National Service Scheme   

To combine academic activities with social service and to install a sense of service to the nation a unit of the N.S.S. was started in the academic session 1977-78. Since then the scheme has expanded and there are three unites with a total strength of 100 boys and a women’s wing consisting of 50 girls it work under N.S.S. of Utkal university.

• Applications for enrolment of the different units are invite at the beginning of the session by the NSS officer. A unit consists of fifty student’s and is headed by an N.S.S. officer nominated by the principal from among the members of the teaching staff in conformity with the laws of the university.

• Ability to become a part of community development and social programmes.

• After students are enrolled and allotted a unit he/she will have to attend camps & get involved in other activities as directed by the N.S.S. officers. Three camps are organized in a year for each unit some of the activities of the NSS are :-
  
  
  • a) Cleanliness drive in the community in and around the campus and villages nearby.
    • b) Instilling civic sense in the community and among the local people.
      • c) Literacy drive by such schemes as conductive adults literacy camps and night schools.
        • d) Assisting the authorities in drives against social evils such as drowry system and caste feelings etc.
          • e) Plantation Schemes.
            • f) Schemes for rural Re-construction.
              • g) Any such scheme envisaged by the Govt.