Page dedicated to NSS of APCC (contd-1)

 Volunteers in the camp of Digha, vaccination

 Volunteers with Gurupada Khan, MLA of Digha.

 Volunteers along with local persons including an eighty years old one

 ganges near the camp

 joint camp (APC College and Naihati college at nrishinghapur, shantipur.

 friendly football match at the end of NSS Camp at Nrishinghapur, Shantipur. 

 An old man of eighty, a local person, joined the camp among others.

 Youth against draught

 vaccination camp at digha

 joint camp at Barrackpore, ADM north 24-parganas (Center) inaugurating

 Inaugurating laboratory of creative center of NSS APC College. by D.K.Biswas, director of NSS, Govt. of India.

 Principal S,K,banerjee watering the plants , NSS progr. in College Campus.

 Creating goods out of Worsts ( outdated news paoer)

 Children show organised by NSS volunteers

 Winners of child show on completion of vaccination.

 slide show of pictures

NSS - Acharyya Prafulla Chandra College, Newbarrackpore

In my college career I took two extra academic activities. 1. National Service Scheme, and 2 Mathematical Society with teachers of Mathematics of Newbarrackpore , Madhyamgram and Barasat.
The first one took a longer time than the second one. Morover, it was official and having financial benefits and the second one , is purely non-official and voluntary, a NGO type , to afford benefits to the under graduate students.
The National Service Scheme (NSS) is an Indian government-sponsored public service program conducted by the Department of Youth Affairs and Sports of the Government of India. Popularly known as NSS, the scheme was launched in Gandhiji's Centenary year, 1969. Aimed at developing student's personality through community service, NSS is a voluntary association of young people in Colleges, Universities and at +2 level working for a campus-community linkage. The cardinal principle of the NSS programme is that it is organised by the students themselves, and both students and teachers through their combined participation in community service, get a sense of involvement in the tasks of nation building.
After showing my willingness to the College authority they appointed me as the teacher-in-charge of NSS in 1970.  I had under an orientation in respect of this job. The programme undertaken 
1. Week end programme,
2. Holiday Camp of the college unit, and
3. Central camp (individual unit or Joined with other college)
the following programmes were undertaken.
 Community service rendered by university and +2 level students has covered several aspects like adoption of villages for intensive development work, carrying out the medico-social surveys, setting up of medical centres, programmes of mass immunization, sanitation drives, adult education programmes for the weaker sections of the community, blood donation, helping patients in hospitals, helping inmates of orphanages and the physically handicapped etc. NSS volunteers did commendable relief work during natural calamities/emergencies such as cyclones, floods, famine, earthquake, etc. From time to time all over the country. The NSS students have also done useful work in organising campaigns for eradication of social evils, and popularization of the nationally accepted objectives like nationalism, democracy, secularism, social harmony and development of scientific temper.

Page dedicated to my Sisters

 a slide show of pictures

To start frankly, I entered my career by a late of three to four years  As I had already mentioned that I had lost 2 years due to transition from Calcutta to our native village where there were no school, even a Primary one, during WWII. Hence I was running short of two years from my career. Secondly, I lost one year for want of planning  of my career by taking a service in ISI. Actually I entered service after passing M.Sc. in Pure Mathematics, at the age of 26 in 1959 in Bajali College and 27 in A.P.C.College , Newbarrackpore. Normally, one starts his career at the age of 22-23.
 I did not want  get married earlier because of a request of  my younger sister Mantu,  not to get married before her marriage,who was very close to me and was  my friend , philosopher and guide till her marriage, . She was married to one of my colleague , Arun Dasgupta, , by her own

choice, in 1963. Our friendship with Mantu grew deep and deeper  since I was a student of B.Sc. in 1953-55.  She was a bit extrovert and came closure to me year by year. We were in the habit of exchanging our feelings between ourselves.
I had three sisters, one elder, Sachi (right, pic left) and  two younger, Mantu (left) and Dalu (2nd from left in pic left). Both the younger sisters were very close to me. but the youngest one was a bit introvert and always kept herself close to ( pic -right)Mantu (chordi as she called her) and put anything on query on chordi's shoulder by saying, "chordi jane" (chordi knows it).
We came to Madhyamgram sometimes in 1958/59 when I passed M.Sc. and doing tutions .  Mantu was reading in B.A. in Surendranath College, Calcutta,and Dalu in P.U in Sarojini College, Dumdum.
Myself and Mantu went everyday to Calcutta by train, early in the morning , at about 6 AM by Bongaon local because her College usually started at 7 AM. We had our previous rented residence where I would have taken rest in the noon. I took my lunch in a mess  of our ex-teacher , Abinash Babu,of Bowbazar High School, by a mutual arrangements. From morning till night I was coaching students od different classes from S.F. to B.Sc. At that time I had 5-6 tuitions, distributed in morning and evening. At the noon time, I used to read news papers and applying for jobs Ultimately I got one in Bajali College , Pathsala. and joined in August , 1959.