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National Service Scheme (N.S.S.)

Key Highlights

• Dr. Prakashchandra has received a State-level Best NSS Programme Coordinator Award.

•  NSS Sevika Ms. Mahek Bhatt from G.I.D.C. Raju Shroff Roffel Institute of Management Studies, Vapi, has achieved first rank in the State-level Gujarat Cultural Elocution competition and received the first prize of Rs. 1,00,000/-

•  Actively managing various social media accounts associated with NSS (National Service Scheme), VNSGU and have posted over 7000 posts in the last two years.

About National Service Scheme (NSS)

The National Service Scheme (NSS) is a Central Sector Scheme of Government of India, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports. It provides opportunity to the student youth of 11th & 12th Class of schools at +2 Board level and student youth of Technical Institution, Graduate & Post Graduate at colleges and University level of India to take part in various Government led community service activities & programmes. The primary objective of developing the personality and character of the student youth through voluntary community service. ‘Education through Service’ is the purpose of the NSS. NSS was launched in 1969 in 37 Universities involving about 40,000 volunteers which has now spread over 657 Universities and 51 +2 Councils/Directorates, covering 20,669 Colleges/ Technical Institutions and 11,988 Senior Secondary School. Since inception , over 7.4 crore students have benefitted from NSS.

The NSS Badge Proud to Serve the Nation:

All the youth volunteers who opt to serve the nation through the NSS led community service wear the NSS badge with pride and a sense of responsibility towards helping needy.
The Konark wheel in the NSS badge having 8 bars signifies the 24 hours of a the day, reminding the wearer to be ready for the service of the nation round the clock i.e. for 24 hours.
Red colour in the badge signifies energy and spirit displayed by the NSS volunteers.
The Blue colour signifies the cosmos of which the NSS is a tiny part, ready to contribute its share for the welfare of the mankind.

Benefits of Being a NSS Volunteer:

A NSS volunteer who takes part in the community service programme would either be a college level or a senior secondary level student. Being an active member these student volunteers would have the exposure and experience to be the following:

•  an accomplished social leader
•  an efficient administrator
•  a person who understands human nature

Major Activities:

National Integration Camp (NIC):
The National Integration Camp (NIC) is organized every year and the duration of each camp is of 7 days with day-night boarding & lodging. These camps are held in different parts of the country. Each camp involves 200 NSS volunteers to undertake the scheduled activities.

•  Rich cultural diversity of India
•  History of our diversified culture
•  National pride through knowledge about India
•  To integrate the nation through social service

Adventure Program:
The camps are held every year which are attended by approximately 1500 NSS volunteers with at least 50% of the volunteers being girl students. These camps are conducted in Himalayan Region in the North and Arunachal Pradesh in North East region. The adventure activities undertaken in these camps includes trekking of mountains, water rafting, Para-sailing and basic skiing.

Objectives of Adventure Program

•  Promote various adventure activities among NSS volunteers
•  Infuse the sense of love towards the various regions of India
•  Enhance leadership qualities, fraternity, team spirit and risk taking capacity.
•  Improvement of physical and mental strength
•  Exposure to new vocational possibilities

NSS Republic Day Parade Camp:
The first Republic Day Camp of NSS Volunteers was held in 1988. The camp takes place in Delhi between 1st and 31st January every year with 200 NSS selected volunteers who are good in discipline, March-past and cultural activities.
A Contingent of selected NSS volunteers participates in the Republic Day Parade at Rajpath, New Delhi on 26th of January every year in accordance with the guidelines and requisition of the Ministry of Defence.

•  Enable the volunteers to interact with fellow members hailing from various parts of India.
•  Experience the tradition, custom, culture, language of all states of India.
•  Provide a chance to develop overall personality of the Student volunteers.
• Constitute the bond of patriotism, national integration, brotherhood and communal harmony.

National Youth Festivals
National Youth Festivals are organized every year from 12th to 16th January by the Government of India, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports in collaboration with the State Governments in different parts of the country. Eminent guests, speakers and youth icons are invited to address and interact with about 1500 participating NSS volunteers during the National Youth Festivals.

