NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME (NSS)

NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME (NSS)

NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME (NSS) was established in the Birth Centenary year of Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Indian Nation Mahatma Gandhi always dreamt about the Youth of India. Besides, during the 190 years of Foreign Rule our Nation was much devastated. To reform the Country and to make the Gandhiji’s Dream into Reality, the Scheme was launched in our Country. At the very beginning the scheme was started with 40,000 thousand students in 37 Universities of all over India. At present the No. of NSS Volunteers are more than 38 lakhs covering 293 Universities of our Country. NSS aims to develop the personality of the students/youth through the Community Service. The main motto of the Scheme is “Not Me But You”.

In Tripura the scheme(NSS) was started in the year 1976 with 600 students of 6 Nos. of Colleges. In the year 1995 the Scheme was extended in the H.S. School in (+2) level. At present there are 32,600 NSS Volunteers in Tripura covering 363 NSS Units at Educational Institutions including Tripura University, Colleges, Open and H.S. Schools. The NSS Volunteers take part in the multi-various types of activities like Blood Donation, Pulse Polio Immunization, Environment Campaign, Plantation, Awareness Programmes (i.e. AIDS, Disaster Management, Legal Affaires, Consumer Affairs, Anti Dowry, Anti Tobacco, Anti Drags, Human Rights, Health Camps, Maintaining Social Distance programme at Bank, Market, Ratio Shop etc., Food Distribution to the Poor People and beggar at all over Tripura, Self Defense Programme for Girl students, Cleanliness Drives, Gardening, Making Mask & Distribution, etc.) are some of the Activities undertaken by the NSS Units.

THE COLOURS OF NSS SYMBOL :

Red : Red Means youth, enthusiastic and Fresh Blood.

Blue : NSS is tiny part ready to contribute its share for the welfare of the mankind.

There are 8(eight) Sticks means 8 prahars i.e. 8 prahars x 3 hours = 24 hours that means NSS Volunteers are ready to serve the nations for 24 hours.

Blood Donation Festival:

Year – wise Blood Donation Festivals Organized and Blood Collected

A comparative statement of year-wise Blood Donation picture in Tripura

Blood Donation	Year	Festivals	Units Collected
	1998	12	200
	1999	17	610
	2000	27	1237
	2001	38	1472
	2002	31	1876
	2003	47	2102
	2004	78	3061
	2005	71	3365
	2006	71	3582
	2007-08	76	3064
	2008-09	89	3800
	2009-10	74	2590
	2010-11	47	1920
	2011-12	61	2520
	2012-13	51	2670
	2013-14	91	2760
	2014-15	58	2116
	2015-16	87	2492
	2016-17	82	1916
	2017-18	60	2170
	2018-19	66	2314
	2019-20	64	2215

Year-wise contribution by NSS Units to different funds in response to National Call.

Contribution to Armed Forces Flag Day Fund, Relief Fund of Natural Calamity and CM Relief Fund:

It is the practice and commitment of NSS Volunteers & NSS programme Officers that they contribute to different funds to remember the brave sons who laid down their lives to save our country from the enemies.

From the year 1999 NSS Units took the initiative to collect money for the Armed Forces Flag Day Fund, Relief Fund of National Calamity & CM Relief Fund. A brief statistics is given below:

