Question: When was the National Service Scheme introduced?
(a) 1969
(b) 1970
(c) 1968
(d) 1967
Ans: (a)
- Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Department of Youth Affairs is organizing a Conference on ’Restructuring of NSS’ on 31 March, 2017 in New Delhi.
- The Objective of organizing the one-day Conference is to generate ideas for restructuring of the Scheme, in order to make it more robust and effective.
- All the stakeholders of the Scheme are being invited to the Conference so that a balanced view can be taken. The total number of participants in the Workshop would be around 100.
- National Service Scheme (NSS) was introduced in 1969 with the primary objective of developing the personality and character of the student youth through voluntary community service. NSS was launched initially in 37 Universities involving about 40,000 volunteers.
- Till March 2016, NSS had about 36.58 lakh volunteers enrolled in 39,695 NSS units spread over 391Universities/ +2 Councils, 16,278 Colleges/ Technical Institutions and 12,483 Senior Secondary Schools.
- The structure of the NSS has largely remained unchanged over the years. The conference will primarily focus on making it more useful platform with a view to the changing circumstances the needs of the community and the aspirations of the young students.
Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=160196
http://yas.nic.in/sites/default/files/OM%2013-39-2015%20nyks%2028%20april%202016.pdf