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The Vice President, Shri Bhairon Singh Shekhawat has said that the youth of the country can play pivotal role in poverty alleviation programmes by adopting one family living below the poverty line and ensuring that it gets what all is due to the members of this family through various schemes of the Government.
Shri Shekhawat was addressing here today the National Service Scheme (NSS) Volunteers who are scheduled to participate in the Republic Day Parade and presently camping at Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
The Vice President said that the Volunteers, while helping the adopted poor families, can also fight corruption by identifying the corrupt people who create obstacles in execution of welfare schemes at the grass-roots level. Shri Shekhwat said that those who expose corrupt practices should also be rewarded. He also said that the youth should also take the responsibility of teaching the members of the family adopted by them.
Shri Shekhawat applauded the role played by the NSS Volunteers in the Tsunami affected areas and also for their participation in several social campaigns like literacy, drives against social evils etc.
Addressing the Volunteers, the Union Minister of Youth Affairs & Sports Shri Sunil Dutt said that the NSS Volunteers have always participated in social work with full vigour and their participation in literacy campaigns, forest protection, water conservation etc. is worth emulating. He especially mentioned the cleaning up of Sukhna Lake in Chandigarh and Hussaini Sagar Lake in Hyderabad where NSS Volunteers participated with full strength and helped in reviving these two precious water bodies.
Smt. Meenaxi Anand Chaudhry, Secretary, Youth Affairs & Sports informed that 80 girls and 80 boys of 86 Universities, 111 Colleges and 25 Senior Secondary Schools from 27 States and Union territories are participating in the NSS Republic Day Camp.
At present there are 2.3 million students enrolled with NSS in 179 Universities across the country. Today NSS is the largest youth organisation in the world.
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