NSS Contribution in response to National Calls	Sl. No.	Name of Fund	Contribution Rs.	Year
	1.	Kargil Relief Fund (for the kith and kin of Kargil Martyrs)	1,21,000	1999
	2.	P.M’s National Relief Fund (for Gujrat Quake Victims)	1,30,938	2001
	3.	Armed Forces Flag day Fund - 02	17,892	2002
	4.	Armed Forces Flag day Fund – 03	54,716	2003
	5.	Armed Forces Flag day Fund - 04	55,001	2004
	6.	P.M’s National Relief Fund (for Tsunami Victims)	1,39,418	2005
	7.	Armed Forces Flag day Fund - 05	85,784	2005
	8.	Armed Forces Flag day Fund - 06	86,101	2006
	9.	Armed Forces Flag day Fund - 07	87,737	2007
	10.	Armed Forces Flag day Fund - 08	92,625	2008
	11.	Armed Forces Flag day Fund - 09	1,01575	2009
	12.	Armed Forces Flag day Fund - 10	97,666	2010
	13.	Armed Forces Flag day Fund - 11	92,346	2011
	14.	Armed Forces Flag Day Fund - 12	71,200/-	2012
	15.	Relief Fund for Uttarkhand ( Natural Calamity held at Uttarkhand)	4,12,040	2013
	16.	Armed Forces Flag Day Fund – 13	1,15,160/-	2013
	17.	Arm Forces Flag Day Fund – 14	94,201/-	2014
	18.	Arm Forces Flag Day Fund - 15	1,00,001/-	2015
	19.	Arm Forces Flag Day Fund, 16,	1,16,278/-	2016
	20.	Arm Forces Flag Day Fund, 17	39,321/-	2017
	21.	Arm Forces Flag Day Fund, 18	25,516/-	2018
	22.	Chief Minister Relief Fund	2,80,573/-	2019
	23.	Arm Forces Flag Day Fund, 19	1,00,001/-	2019
	24.	Chief Minister Relief Fund	2,00,001/-	2020

Indira Gandhi National NSS Awards :

It may be mentioned that NSS Volunteers and Programme Officers of Tripura have been receiving this award almost in every year since 1993– 1994. LIST OF THE AWARDEES :

Name of Award	SL. NO.	NAME OF AWARDEES	YEAR
Indira Gandhi National NSS Awards	1.	Smt. Sila Gan Choudhury	1993-1994
	2.	Smt. Bharati Chakraborty	1994-1995
	3.	Sri Pankaj Chakraborty	1995-1996
	4.	Sri Tapas Saha	1995-1996
	5.	Sri Bijan Debnath (NSS Volunteer)	1997 – 1998
	6.	Smt. Uma Podder (NSS Volunteer)	1998 – 1999
	7.	Sri Debabrata Kalai (NSS Volunteer)	1999 – 2000
	8.	Smt. Pratima Bhowmik (NSS Volunteer)	2000 – 2001
	9.	Sri Sukanta Sarkar (NSS Volunteer)	2001 – 2002
	10.	Sri Balai Saha (Programme Officer)	2001 – 2002
	11.	Sri Kamal Sharma (NSS Volunteer)	2002 – 2003
	12.	Sri Anjanlal Datta (Programme Officer)	2002 – 2003
	13.	Sri Kunal Chakraborty (NSS Volunteer)	2005 – 2006
	14.	Sri Amrit Kumar Bhattacharjee(P.O)	2005 – 2006
	15.	Sri Debasish Debnath (NSS volunteers)	2006 – 2007
	16.	Ms. Dipika Saha (NSS Volunteers)	2010 – 2011
	17.	Mr. Malay Laskar (Programme Officer)	2012 – 2013
	18.	Ms. Mousumi Sarkar (NSS Volunteer)	2012 – 2013
	19.	Mr. Bijoy Krishna Deb (NSS Volunteer)	2012 – 2013
	20.	Smt. Supta Purkayasta (Programme Officer)	2013 – 2014
	21.	Smt. Banasree Shil (NSS Volunteer)	2013 – 2014
	22.	Smt. Tapa Das (NSS Volunteer)	2014 – 2015
	23.	Sri Debabrata Das (NSS Volunteer)	2014 – 2015
	24.	Sri Soumyadeep Bardhan (NSS Volunteer)	2014 – 2015
NSS Awards	25.	Sri Ashish Kr. Bhowmik (Programme Officer)	2016 - 2017
	26.	Sri Shib Sankar Choudhury (Volunteers)	2017 - 2018
	27.	Ms. Puja Debbarma (Volunteer)	2018-2019
	28.	Ms. Supriya Das (Volunteer)	2018-2019

REPORT FROM TRIPURA STATE NSS CELL FOR LAST 5 YEARS FROM 2018-19 TO 2022-23

NSS UNITS IN TRIPURA

Total NSS Units in Tripura – 389 Nos.

