{"id":15457,"date":"2023-10-03T09:51:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T04:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=15457"},"modified":"2025-04-03T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T05:25:34","slug":"national-service-scheme-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-service-scheme-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"National Service Scheme Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About National Service Scheme Awards<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These awards were instituted in\u00a0<strong>the year 1993-1994<\/strong>. Since then, these awards are given away every year at various Levels.<\/li>\n<li>The Ministry of Youth Affairs &amp; Sports, Department of Youth Affairs confers\u00a0<strong>every year the National Service Scheme Award.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Objectives<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>To recognize\u00a0<strong>outstanding contribution by NSS student volunteers<\/strong>, NSS Programme Officers and the Programme Coordinators in community service.<\/li>\n<li>To encourage young NSS student volunteers to develop their personality through community service.<\/li>\n<li>To\u00a0<strong>encourage the Programme Officers and the Programme Coordinators<\/strong> of NSS for catering the needs of the National Service Scheme through the NSS volunteers.<\/li>\n<li>To motivate NSS Volunteers for continuing their selfless service towards community work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What is the National Service Scheme?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>Central Sector Scheme<\/strong> of Government of India.<\/li>\n<li>It provides opportunity to the student youth of 11th &amp; 12th Class of schools at +2 Board level and student youth of Technical Institution, Graduate &amp; Post Graduate at colleges and University level of India to take part in\u00a0<strong>various Government led community service activities &amp; programmes.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Motto:\u00a0<\/strong>The motto of National Service Scheme\u00a0<strong>is NOT ME BUT YOU<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry:<\/strong> Ministry of Youth Affairs &amp; Sports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is the Central Sector Scheme?<\/h3>\n<p>Central Sector Scheme&#8221; typically refers to government-funded development schemes or programs in India. These schemes are fully funded by the central government, and they are implemented by various central ministries or departments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1961944\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>President of India presents National Service Scheme Awards<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Service Scheme Awards  were instituted in the year 1993-1994. Since then, these awards are given away every year at various Levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15457","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}