SHREE SWAMI VIVEKANAND COLLEGE- SURENDRANAGAR

National Service Scheme is often defined as the third dimension of Indian Higher education System. It is after all a student community with the objective of personality development. It is always misunderstood as a platform for social service. Yes it is. but the primary aim is personality development of students. For that the method adopted is social service. Or we can say NSS is focused on personality development through social service..

The concept of National Service Scheme is started in the year 1969 to build sense of social responsibility through teacher and students involvement in constructive service with the motto of “Not Me But You”. NSS volunteers work in rural areas, adopted villages and school to the serving the cause of society through survey, education and health awareness programme. This study involves in identifying the importance, aims and objectives of NSS in higher education which in turn create social responsibility among the students. This paper also highlights the constraints faced by the NSS, and students in the system and also suggests measure to overcome in order to utilise future generation in positive direction.Keywords: Social Responsibility, Awareness, Objectives, Constraints & Generation