Institutions and individuals awarded in recognition of their contribution in community service by the President

Updated on: Tuesday, November 20, 2012

President Pranab Mukherjee gave away the Indira Gandhi National Service Scheme Awards to institutions and individuals in recognition of their contribution in community service.

Six universities, two upcoming varsities and 30 volunteers were awarded in different categories at a ceremony held at Rashtrapati Bhawan.

Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka was awarded the best university for its contribution in the field of community health through NSS.

In the category of upcoming university, there was a tie and the award was shared between Directorate of Higher Education, Himachal Pradesh and University of Kashmir.

Both these Institutions have made valuable contribution to NSS, despite facing tremendous adversities, the citations read.

Five universities - Andhra University, Directorate of Technical Education, Kerala, University of Mumbai, Annamalai University (Tamil Nadu) and University of Calcutta were given Certificate of Appreciation for their contributions.

Thirty volunteers were also awarded for their dedicated and selfless services in NSS.

National Service Scheme is aimed at developing qualities of good citizenship and spirit of volunteerism among youth and to provide them an opportunity to work with the people in the villages and slum dwellers.

The Scheme was launched during the birth centenary celebration of Mahatma Gandhi in 1969 in 37 universities involving 40,000 students.

Today, NSS has more than 3.2 million student volunteers on its roll spread over 299 Universities.

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