Peheutingyibe Herie, a National Service Scheme (NSS) volunteer from St Xavier College Jalukie, Nagaland was awarded the National Service Scheme award for the year 2020-2021 at Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi.

Herie and the other awardees received the awards from the President of India, Smt Droupadi Murmu on 24 September.

He was awarded Rs 1,00,000 along with a certificate and a silver medal in recognition of his outstanding social service through NSS. It was mentioned that Peheutingyibe planted 230 tree saplings and attended 5 blood donation camps.

Herie participated in various activities undertaken by the NSS unit such as plantation drives, health camps, distribution of clothes and books to the poor and other awareness activities on POCSO Act, gender sensitization, adult literacy, plastic free India, green village among others.

He also actively involved in promoting public awareness about different Government schemes such as Ujjwala Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Jeevan Bima Yojana. He also represented the State of Nagaland during the National Finals of the National Youth Parliament Festival 2021.

In a tweet, Herie expressed his gratitude and stated it was a team effort.

“If it were not for all our collective hard work, I would not have made it,” he wrote.

Thank you so much for your congratulation but I cannot take all the credit because it was team effort. If it were not for all our collective hard work, I would not have made it.”
Thank you all. pic.twitter.com/jt3t7S6cvt

— Peheutingyibe Herie (@peheutingyibe) September 20, 2022

Launched in the year 1969, NSS is a Centrally Sector Scheme with the primary objective of developing the personality and character of the student youth through voluntary community service.

The ideological orientation of the NSS is inspired by the ideals of Mahatma Gandhi. Very appropriately, the motto of NSS is ‘Not Me, But You’.

Briefly, the NSS volunteers work on issues of social relevance, which keep evolving in response to the needs of the community, through regular and special camping activities.

Such issues include

• literacy and education
• health, family welfare and nutrition
• environment conservation
• social service programmes
• programmes for empowerment of women
• programmes connected with economic development activities
• rescue and relief during calamities
• Swachhata activities

The Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India instituted the National Service Scheme (NSS) Awards to recognize the Voluntary Service rendered by NSS Volunteers, Programme Officers, NSS Units and the Universities/ +2 Councils in the year 1993-94.

Since then, these awards are given away every year at various levels with the aim to encourage the awardees to work with more dedication for the community development in future.