Youth Welfare and Physical Education


Youth Welfare and Physical Education



(1) Name of the Department : Youth Welfare and Physical Education

(2)About Department:
The Department comprises of three Boards:The activities and composition of Boards are as follows.

(2) Students Welfare Board :
The Board is responsible for conducting various activities related to students’ welfare. These comprise of organizing (a) conducting elocution competitions in Gujarati. (This competition is named after “E Chho Desai Memorial trust. The competition is an inter-collegiate competition organized annually. (b) Another Elocution competition ‘Hariom Ashram’ Sponsored Bhulabhai Memorial Inter-collegiate English Elocution competition., (c) Babubhai Fakirchand Memorial Debate Competition as a part of Youth Festival and “Surat Jilla Sahkaari Mandali” sponsored Essay Competition. This apart the board is responsible for organizing Lecture series on Narmad Jayanti every year.
The board is chaired by Vice-chancellor with 23 members representing colleges and students’ community.

(3) Board for Extra Mural Studies:
The board is is responsible for using its physical and human resource to reach the larger society. The board is responsible for inviting prominent personalities for delivering lecture on cooperation. In this regard the members of Surat Jilla Sahkaari Sangh are placed on board for necessary consultations. The expenditure for this board is budgeted annually to the tune of Rs. 1,00,000.

FACILITIES FOR SPORTS AND CULTURAL EVENTS ON THE CAMPUS
A state of art facilities for the sports and cultural events is available on the campus. Some of the important facilities showcased as follows.
(1) Atheletic Synthetic Track of International standards for 400 meters running with 8 lanes..
(2) Astroturn Hockey Field meeting international standards.
(3) Indoor Swimming Pool with 25 mts length.
(4) Multi-purpose Indoor sports stadium. This caters to indoor games like Basket Ball, Volley Ball. Badmington, wrestling and Table Tennis (10 Tables Simultaneously) among others.
(5) International Standard Boxing Ring.
(6) International Standard Cricket Ground and Stadium also.
(7) For Weight Training Condition Hall 12 x 12 mts. With full wall mirrior.
(8) Among the important facilities, the department also provides coaching facilities for important games like cricket, swimming and athelitics.

(4) Important Annual Events
a. Youth Festival
b. Athletics Meet
c. Summer Fitness Cam
d. Elections to Students’ Councils
e. Extramural Board for bringing the human resources and facilities of the university closer to the society and youth in particular
f. Board of Sports for planning the sports events of and for the university
g. Inter College cultural eventsProgramme
h. Inter university game
i. All India Inter university events
j. West Zone Inter university events

National Service Scheme (NSS) :

Name of the Programme Co-ordinator :: Dr. Prakashchandra

The National Service Scheme (NSS) is a Central Sector Scheme of Government of India, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports. It provides opportunity to the student youth of 11th & 12th Class of schools at +2 Board level and student youth of Technical Institution, Graduate & Post Graduate at colleges and University level of India to take part in various Government led community service activities & programmes. The primary objective of developing the personality and character of the student youth through voluntary community service. ‘Education through Service’ is the purpose of the NSS. NSS was launched in 1969 in 37 Universities involving about 40,000 volunteers which has now spread over 657 Universities and 51 +2 Councils/Directorates, covering 20,669 Colleges/ Technical Institutions and 11,988 Senior Secondary School. Since inception , over 7.4 crore students have benefitted from NSS.

The NSS Badge Proud to Serve the Nation:

All the youth volunteers who opt to serve the nation through the NSS led community service wear the NSS badge with pride and a sense of responsibility towards helping needy.
The Konark wheel in the NSS badge having 8 bars signifies the 24 hours of a the day, reminding the wearer to be ready for the service of the nation round the clock i.e. for 24 hours.
Red colour in the badge signifies energy and spirit displayed by the NSS volunteers.
The Blue colour signifies the cosmos of which the NSS is a tiny part, ready to contribute its share for the welfare of the mankind.