•  Make the volunteers aware of the various festivals celebrated in the country
•  Remind the volunteers of the cultural importance of festivals celebrated in our country
•  Provide a chance to the NSS volunteers to interact with the resource person/speaker/youth icons

राष्ट्रीय सेवा योजना लक्ष्य गीत

उठें समाज के लिए उठें- उठें
जगे स्वराष्ट्र के लिए जगें-जगें
स्वयं सजे वसुंधरा संवार दें -२

हम उठें उठेगा जग हमारे संग साथियों
हम बढ़ें तो सब बढ़ेंगे अपने आप साथियो
जमीं पे आसमान को उतार दें -2
स्वयं सजे वसुंधरा संवार दें-2

उदासियों को दूर कर ख़ुशी को बाँटते चले
गाँव और शहर की दूरियों को पाटते चलें
ज्ञान को प्रचार दें प्रसार दें
विज्ञानं को प्रचार डी इ प्रसार दे
स्वयं सजे वसुंधरा संवार दें-2

समर्थ बाल वृद्ध और नारियां रहे सदा
हरे भरे वनों की शाल ओढ़ती रहे धरा
तरक्कियो की एक नई कतार दें-2
स्वयं सजे वसुंधरा संवार दें-2

ये जाति धर्म बोलियाँ बने न शूल राह की
बढाए बेल प्रेम की अखंडता की चाह की
भावना से ये चमन निखार दें
सद्धभावना से ये चमन निखार दें
स्वयं सजे वसुंधरा संवाद दें -2

उठें समाज के लिए उठें- उठें
जगे स्वराष्ट्र के लिए जगें-जगें
स्वयं सजे वसुंधरा संवार दें -2

About SWAYAM

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SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources to all,

including the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.

This is done through a platform that facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms from Class 9 till post-graduation to be accessed by anyone, anywhere at any time. All the courses are interactive, prepared by the best teachers in the country and are available, free of cost to any learner. More than 1,000 specially chosen faculty and teachers from across the country have participated in preparing these courses.

The courses hosted on SWAYAM are in 4 quadrants – (1) video lecture, (2) specially prepared reading material that can be downloaded/printed (3) self-assessment tests through tests and quizzes and (4) an online discussion forum for clearing the doubts. Steps have been taken to enrich the learning experience by using audio-video and multi-media and state of the art pedagogy / technology.

In order to ensure that best quality content is produced and delivered, ten National Coordinators have been appointed. They are:
1.AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) for self-paced and international courses
2.NPTEL (National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning) for Engineering
3. UGC (University Grants Commission) for non technical post-graduation education
4. CEC (Consortium for Educational Communication) for under-graduate education
5.NCERT (National Council of Educational Research and Training) for school education
6. NIOS (National Institute of Open Schooling) for school education
7. IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) for out-of-school students
8. IIMB (Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore) for management studies
9. NITTTR (National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research) for Teacher Training programme
10. INI (Institutes of National Importance) for Non-Technical Courses 

Courses delivered through SWAYAM are available free of cost to the learners, however learners wanting a SWAYAM certificate should register for the final proctored exams that come at a fee and attend in-person at designated centres on specified dates. Eligibility for the certificate will be announced on the course page and learners will get certificates only if this criteria is matched. Universities/colleges approving credit transfer for these courses can use the marks/certificate obtained in these courses for the same.

Credit Transfer

UGC has already issued the UGC (Credit Framework for online learning courses through SWAYAM) Regulation 2016 advising the Universities to identify courses where credits can be transferred on to the academic record of the students for courses done on SWAYAM. AICTE has also put out gazette notification in 2016 and subsequently for adoption of these courses for credit transfer.
The current SWAYAM platform is developed by Ministry of Education and NPTEL, IIT Madras with the help of Google Inc. and Persistent Systems Ltd.

For more details on SWAYAM pls refer : https://swayam.gov.in/

SWAYAM Guidelines, VNSGU SoP And Circular

VNSGU SWAYAM Advisory Committee

SWAYAM Course Offered By Veer Narmad South Gujarat University

For More Details, Kindly Contact:

Dr. Bhavesh Odhavjibhai Vanpariya
VNSGU SWAYAM – Nodal Officer
BOS Member - Labour Welfare
Department of Human Resource Development, Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat
Mobile : 7777995599
Email:. swayam-uno-0153@vnsgu.ac.in