Mayor inaugurates Special NSS Camp at Panjab University

School News Network
Chandigarh, December 26 2018

The first seven days special NSS camp was inaugurated by Davesh Moudgil, Mayor, Chandigarh, who is also the first citizen of the city beautiful at Panjab University, Chandigarh. While inaugurating the camp, he shared his valuable thoughts with the NSS Volunteers. 

He said that the youth of the entire country should sensibly use the Right to Vote given to him/her by our country. If you want to participate in the process of change and development, you should exercise this right in the correct manner. He motivated the youngsters by sharing his personal examples of the hardships faced during the struggle of his political career. He also warned the youth against the misuse of social media. He laid emphasis on how to make our city beautiful on the top of Swachhta Ranking and for this, he urged the young people to join the Swachh Bharat campaign. He laid focus on the huge demographic dividend available in our country too. Prof Raj Kumar, Vice-Chancellor acted as the Guest of Honour on this occasion and he also motivated the NSS volunteers to come forward and take the lead in the making Panjab University as the most clean and green University of the country. He also applauded the efforts made by the NSS during the last few months. He said that the time has come to convert India, into a developed country from a developing one. This can be only possible through the maximum participation of the youth and NSS is the exact platform to do so. On this occasion Prof Karamjeet Singh, Registrar, also acted as a Guest of Honour, and also shared his thoughts with the audience. While sharing his valuable thoughts with the NSS Volunteers, he gave them a lesson to learn more from the community members around them. He said that whether these older people were not formally educated enough but they have a lot of things to share with the youngsters about how to make a secure and safe future. Prof Dvinder from Department of Laws and Prof Shivani Sharma, Co-ordinator, Swachh Bharat Abhiyaan, Panjab University, Chandigarh also graced the occasion. Dr. Navdeep Sharma, Programme Co-ordinator, NSS appraised the audience about the activities conducted through-out the year. She appealed the volunteers for their active participation in the seven days special camp. She also shared that it is expected that 400 NSS volunteers will be attending the camp in the supervision of the following NSS Programme officers which include Dr Purva Mishra, Nirmal Singh, Amrit Kaur,  Anupam Bahari, Jessu Jakaran Singh, Ikreet Singh, Manjushri Sharma and Gaurav Gaur. Later part of the day, the NSS volunteers were made aware about the Mission, Vision and goals of NSS. The focus was laid on the NSS motto, which states “NOT ME BUT YOU”.