Total Volunteers in Tripura – 34300 Nos.

Universities – 4 Nos.

Colleges – 36 Nos.

Schools – 341 Nos.

Open NSS Units – 8 Nos.

District and Sub-division wise NSS Units in Tripura

Sl. No.	Name of Districts	Total Sub-Division	Total NSS Units	Total NSS Volunteers	Total Volunteers in District
1.	West	Sadar	61	5680	9340
		JIrania	21	1800
		Mohanpur	21	1860

2.	Khowai	Khowai	21	1740	3220
		Teliamura	16	1480

3.	Sepahijala	Bihalgarh & Jampuijala	21	1920	4360
		Sonamura	29	2440

4.	Gomati	Udaipur	28	2620	3820
		Amarpur & Karbook	14	1200

5.	South	Belonia	25	2120	5640
		Sabroom	19	1740
		Santirbazar	20	1780

6.	Dhalai	Kamalpur	16	1520	2960
		Ambassa & Gandachara	8	700
		LT Valey	9	740

7.	Unakoti	Kailashahar	13	1100	2160
		Kumarghat	13	1060

8.	North	Dharmanagar	22	1900	2800
		Panisagar & Kanchanpur	12	900
			Total -		34300

Sl. No.	Financial Year	Financial achievement			Physical Achievement
1.	2018-19	Rs. 1,39,36,500			Fund distributed to 336 NSS Units (University, Colleges, School and Open NSS Unit) of Tripura (32600 NSS Volunteers)
		2314 Units of Blood Collected from 66 Nos. of Camps and same will be continued for novel causes of humanity
		2 Nos. Volunteers from Tripura Participated in the Republic Day Parade at New Delhi
		Observance of International Day of Yoga: The Education (YAS) Department, Govt. of Tripura has observed 4^th State Level International Day of Yoga on 21^st June, 2018 by organising Demonstration of Yoga, etc. at all the Block, Sub-Division, District and State Headquarter where 15000 NSS Volunteers have participated throughout the State. State Level NSS Festival: The State Level NSS Festival was organised by the State NSS Cell, Dte. of Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of Tripura from 16^th to 18^th July, 2018. Sri Biplab Kumar Deb, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Tripura Inaugurated the Festival at Agartala Town Hall, Agartala on 17/07/2018 at 11:30 a.m. in presence of Sri Manoj Kanti Deb, Hon’ble Minister, Youth Affairs & Sports, Sri Samarjit Bhowmik, Secretary, Youth Affairs & Sports, Sri Dipak Kumar, Asstt. Programme Advisor, NSS Regional Centre Guwahati, and Sri Udayan Sinha, Director, Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of Tripura. About 1,000 NSS Volunteers of different NSS Units of throughout the State including Cultural Troupes was present during the Opening Ceremony. The Agartala Town Hall was used for organization of Seminar, Motivation classes and Quize competition, etc during the Festival period. Adventure Camp: 11 NSS Volunteers from different NSS Units of Tripura and 1 Programme Officer have been participation in the Adventure Camp, 2018 held at Bhalukpong, AP w.e.f. 30^th October, 2018 to 8^th November, 2018
2.	2019-20	Rs. 1,39,36,500			Fund distributed to 340 NSS Units (University, Colleges, School and Open NSS Unit) of Tripura (32600 NSS Volunteers)
		2215 Units of Blood Collected from 64 Nos. of Camps and same will be continued for novel causes of humanity
		Rs. 1,81,115/- (Rupees One Lakh eighty one thousand one hundred fifteen) only was handed over by Sri Biplab Kr. Deb, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Govt. of Tripura to Brig. J.P. Tiwari (Retd.), Director, Directorate of Sainik Welfare for welfare the Retired Sainik person and Rs. 280573/- (Rupees Two Lakh eighty thousand five hundred seventy three) only was handed over by Sri Monoj Kanti Deb, Hon’ble Minister, Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of Tripura to Sri Biplab Kr. Deb, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Govt. of Tripura (Contributed to CM Relief Fund) on 27/06/2019 (in a Memorable Programme Mega Blood Donation Festival-cum-Seminar & Cultural Programme) performed in the Agartala Town Hall collected from NSS Volunteers of Tripura.
