SPECIAL CAMPING PROGRAMME
Special Camping forms an integral part of National Service Scheme. It has special appeal to the youth as it provides unique opportunities to the students for group living, collective experience sharing and constant interaction with community.
- Special camping’s are organized generally on various developmental issues of national importance. In the past the themes of the Special Camping Programmes have been ‘Youth Against Famine’, ‘Youth Against Dirt and Disease’, ‘Youth for Rural Reconstruction’, ‘Youth for Eco-Development’ and ‘Youth for Mass Literacy’, ‘Youth for National Integration &Social Harmony’. The current theme of Special Camp is ‘Youth for Sustainable Development with special focus on Watershed Management and Wasteland Development. Every year 50 percent of the volunteers of each NSS unit are expected to participate in special camps which is of ten days
Contributions of Special Camping Programme
- Concerted efforts have to be made for a number of years for reconstruction activities in rural areas and urban slums for improving the living conditions of economically and socially weaker sections of the community. For this, the universities colleges land +2 institutions having NSS have a special role to play in collaboration with other Departments and local authorities engaged in Development work. They should adopt a village or group of villages/urban slums for intensive social development, where special camps are organized by them year after year to create tangible and durable community
Objectives of the Special Camping programme
- The primary objectives of the special camping programmes are:-
- making education more relevant to the present situation to meet the felt needs of the communities and supplement the education of university/college/school students by bringing them face to face with the community situation.
- To provide opportunities to students to play their due roles in the implementation of various development programmes by planning and executing development projects, which not only help in creating durable community assets in rural areas and slums but also result in improvement of the condition of weaker sections of the communities.
- Encouraging the students and non-students youth to work along with the adults in rural areas, thereby developing their character, social consciousness and commitment, discipline ad healthy and helpful attitudes towards the community;
- Building up potential youth leaders by exploring the latent potential among the campers, both students as well as local youth (rural and urban), with a view to involvethemmoreintimatelyindevelopmentprojectsforlongerperiods.The
SPECIAL CAMPING PROGRAMME
Special Camping forms an integral part of National Service Scheme. It has special appeal to the youth as it provides unique opportunities to the students for group living, collective experience sharing and constant interaction with community.
Special camping’s are organized generally on various developmental issues of national importance. In the past the themes of the Special Camping Programmes have been ‘Youth Against Famine’, ‘Youth Against Dirt and Disease’, ‘Youth for Rural Reconstruction’, ‘Youth for Eco-Development’ and ‘Youth for Mass Literacy’, ‘Youth for National Integration & Social Harmony’. The current theme of Special Camp is ‘Youth for Sustainable Development with special focus on Watershed Management and Wasteland Development. Every year 50 percent of the volunteers of each NSS unit are expected to participate in special camps which is of ten days duration.
Contributions of Special Camping Programme
- Concerted efforts have to be made for a number of years for reconstruction activities inrural areas and urban slums for improving the living conditions of economically and socially weaker sections of the community. For this, the universities colleges, institutions having NSS have a special role to play in collaboration with other Departments and local authorities engaged in Development work. They should adopt a village or group of villages/urban slums for intensive social development, where special camps are organized by them year after year to create tangible and durable community
Objectives of the Special Camping programme
- The primary objectives of the special camping programmes are:-
- making education more relevant to the present situation to meet the felt needs of the communities and supplement the education of university/college/school students by bringing them face to face with the community situation.
- To provide opportunities to students to play their due roles in the implementation of various development programmes by planning and executing development projects, which not only help in creating durable community assets in rural areas and slums but also result in improvement of the condition of weaker sections of the communities.
- Encouraging the students and non-students youth to work along with the adults in rural areas, thereby developing their character, social consciousness and commitment, discipline ad healthy and helpful attitudes towards the community;
- Building up potential youth leaders by exploring the latent potential among the campers, both students as well as local youth (rural and urban), with a view to involvethemmoreintimatelyindevelopmentprojectsforlongerperiods.The
local leadership generated during the camps would also be useful in ensuring proper maintenance of the assets created as a result of the camps.
