NSS unit of the college organised its first one day camp on 2/8/2015 at its adopted village Kodman .Volunteers of unit I participated in this Shramadhana .83 NSS volunteers, 15 senior students participated in the camp. Out of the total participants 33 are first year NSS volunteers. It was a new experience for them. The volunteers along with officers started from Canara College at 8 A.M and travelled about 25 kms to the work site by bus .After the breakfast at 9 A.M the volunteers are divided into 8 groups for the Shramadhana. The president of Kodman village Panchayath Sri Kanthappa Shetty assigned the work for the day to the volunteers.
The work assigned to the volunteers was to clean the sides of the road which was closed by the weeds, which was an obstacle for the free flow of vehicle. We cleared the weeds on both the sides of the roads for a distance nearly of 2 kms .Besides there was mud slide on the road, which was also cleared by us. Nearly 83 volunteers and 15 seniors including NSS officers worked for 4 hours. Vanamahotsava i.e. plantation of trees was carried out by the volunteers on the sides of the road. The work was well appreciated by the villagers.
The morning breakfast and lunch in the afternoon for all the volunteers and NSS officers was prepared in the school premises. The feedback of the students about their experience of participation in the Shramadhana was shared in post lunch session. To relax after the Shramadhana the senior NSS students organised treasure hunt learning game on NSS .The team left the village at 4 P.M in the evening and reached college premises at 5 P.M. All the NSS volunteers participated enthusiastically.
Students involved themselves in community development work. Field work was conducted by the students to understand the problems of the local area.Total number of 80 students participated in the program.
Report by :
Mrs. Dejamma A.