		Participation in different NSS Camp outside the State: 160 Nos. NSS Volunteers and 12 Nos. NSS Programme Officers of Tripura participated in the different North East NSS Festival for the year 2019-20 at Nagaland, Tezpur University, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur and Don Bosco University, Assam.
		RD Parade Camp, 2020 at New Delhi : 2 Nos. of Volunteers namely Ms. Ali Debnath, Govt. Degree College, Teliamura and Sri L.Bicky Singh, Ramthakur College, Agartala have been selected for Republic Day Parade, 2018 at New Delhi.
		23^rd National Youth Festival, 2020 at Lucknow : 6 NSS volunteers, One NSS Programme Officer and one NSS Awardee participated in the 23^rd National Youth Festival, 2020 at Lucknow.
		Different Programme on Covid-19 Pandemic sorry situation, 2020: Maintaining of Social Distancing programme at Ration Shop, Market, Bank etc. Making and distribution of Mask throughout the State by the NSS Volunteers Distribution of Mask, Hand sanitizer, Hand gloves and NSS Jacket throughout the State by Tripura State NSS Cell. Distribution of food (rice, potato, vegetable items, mustard oil, Biscuits etc.) to the Poor people throughout the State. The Open NSS unit organized an Awareness Bike Rally and Postering in the Agartala City on 20/03/2020 during Covid-19 Pandemic Situation.
3.	2020-21	Rs. 1,39,36,500	Fund distributed to 363NSS Units (University, Colleges, School and Open NSS Unit) of Tripura (32600 NSS Volunteers)
		2172 Units of Blood Collected from 69 Nos. of Camps and same will be continued for novel causes of humanity
		For outstanding performance in the field of NSS Activities Ms. Puja Debbarma and Ms. Supriya Das, NSS Volunteers of Open NSS Unit, Tripura Received the prestigious National Service Scheme Award for the year 2018-19 on 24^th September, 2020 at the Regional Centre, Guwahati (Virtual Mood).
		Rs. 1,00,001/- (Rupees One Lakh one) only was handed over by Sri Biplab Kr. Deb, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Govt. of Tripura to Brig. J.P. Tiwari (Retd.), Director, Directorate of Sainik Welfare for welfare the Retired Sainik person and Rs. 2,00,001/- (Rupees Two Lakh one) only was handed over by Sri Monoj Kanti Deb, Hon’ble Minister, Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of Tripura to Sri Biplab Kr. Deb, Hon’ble Chief Minister, Govt. of Tripura (Contributed to CM Relief Fund) on 30/06/2020 (in a memorable programme on Swachata at Agartala Town Hall) collected by the NSS Volunteers of Tripura.
		Participation in different NSS Camps outside Tripura: 27 Nos. NSS Volunteers of Tripura participated in the North East NSS Festival held at Dera Natung Govt. College, Itanagar from 8^th to 12^th March, 2021 under the leadership of 1 No. NSS Programme Officer of Tripura State. The NSS Volunteer participated in the Seminars, Cultural Programme, Sightseeing etc. during the Festival.
		RD Parade Camp, 2021 at New Delhi : 4 Nos. of Volunteers namely Ms. Susmita Saha, BBM College, Ms. Puja Sarkar, Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar College, Sri Abhijit Ghosh, Got. College of Art & Craft and Sri Sagar Banik, Govt. Degree College, Teliamura, Agartala have been selected for Republic Day Parade, 2021 at New Delhi.
		National Integration Camp, 2021 at Agartala: The Tripura State NSS Cell, Dte. of YAS, Govt. of Tripura in collaboration with Ministry of YAS, Govt. of India organized National Integration Camp held at Agartala from 6^th to 8^th March, 2021. Sri Sudip Roy Barman, Hon’ble MLA, Tripura Legislative Assembly Inaugurated the progamme at SBS Yuba Awas, Agartala on 23/03/21 at 10:00 a.m.. in presence of, Sri Saradindu Chaudhuri, Secretary, YAS Department, Dr. Chitrajit Bhaumik, Tripura State NSS Officer and other dignitaries. About 400 NSS volunteers from different States of India (210 Participants) and Local NSS Volunteers were present. Different Programme on Covid-19 Pandemic sorry situation, 2020: To meet up the crisis of Blood of the Blood Banks during the lock down period, the Tripura State NSS Cell and Open NSS Units of Tripura organized 7 Nos. Blood Donation Camp in different Districts. Distribution of Packet Food by the NSS Volunteers to the poor people situated at different road side at Agartala Maintaining of Social Distancing programme at Ration Shop, Market, Bank etc. Making and distribution of Mask throughout the State by the NSS Volunteers Distribution of Mask, Hand sanitizer, Hand gloves and NSS Jacket throughout the State by Tripura State NSS Cell. Distribution of food (rice, potato, vegetable items, mustard oil, Biscuits etc.) to the Poor people throughout the State. The Volunteers of Open NSS Unit, Govt. Degree College, Dharmanagar, Ramthakur College, Subhasnagar H.S. School took part actively in the Spraying of Disinfectants and Sanitizers in the different parts of Agartala, Dharmanagar, Teliamura, Udaipur, Sabroom with the Staffs of the concerned Municipality to clean the atmosphere and to make free from virus The NSS Volunteers downloaded the Arrogya Setu App and helped the People to download this in their Mobile Phones to know the Corona Virus affect nearer them. Painting on the roads on Awareness for COVID-19 and Social Distance To make aware the people on COVID-19, the Open NSS Volunteers of Tripura distributed Awareness Leaflets to the General Public. The Open NSS Volunteers took part in the initial Corona Screening in the different Markets, Public places with the Staffs of the Health Department The District Level Nodal Officers, selected NSS Volunteers of the Districts, other NSS Volunteers and the Programme Officers attended the online Training Programme on COVID-19 & Disaster Management conducted by the NSS Regional Directorate(NER), Guwahati and UNICEF As desire by the Hon’ble Minister, YAS the NSS volunteers of Tripura render their services during Durga Puja Festival 2020 covering entire states to aware the pilgrim to stop spreading corona virus during great festival of Tripura.
4.	2021-22	Rs. 1,54,85,000		Fund distributed to 369 NSS Units (University, Colleges, School and Open NSS Unit) of Tripura (32600 NSS Volunteers)
		2190 Units of Blood Collected from 74 Nos. of Camps and same will be continued for novel causes of humanity
		For outstanding performance in the field of NSS Activities Sri Nepal Chandra Sarkar, NSS P.O., D.N. Vidyamandir, Dharmanagar, North Tripura and 2(Two) Nos. NSS Volunteers namely Ms. Antara Naha, Govt. College of Art & Craft and Sri Surajit Datta, BBM College, Tripura were declared for achieving the prestigious National Service Scheme Award for the year 2019-20. The Award received on 24^th September, 2021 at the Susma Swaraj Bhavan, New Delhi (by the His Excellency the President of India Virtual Mood).
		Rs. 1,04,866/- (Rupees One Lakh four thousand eight hundred sixty six) only was handed over by Sri Sushanta Chowdhury, Hon’ble Minister, Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of Tripura to Brig. J.P. Tiwari (Retd.), Director, Directorate of Sainik Welfare as the NSS Collection for Armed Forces Flag Day Fund-2020 for welfare the Retired Sainik person on 24/09/2021 at Rabindra Satabarshiki Bhavan.
