NSS Programmes at Royal Global University: An Overview

Established in January 2022, the National Service Scheme (NSS) at Royal Global University has organized a diverse array of community-oriented programmes, primarily focused on village adoption initiatives, health promotion, education, and social awareness in adopted villages including Pamohi, Deuchutal, Lokhra, Tetelia, and Pub-Boragaon. These programmes emphasize volunteerism, skill-building, and sustainable development. Health and wellness camps prioritize preventive healthcare, screenings, and awareness to enhance community well-being, including blood donation drives that collected numerous units at the RGU Campus, health checkup camps with free screenings in collaboration with SWAGAT Hospital for staff and students, and specialized awareness sessions on AIDS and substance abuse screening. Awareness and education programmes sensitize communities to social, environmental, and digital issues through camps, quizzes, and workshops, such as media literacy and fake news awareness outreach at Banikant Memorial School, thematic sessions on road safety, digital literacy for women, and good touch/bad touch, along with nutrition and child development efforts like health and nutrition quizzes and ICDS/MDM awareness.

Community outreach and development initiatives involve direct engagement for needs assessment, surveys, and empowerment in these adopted villages, encompassing participatory rural appraisals to map community resources, surveys and assessments including household and community health surveys, and career counselling and skill workshops at Lokhra MV School along with chocolate-making workshops. Educational and tutoring initiatives aim at youth and schoolchildren to foster learning and critical thinking, featuring tutoring programmes at LP School Deochutal, science outreach with interactive sessions at Tetelia and Physics demos at Amranga Barihat HS School, as well as artistic events like drawing competitions on community issues and poem recitation and quiz sessions. Environmental and cleanliness drives promote sustainability and hygiene in public spaces, including cleanliness drives at Lokhra and Deepor Beel and environmental awareness on water security and Jal Jeevan Mission along with sessions on plastic usage and pollution. Cultural and social support activities build rapport and provide aid to vulnerable groups, such as visits to old age homes with food and emotional support at Helping Hands and World Health Day events at Tetelia, alongside YUVA Samvad youth governance dialogues. Overall, these programmes have engaged over 500 participants and beneficiaries across campuses and villages, yielding impacts like improved health literacy, substantial blood donations, and enhanced community resilience, with collaborations across NSS units ensuring broad involvement and alignment with goals of social responsibility and inclusive growth.