- Emphasizing the dignity of labour and self-help and the need for combining physical work with intellectual pursuits, and
- Encouraging youth to participate enthusiastically in the process of national development, and promote national integration through democratic living and cooperative action.
Suggestive list of activities during Regular as well as Special Camping
- The aim of the Regular and special Camping Programme is to bring youth face to face with the community and make efforts to improve their life. The NSS volunteers are to devote about 80 hours in Regular Activities for the development of the adopted village. Special Camping has been conceived as an opportunity to live with that community for 07 days, and experience the conditions and problems of the people. The NSS volunteers need to be inspired to take initiatives for the improvement of their condition. Althoughthe focus of the Special Camps change periodically and regular programmes areorganised in response to the community needs at the micro-level, some broad areas of activities are enumerated below:-
- Environment Enrichment and Conservation: Whereas the main theme for the special camping programme would be “Youth for Sustainable Development”, activities aimed at environment – enrichment would be organised under the sub-theme of” Youth for Better Environment”. The activities under this sub-theme would inter-alia, include:
- Plantation of trees, their preservation and upkeep (each NSS unit should plant and protect at least 1000 saplings);
- Creation of NSS parks/gardens, Tarun Treveni
- Construction&maintenanceofvillagestreets,drains,etc.soastokeepthe environment clean;
- Construction of sanitary latrines
- Cleaning of village ponds and wells;
- PopularizationandconstructionofGobarGasPlants,useofnon-conventional energy;
- Environmental sanitation, and disposal of garbage & composting;
- Prevention of soil erosion, and work for soil conservation,
- Water shed management and waste land development
- Preservation and upkeep of monuments, and creation of consciousness about the preservation of cultural heritage among the community.
- Health, Family Welfare and Nutrition Programme:
- Programme of mass immunization;
- Working with people in nutrition programmes with the help of Home Science and medical college students;
- Provision of safe and clean drinking water;
- Integrated child development programmes;
- Health education, AIDS Awareness and preliminary health
- Population education and family welfare programme;
- Life style education centers and counseling
© Programme saime decreasing an awareness for improvement of the tatus of women:
- Service Programmes:
Depending on the local needs and priorities, the following activities/programmes may be undertaken:-
work in hospitals, for example, serving as ward visitors to cheer the patients, help the patients, arranging occupational or hobby activities for long term patients; guidance service for out-door-patients including guiding visitors about hospital’s procedures, letter writing and reading for the patients admitted in the hospital; follow up of patients discharged from the hospital by making home visits and places of work, assistance in running dispensaries etc.
- Production Oriented Programmes:
- Relief & Rehabilitation work during Natural Calamities:
These programme would enable the students to understand and share the agonies of the people affected in the wake of natural calamities like cyclone, flood, earthquakes, etc.The main emphasis should be on their participation in programmes, and working with the people to overcome their handicaps, and assisting the local authorities in relief and rehabilitation work in the wake of natural calamities.
- Education and Recreations:
- The above is only an illustrative list of the type of activities that can be undertaken.Under the programme it would be open to each NSS Unit to undertake one of these programmes or any other activity which may seem desirable to them according to local needs. The NSS Unit should aim at the integrated development of the area selected for its operation which could be a village or a slum. It has also to be ensured that at least a part of the programme does involve manual work.
Special camps organized by the college in the last few years:
| Academic Year | Name of Village | Duration | Participant |
| 2017-18 | Ansarwada | 08 to 14 December 2018 | 75 |
| 2018-19 | Ansarwada | 24 to 30 December 2018 | 75 |
| 2019-20 | Ansarwada | 18 to 24 December 2019 | 75 |
| 2020-21 | Nil- Covide 19 | Nil- Covide 19 | Nil- Covide 19 |
| 2021-22 | Lambota | 18-24 March 2022 | 75 |
| 2022-23 | Jajnur | 25 to 31 January 2023 | 100 |
| 2023-24 | Limbala | 21 to 27 December 2023 | 100 |
| SR.NO | Year |
| 1 | 2017-18 Special Camp Photographs |
| 2 | 2018-19 special Camp photograps |
| 3 | 2019-20 special Camp photographs |