NATIONAL SERVICE SCHEME (NSS)
The NSS has one unit bearing Unit No.158involving strong contingent of 100 volunteers. NSS has started functioning in this institution from 1997 onwards. The main motto of NSS is ‘Not Me but You’. The NSS aims at developing personality through community service. The NSS unit of RIT is headed by the programme officer assisted by a lady staff coordinator and two volunteer secretary’s one each from boys and girls. NSS is assisted by an advisory board consisting of Principal and all HOD’s. It has an executive committee consisting of two student representative from each class.
The activities that NSS take up are divided into two categories; 1) Regular activities 2) Special Camp activities. The regular activities include campus cleaning and beautification, orientation programme, community visit, tree plantation, educational programme, celebration of important days, service to public like road construction, awareness classes on the importance of blood donation, blood donation programme, measures for prevention of AIDS etc.,. NSS Unit organizes special camps with the help of local bodies. The seven day special camp includes Sramdhan, cultural programme in the selected ward of nearby Grama Panchayath. NSS also undertake socioeconomic and health survey in selected villages and remedial measures are suggested based on the data collected. It conducts cultural programmes and invited lectures on environmental and educational subjects. The NSS unit which has brought a cultural change in the campus spread RIT’s glory across the state through its noble activities.
