NSS unit of Rohini College of Engineering and Technology,Palkulam organized a special camp in the adopted village, Agasteeswaram from 24.09.2018 to 30.09.2018. The objective of this camp was to begin the interface with community, rapport building with community members and developing the long term institutional relation with the community and contribution to the upliftment of people .The Volunteers of the NSS unit performed many other activities – awareness programmes as literacy, tree plantation, health and hygiene,etc.,

Day - 1 The forenoon session of the Day 1 began with a Procession by volunteers in the village. Volunteers rallied into the streets of the village to create awareness among the villagers about the ensuing special camp programme in their village for a period of one week. This was followed by an inauguration with the august presence of honourable chairman Shri K. Neela Marthandan, Vice Chairman Dr. N. Mohan Neela Judith, Managing Director Dr. N. Neela Vishnu, Principal Dr. R. Rajesh. The programme was started with lightening the lamp and NSS song. NSS Programme Co-ordinator Dr.Senthil Vel Murugan welcomed the gathering and emphasized the role of NSS in the community service. The inaugural speech was delivered by Respected Principal. AKVT Trustee Prof. Karunakaran hoisted the flag.Kanyakumari Dist Sub Inspector Mr. K Muthu, Dr. Janet General Physician, Govt. Hospital Kanyakumari are the Guest of Honour, who delivered the importance of NSS in the Community Service. Prof. Esther Kanmani delivered the vote of thanks followed by that Road Maintence work and Govt. Hospital, Kanyakumari Campus was cleaned by the NSS Volunteers. Day 1 was coordinated by Prof. Loganathan and Prof. Esther Kanmani.

Day - 2 In the dawn of the second day, volunteers started their campaign with flag hoist and NSS song. Physical training was given by Physical Director Prof. Ganeshan followed by that, road maintenance work was carried out in and around the village. The day ended with the moral guidance of Prof. Jeyakumar, Head –Dept.of EEE, Rohini College of Engineering and Technology .He delivered talk on “The Role of Youth in Community Service ”. As a treat for their eyes, cultural programme was arranged and the coordinators Prof. Vetrivel and Prof. Suthamalli was thanked by the students and NSS Coordinator.

Day - 3 The Third Day of the campaign was started with flag hoist and NSS song.Physical training was given by Prof.Selva Mary,Asst.Professor,Dept. of English followed by that, Environmental Pollution and The Quality of water was tested in Agasteeswaram Village.Being an engineers, Students created an awareness about Computer Technology and initiated the digitalization of all the Paper works and Cleaned the Agateeswaram School campus. A Brain storming session was organized. Thoughts and ideas were exchanged on leadership quality and Team Spirit and importance of collective responsibility in achieving common goals of community service, conducted by Prof. Jebash Samuel, Placement Officer, Rohini College of engineering and Technology, Special address was given by Dr. Mathu Suresh V.S and Dr. S. Surendhran, Head-Dept. of Sociology, ST Hindu College, Nagercoil, Day 3 was successfully coordinated by Prof. Ajan, Dept. of Civil Engineering, Prof. Naveen Jass, Dept of Mechanical Engineering and Mrs. Uma.

Day – 4 With the usual Flag Hoist and NSS Song the day was started and Physical Trainingb was given by Prof. Manoj, Assistant Professor, Dept.of Mechanical Engineering and delivered a fruitful talk on “The Role of Engineering Department in Agriculture”. The churches of the village was cleaned and Volunteers collected about 200 saplings from nearby Nursery and brought them into the village and started planting saplings. All the volunteers formed several groups of 4-5 and were advised to plant two saplings in the gardens, courtyards and safe places of every house in the village. Encouraged the volunteers and villagers by joining the plantation programme. In the afternoon an awareness programme on environment and global warming was conducted and Dr. E. Sreedevi delivered a talk on the same. It was also felt that a sense of awareness is arising in the community. The fourth day was coordinated by Prof. Surendhar, Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Prof.Radhika, Dept. of Science & Humanities.

Day – 5 The subject of fifth day camp was creation of healthy society through community health services. The physical training was given by Prof. Joe Britto, Dept. of Mathematics.Special guest from Govt. Primary Health Centre Officer Dr.Saraswathi M and Agatesswaram Health Superintendent Mr.Varghese Raja gave an Awareness talk to build a healthy society. Knowing the importance of Yoga, Incharge of Vivekananda Kendra Mr. C. Vijaya Raghavan practiced Yoga with the volunteers. Followed by that, Prof. Hari Gopala Krishnan, Head-Dept. of Civil Engineering shared his views, thoughts on Geographic Information Systems with the students and the village people. Before dinner, a meeting was organized by the Programme Coordinator to discuss about the days happening and planning for the next day. The days coordinator Prof. Nagarajan, Dept. of ECE and Prof. Arjun, Department of Mechanical Engineering was thanked by NSS Coordinator.

Day – 6 The Six day began with flag hoist and Physical Training by Prof.Ganeshan. Under the guidance of Literary Association of Rohini College of Engineering and Technology,Prof Jebash Samuel conducted Debate. After lunch,Training on First Aid and Disaster Management was given by Disaster Management Team, Kanyakumari District and highlighted the importance of “Team Building” by giving various group activities to the NSS Volunteers. It was an interactive session for the students . A special talk was given by Prof. Sahila Devi, Head- Dept. of Computer Science on Cyber crime and Information Security followed by that Special Guest Dr. Senthil Kumar, Founder of Sriram Cancer Trust, Nagercoil highlighted the importance of Cardiac Care to live a hale and healthy life to the village people. The Volunteers discussed the days output with programme officer and planned for the next day. The sixth day camp was coordinated by Prof. Murugan, Prof. Benesh Selva Nesan, Prof. George Mary Aarthi, Prof. Pon Selvan.

Day – 7 The seventh day was the closing day of the camp. In continuation to previous day programme, The daily routine was done under the guidance of Prof. Sudankumar. Forenoon session was arranged with a Free Health Checkup Camp by Rohini College of Engineering and Techniology in coordination with Rotary club of Nagercoil.This event was inaugurated by the board of directors of RCET and AVKT Trustee Prof. Karunakaran. Prof. Vetrivel delivered the welcome address and Dr. R. Rajesh, NSS Coordinator Dr. Senthil Vel Murugan, Administative Officer Prof. Vijaya Karthikeyan, Accounts Manager Mr.Ganesh AKVT trustee presided over the function.Top most priority was given to Free basic treatment to underprivileged rural people. A public announcement was made and door to door communication done by our volunteers to inform people to avail free health services. The response was excellent and about 150 village people came forward to utilize the service. Dr. Thanasekar, Ophthalmologist, Govt. Hospital, Kanyakumari, Dr. Jeyakumar, Ramamoorthy hospital, Nagercoil, Dr.Manimegalai, M.L.Hospital, Nagercoil provided free consultation for Agasteeswaram Village. Prof. Radhika delivered the vote of thanks . The second session of the day was allotted to valedictory function, valuable talk on Energy Protection was given by Dr.Indhiran S, Head-Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, RCET. The village Head, People was overwhelmed by the service extended by the institution and promised to extend all possible support to the long term vision of the College-village collaboration in view of making strong intervention required for the village betterment and development. NSS Program Coordinator profusely thanked the volunteers, program officer and the Management of the college for their various service activities and assured all sorts of co-operation in their future operations. The session concluded by vote of thanks and National Anthem.