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NSS to create model villages

By Our Staff Reporter

COIMBATORE, MAY 1. Villages adopted by the National Service Scheme (NSS) of Bharathiar University would be turned into model villages in which development work would receive priority and people would be motivated to improve their standards of living.

This decision was taken at a recent `Review and planning' meeting of NSS programme officers of the university, in the presence of the Vice-Chancellor S. Sivasubramanian, the Registrar C. Subramaniam, and the State Liaison Officer, Karu Nagarajan.

The participants at the meeting decided that establishing model villages would constitute the "form, core and substance" of all NSS activities that would be undertaken during the coming academic year. Bharathiar University currently has 15,500 NSS volunteers including 6,500 women students drawn from five Government colleges, 15 aided colleges and 50 self-financing colleges in Coimbatore, Erode and Nilgiris districts. A total of 155 NSS programme officers provide leadership and guidance for student activities.

During the coming academic year, the NSS plans to continue with its popular awareness programmes on consumer rights, AIDS awareness, rainwater harvesting, energy conservation, legal aid, drug addiction, and reduction in the use of thin plastic that could cause environmental hazards.

Besides programmes to promote blood donation, the NSS volunteers had done much during the past academic year to create assets in rural areas by constructing bus shelters, rainwater tanks and toilets, besides planting saplings and establishing kitchen gardens.

In various places, student rallies were conducted to highlight the need for communal harmony and eradication of untouchability, besides celebrations on important occasions such as National Youth Day, Literacy Day and Population Day.

Among the activities that had turned out to be popular with rural people and disadvantaged groups were tank cleaning, soil testing, formation of self-help groups and creation of awareness on water conservation and preservation of natural resources.

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