
The CSS should help students
become aware of the family structure, caste and value system, needs and aspirations of the people in the community adopted.
understand how to mobilize the resources available in the community- both human and material.
develop skills in human relations and in working with the community.
inculcate positive attitudes towards women development.
aspire for strong, constructive relationships between themselves and the community, making way for desirable changes and development of leadership.
The students and staff are oriented thoroughly on the objectives of CSS in order to plan, execute and evaluate meaningful activities for the communities. The postgraduates with specific goals, steering for career opportunities with matured mindset are well prepared for taking up organized tasks for sustainalble development of the society. The syllabus for the same is chalked out, keeping in view the challenges they will be facing in the society, the satisfaction they should derive by discharging their duties and responsibilities.
The University has allotted two hours per week for the post graduates for two semesters.
In order to develop the competencies required to guide students effectively and monitor the CSS, the staff in charge of CSS are adequately trained about the community life and programmes of development, techniques of working with people, utilizing the infrastructure and evaluating the students and the outcomes of CSS work.).
Evaluation pattern
Criteria |
Per cent |
Rapport building |
5 |
Planning and preparation |
5 |
Work execution and outcomes |
10 |
Documentation |
5 |
Total |
25 |
Each semester had a weight age of 25 marks attributed for CIA (Total 50/2 semesters), the comprehensive examination carried a weightage of 50 at the end of II semester. The total weightage is 100.
CREDIT - 1 [0.5]
CIA + CE [25 + 25 = 50] + 50 = 100
CIA for two semester
CE at the end of the II semester -2 hours
Email for CSS - [email protected]
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In the year 1968. It was started with 50 cadets. Our university is one of the subunit in the coimbatore group. At present we have 160 cadets with two ANO's. Regularly 40 parades will be conducted per year in our campus. In addition to parades our cadets are attending various camps. To develop the social service among the cadets special activities are conducted every year..
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