== <span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://www.mits.ac.in/nss_in.html <b>5.ENGAGING WITH REGIONAL AND LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS:</b>]</span> ==
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"> <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Along with Innovation & Entrepreneurship, MITS concentrates on community service oriented activities. As part of it, NSS(National Service Scheme) has been introduced in the year of 2003. The main objective of this scheme is education and service to the community and by the community. MITS under this cell has been participating in all societal activities. It helps the students to communicate with the society and also students often go the rural areas and try to develop a technocratic environment and help the underprivileged people to develop themselves.</span></span>[[File:NSS.png|thumb|NSS.pngright|150px]]</span>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-b83e82e8-28f6-92e7-cf62-fb7683731bd7"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It adopts villages and the NSS volunteers undertake various activities in those villages which generally include eradication of illiteracy, watershed management and wasteland development, health nutrition and hygiene, campaign against social evils etc., We also have MITS Social Responsibility(MSR) club, which also looks over of all these activities under NSS.</span></span></span>
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<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">[https://www.mits.ac.in/nss_in.html National Service Scheme<b>(NSS)</b>] has been introduced at MITS in 2003 as a part of the academic programs and since then NSS has been functioning as a regular feature in the realm of our academics. </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Objective</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">of NSS is Education and Service to the community and </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">by</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">the community. It’s students’ programme where we cater to the need of the community, as and when required, it will also help the students to communicate with the society. It helps students to improve various skills how to interact and deal with society and helps them to learn about what’s going on in society and gives them </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">a exposure</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">to explore. The rural projects generally include the working of NSS volunteers in adopted villages for </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">eradication</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">of illiteracy, watershed management and wasteland development, agricultural operations, health, nutrition etc. Beyond </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">academics</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">it is also important to have </span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">social</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">responsibility for a student to be a good citizen of tomorrow.</span></p>
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