The National Service Scheme was started in Vinayak Vidhnyan Mahavidyalaya from 2008, which affiliated to Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Amravati. The Unit had capacity of 50 volunteers during the first year which has now reached to 100 volunteers since 2022 due to the good work carried over the years. The NSS is part of our academic, social and personal life as it is the third dimension of education. It allows the students to actively contribute their services for the cause of community and the nation, thus helping them develop their personality. Service and attain the traits of a leader of the nation. As such, the NSS is the right platform, where the student- youth of the nation may get to involve with real-life social activities, and thereby become responsible citizen of India.

The National Service Scheme (NSS) had its birth on September 24, 1969, during the Gandhi centenary year. The scheme was first launched in 37 Universities comprising 40,000 students. Today the NSS has become the largest Government organization of students in the country comprising members from the +2 level to the college and university level. The strength of volunteers has now increased to more than 30 lakhs, which makes the NSS one of the largest student forces in the world. The NSS has good relations with different \ government agencies and non-government organizations in implementing its programs for building up community assets, helping the underprivileged people through education and social services. The NSS is useful not only for the development of the students’ personality, but it also helps promote the unity and integrity of the nation by bringing together young people from diverse geographical and socio- cultural backgrounds.

The objective of the NSS is “development of the personality of students through community service.”