Health Check-Up Camp

NSS, IIT Roorkee organised a free health check-up camp in the village Sherpur, situated on NH-58, on 17^th March, 2013. The camp began at 10 a.m., with the arrival of Dr. C.S. Grover (Eye Specialist, Abhilasha Eye Hospital) and Dr. Sanjeev Kumar (Dental Surgeon, Dental Square, IIT Hospital) who provided their services free of cost for the well being of village people.

NSS volunteers also conducted a publicity drive on the eve of the camp in the villages of Majra and Sherpur. They did door to door publicity in all the houses. The villagers took great interest in the camp, with most of them coming with their entire families. They came to know about their health status in a detailed manner after the check-up. The camp was concluded at 4 p.m.

Both esteemed doctors showed interest in knowing about the activities conducted by NSS. Dr. C.S. Grover congratulated NSS for the efforts being put up to make lives better for villages nearby IIT Roorkee in the best possible way. He also said that he was very delighted to be a part of the camp. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar suggested ways to conduct a much better and more organised health camp for the next time. The Pradhan of Sherpur village also congratulated NSS for its efforts and said that the continuous activities that are being conducted by NSS in these villages have helped a lot in bringing up changes.Villagers also appeared to be satisfied by the services provided by the doctors, and they also had the appreciative words for NSS, IIT Roorkee.

There were some issues that came up to light:

1.Most of the people suffered from Pyorrhoea.

2.Many old people had Cataract disease.

3.A villager told that when they go to chemists with the prescriptions that are provided to them by the doctors, they are sold expired/outdated medicines, because of their illiteracy.

4.This time free medicines could not be provided to villagers.

This camp was like an initiation, a first step. From the next time, it will be tried that we organise a bigger and better health camp, so that the disadvantaged masses could remain healthy.

SRISHTI EXHIBITION

The Annual Srishti Exhibition 2013 of IIT Roorkee was held with an aim to provide opportunities to every section of the hobbies club and other groups in the campus to showcase their innovative works. It was held as a three day event starting from 15^th March, 2013 to 17^th March, 2013. As a part of this event, the RT Education Cell of NSS made an initiative to display some of their best works. It mostly consisted of projects made by middle school kids studying in schools inside and nearby the campus. The event ran from 11a.m. in the morning to 9 p.m. at night.

The exhibition consisted of 9 main projects:

1.The first project featured a way to make street lighting more efficient by making them lit up only when a car was passing by.

2.The second project showed a Newton disk proving that visible light consisted of 7 component colors.

3.This project proved the lens law, which governs the way light change its direction while passing through different types of lenses.

4.In this project Pythagoras theorem was proved using 3D models.

5.This project showed an electroscope which detects charge whenever a charged body is touched to it.

6.This project was a matrix which had a network of electrical circuits which lit up small bulbs when connected in a correct pattern.

7.This project depicted a model of the whole of solar system.

8.It was an alarm whose circuit is completed whenever the water reached the top of the tank.

9.The last project depicted an arrangement of mirror for finding the number of images formed by any such arrangement with a certain angle between them.

The response from the participants and visitors alike was heartwarming. “It was a bigger success than anyone could have ever expected” said Kapil Suyal, the General Secretary of NSS. Overall the event was a great success, attracting more than 500 people and everyone learnt something new and witnessed a series of innovation from the young minds of India.

Skit on Women Empowerment

A skit was organised by the RT Awareness cell of NSS IIT Roorkee in the village of Sherpur on the outskirts of Roorkee. A number of students from RT Awareness cell and some from Prerna participated in this play on Women Empowerment. The play started at around 12 pm after the volunteers from the different cells of  NSS, went on a door to door campaigning spree to create  awareness about the free medical camp which accompanied the event. The volunteers, dressed uniformly in white shirts, participated in the event with great zeal and enthusiasm.

As soon as the volunteers began calling the people to watch the street play, the whole village was buzzing with activity as people rushed out following them to the village square and within no time a crowd gathered and the play started. The play focussed on the deplorable condition of women in the rural areas, where women are discriminated against, with the cases of eve teasing by men increasing and atrocities like female infanticide, rape or dowry related crimes. The message showed dignity towards women without whom the human race is incomplete. The village elders were elated and applauded the students for generating awareness. “We need to be aware about the women equality in modern times especially when the sex ratio is as low as 800 females per 1000 males in some parts of India”, said Ram Prasad, a sexagenarian trader from the village.

The event was a huge success and saw massive participation of men, women and children alike. The volunteers had put in numerous hours of practice for the event and had been working on it for more than a month. In the end their efforts bore fruit with the play sending a strong message on the equality of women among the village folk.

A NOBLE CAUSE : Free Health Check-up Camp

       

   NSS, IIT Roorkee organised a free health check-up camp in the village Sherpur situated on the National Highway- 58, on the 17^{th of} March 2013. The camp began by 10 a.m., with the arrival of Dr. C.S. Grover (Eye Specialist, Abhilasha Eye Hospital) and Dr. Sanjeev Kumar (Dental Surgeon, Dental Square, IIT Hospital) who provided there services free of cost for the well being of village people.

NSS volunteers also conducted a publicity drive on the eve of the camp in the villages of Majra and Sherpur. They did door to door publicity in all the houses.

The villagers took great interest in the camp, with most of them coming even with their entire families. They came to know about their health status in a detailed manner after the check-up. The camp was concluded at 4 p.m.

Both esteemed doctors showed interest in knowing about the activities conducted by NSS. Dr. C.S. Grover congratulated NSS for the efforts being put up to make lives better for villages nearby IIT Roorkee in the best possible way. He also said that he was very delighted to be a part of the camp. Dr. Sanjeev Kumar suggested ways to conduct a much better and more organised health camp for the next time. The Pradhan of Sherpur village also congratulated NSS for its efforts and said that the continuous activities that are being conducted by NSS in these villages have helped a lot in bringing up changes.

Villagers also appeared to be satisfied by the services provided by the doctors, and they also had the appreciative words for NSS, IIT Roorkee.

There were some issues also that came up:

1.      Most of the people suffered from Pyorrhoea.

2.      Many old people had Cataract disease.

3.      A villager told that when they go to chemists with the prescriptions that are provided to them by the doctors, they are sold expired/outdated medicines, because of their illiteracy.

4.      This time free medicines could not be provided to villagers.

This camp was like an initiation, a first step. From the next time, it will be tried that we organize a bigger and better health camp, so that the disadvantaged masses could remain healthy!!!