Benefits of Being a NSS Volunteer:
A NSS volunteer who takes part in the community service programme would either be a college level or a senior secondary level student. Being an active member these student volunteers would have the exposure and experience to be the following:

  • an accomplished social leader
  • an efficient administrator
  • a person who understands human nature

 

Major Activities:

National Integration Camp (NIC):
The National Integration Camp (NIC) is organized every year and the duration of each camp is of 7 days with day-night boarding & lodging. These camps are held in different parts of the country. Each camp involves 200 NSS volunteers to undertake the scheduled activities.
Objectives of the National Integration Camp
Make the NSS volunteers aware of the following:

  • Rich cultural diversity of India
  • History of our diversified culture
  • National pride through knowledge about India
  • To integrate the nation through social service

Adventure Program:
The camps are held every year which are attended by approximately 1500 NSS volunteers with at least 50% of the volunteers being girl students. These camps are conducted in Himalayan Region in the North and Arunachal Pradesh in North East region. The adventure activities undertaken in these camps includes trekking of mountains, water rafting, Para-sailing and basic skiing.
Objectives of Adventure Program

  • Promote various adventure activities among NSS volunteers
  • Infuse the sense of love towards the various regions of India
  • Enhance leadership qualities, fraternity, team spirit and risk taking capacity.
  • Improvement of physical and mental strength
  • Exposure to new vocational possibilities

NSS Republic Day Parade Camp:
The first Republic Day Camp of NSS Volunteers was held in 1988. The camp takes place in Delhi between 1st and 31st January every year with 200 NSS selected volunteers who are good in discipline, March-past and cultural activities.
A Contingent of selected NSS volunteers participates in the Republic Day Parade at Rajpath, New Delhi on 26th of January every year in accordance with the guidelines and requisition of the Ministry of Defence.
Objectives of NSS Republic Day Parade Camp

  • Enable the volunteers to interact with fellow members hailing from various parts of India.
  • Experience the tradition, custom, culture, language of all states of India.
  • Provide a chance to develop overall personality of the Student volunteers.
  • Constitute the bond of patriotism, national integration, brotherhood and communal harmony.

National Youth Festivals
National Youth Festivals are organized every year from 12th to 16th January by the Government of India, Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports in collaboration with the State Governments in different parts of the country. Eminent guests, speakers and youth icons are invited to address and interact with about 1500 participating NSS volunteers during the National Youth Festivals.
Objectives of National Youth Festivals

  • Make the volunteers aware of the various festivals celebrated in the country
  • Remind the volunteers of the cultural importance of festivals celebrated in our country
  • Provide a chance to the NSS volunteers to interact with the resource person/speaker/youth icons

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उठें समाज के लिए उठें- उठें
जगे स्वराष्ट्र के लिए जगें-जगें
स्वयं सजे वसुंधरा संवार दें -२

हम उठें उठेगा जग हमारे संग साथियों
हम बढ़ें तो सब बढ़ेंगे अपने आप साथियो
जमीं पे आसमान को उतार दें -2
स्वयं सजे वसुंधरा संवार दें-2

उदासियों को दूर कर ख़ुशी को बाँटते चले
गाँव और शहर की दूरियों को पाटते चलें
ज्ञान को प्रचार दें प्रसार दें
विज्ञानं को प्रचार डी इ प्रसार दे
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हरे भरे वनों की शाल ओढ़ती रहे धरा
तरक्कियो की एक नई कतार दें-2
स्वयं सजे वसुंधरा संवार दें-2

ये जाति धर्म बोलियाँ बने न शूल राह की
बढाए बेल प्रेम की अखंडता की चाह की
भावना से ये चमन निखार दें
सद्धभावना से ये चमन निखार दें
स्वयं सजे वसुंधरा संवाद दें -2

उठें समाज के लिए उठें- उठें
जगे स्वराष्ट्र के लिए जगें-जगें
स्वयं सजे वसुंधरा संवार दें -2