		Participation in different NSS Camps outside Tripura: 8 Nos. NSS Volunteers of Tripura participated in the National Integration Camp held at Jagannath Kishore College, Purulia, WB from 16^th to 21^st December, 2021 under the leadership of 1(one) Team Leader from Tripura State. The NSS Volunteer participated in the Seminars, Cultural Programme, Sightseeing etc. during the Camp. They will proceed from Agartala on 14/12/2021 (08:05 a.m.) and will reach Jagannath Kishore College, Purulia (WB) on 16/12/2021 (Morning) Vaccine Festival (Corona Virus) : Different NSS Units of Tripura participated in the Vaccine Festival at different Health care centre/Club/Hospital for maintain Social distancing, helping old aged people and distributed Mask from 11^th to 14^th April, 2021. Conferring of State Level Best NSS Award: For outstanding performances in the field of NSS Activities, 17 nos. of NSS Programme Officers and 30 nos. of NSS Volunteers were awarded with the prestigious State Level Best NSS Programme Officer and Best NSS Volunteer Award for the year 2020-21. Sri Sushanta Chowdhury, Hon’ble Minister, Youth Affairs & Sports, Govt. of Tripura, Dr. Arunaday Saha, Ex-VC of Tripura & Chattisgarh Universities, Sri Saradindu Chowdhury, Secretary, YAS, Sri Subikash Debbarma, Director, YAS, Brig. JP Tiwari, Director of Sainik Welfare, Tripura, Dr. Chitrajit Bhaumik, Tripura State NSS Officer conferred the Awards on 24/09/2021 at the State Level 53^rd NSS Day Celebration. RD Parade Camp, 2022 at New Delhi : 2 Nos. of Volunteers namely Ms. Puja Debnanth, Ramthakur College, Agartala, Sri Swapan Nama, Ramkrishna Mahavidyalaya, Kailashahar have been selected for Republic Day Parade, 2021 at New Delhi
5.	2022-23	Rs. 1,28,62,500		Fund distributed to 389 NSS Units (University, Colleges, School and Open NSS Unit) of Tripura (34300 NSS Volunteers)
		1392 Units of Blood Collected from 48 Nos. of Camps till date and same will be continued for novel causes of humanity
		Rs. 1,20,602/- (Rupees One Lakh Twenty thousand six hundred two) only was handed over by Prof. (Dr.) Manik Saha, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Tripura to Brig. J.P. Tiwari (Retd.), Director, Directorate of Sainik Welfare as the NSS Collection for Armed Forces Flag Day Fund-2021 on 02/11/2022 at Rabindra Satabarshiki Bhavan for welfare the Retired Sainik person.
		For outstanding performance in the field of NSS Activities Sri Suman Banik, NSS P.O., Subhashnagar H.S. School, Agartala, West Tripura and 2(Two) Nos. NSS Volunteers namely Ms. Riya Roy Chowdhury, MMD College, Sabroom, South Tripura and Sri Tapas Kr. Acharjee, MBB College, Agartala received the prestigious National Service Scheme Award for the year 2019-20 on 24^th September, 2022 at Rastrapati Bhavan from His Excellency President of India. Participation in different NSS Camp outside the State: 70 Nos. NSS Volunteers and 5 Nos. NSS Programme Officers of Tripura participated in the different North East NSS Festival, National Integration Camp and Adventure Programme for the year 2022-23 at Assam University, Arunachal Pradesh, West Bengal and Sikkim. Observance of State Level NSS Day and organization of Seminar on Nasha Mukt Tripura: To Mark the 54^rd NSS Day, 2022, the State NSS Cell organized Programmes on NSS Day- 2022 on 2^nd November, 2022. Prof. (Dr.) Maniak Saha, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Tripura inaugurated the progamme at Rabindra Satabarshiki Bhavan, Agartala on 02/11/2022 at 11:30 a.m. in presence of Sri Sushanta Chowdhury, Hon’ble Minister, Youth Affairs & Sports, Tripura, Sri P.K. Chakraborty, Secretary, YAS, Sri Subikash Debbarma, Director, YAS, Brig. JP Tiwari, Director, Directorate of Sainik Welfare, Tripura. RD Parade Camp, 2023 at New Delhi : 2 Nos. of Volunteers namely Ms. Sunita Debbarma, BBM College, Agartala, Sri Anupam Das, Ramthakur College, Agartala have been selected for Republic Day Parade, 2023 at New Delhi. North East NSS Festival : Tripura State NSS Cell, Dte. of YAS, Govt. of Tripura in collaboration with Ministry of YAS, Govt. of India was organised NE NSS Festival, 2023 at Agartala from 27^th to 31^st March, 2023. 300 NSS Volunteers from 8 North East States was participated.

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