Types of Activities

Environment Enrichment and Conservation

• Plantation of trees, their preservation and upkeep (each NSS unit should plant and protect at least 1000 saplings);
• Creation of NSS parks/gardens.
• Construction & maintenance of village streets, drains, etc. so as to keep the environment clean;
• Construction of sanitary latrines etc.
• Cleaning of village ponds and wells;
• Popularization and construction of Gobar Gas Plants, use of non-conventional energy;
• Environmental sanitation and disposal of garbage & composting;
• Prevention of soil erosion, and work for soil conservation,
• Watershed management and wasteland development
• Preservation and upkeep of monuments, and creation of consciousness about the preservation of cultural heritage among the community.

Health, Family Welfare and Nutrition Programme:

• Programme of mass immunization;
• Working with people in nutrition programmes with the help of Home Science and medical college students;
• Provision of safe and clean drinking water;
• Integrated child development programmes;
• Health education, AIDS Awareness and preliminary health care.
• Population education and family welfare programme;
• Life style education centres and counseling centres.

Programmes aimed at creating an awareness for improvement of the status of women:

• Programmes of educating people and making them aware of women's rights both constitutional and legal;
• Creating consciousness among women that they too contributed to economic and social well-being of the community;
• Creating awareness among women that there is no occupation or vocation which is not open to them provided they acquire the requisite skills; and
• Imparting training to women in sewing, embroidery, knitting and other skills wherever possible.
• Beti Bachao Beti Padhao.

Social Service Programmes:

• Work in hospitals, for example, serving as ward visitors to cheer the patients, help the patients, arranging occupational or hobby activities for long term patients, guidance service for out-door-patients including guiding visitors about hospital's procedures, letter writing and reading for the patients admitted in the hospital; follow up of patients discharged from the hospital by making home visits and places of work, assistance in running dispensaries etc.
• Work with the organisations of child welfare;
• Work in institutions meant for physically and mentally handicapped;
• Organising blood donation, eye pledge programmes;
• Work in Cheshire homes, orphanages, homes for the aged etc.;
• Work in welfare organisations of women;
• Prevention of slums through social education and community action;

Production Oriented Programmes

• Working with people and explaining and teaching improved agricultural practices;
• Rodent control land pest control practices;
• Weed control;
• Soil-testing, soil health care and soil conservation;
• Assistance in repair of agriculture machinery;
• Work for the promotion and strengthening of cooperative societies in villages;
• Assistance and guidance in poultry farming, animal husbandry, care of animal health etc.;
• Popularization of small savings and
• Assistance in procuring bank loans

Relief & Rehabilitation work during Natural Calamities: 

• assisting the authorities in distribution of rations, medicine, clothes etc.;
• assisting the health authorities in inoculation and immunization, supply of medicine etc.;
• working with the local people in reconstruction of their huts, cleaning of wells, building roads etc.;
• assisting and working with local authorities in relief and rescue operation;
• collection of clothes and other materials, and sending the same to the affected areas;

Education and Recreations

• adult education (short-duration programmes);
• pre-school education programmes;
• programmes of continuing education of school drop outs, remedial coaching of students from weaker sections;
• work in creches ;
• participatory cultural and recreation programmes for the community including the use of mass media for instruction and recreation, programmes of community singing, dancing etc.;
• organisation of youth clubs, rural land indigenous sports in collaboration with Nehru Yuva Kendras;
• programmes including discussions on eradications of social evils like communalism, castism, regionalism, untouchability, drug abuse etc.;
• non-formal education for rural youth and
• legal literacy, consumer awareness.
• Swacch Bharat Mission
• Digital awareness,
• (XII) Voter awareness.