Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 1 : An Alumni and NSS Volunteer Vikas Pandita from the University of Jammu was awarded the prestigious NSS National Award. The award was conferred to him by the President of India, Ram Nath Kovind recently at New Delhi.
Vikas Pandita, secured first rank in All Over India merit for the NSS Award. After going through a series of evaluations and scrutiny at various stages right from the University level to national level, he has been selected by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Government of India for this award.
University of Jammu held a function in his honour in which Prof Manoj Dhar, Vice-Chancellor, of University appreciated Vikas Pandita for his speculator achievement which has brought laurels to the J&K UT in general and the University of Jammu in particular. Recognition of Vikas as NSS volunteer is the badge of honour for NSS of Jammu University and it shall definitely motivate other volunteers that if they work tirelessly and selflessly they can also get recognized at the highest level, said Vice-Chancellor.
Prof Jasbir Singh, Controller of Examinations and former Chairman, NSS, Campus Unit and Prof Neeru Sharma, convenor, JU NSS Campus Unit also lauded the achievements of Vikas Pandita who always volunteered himself for outreach programmes.
Vikas Pandita has represented India in South Korea in the year 2019 during the International Youth Exchange Program. He has also represented J&K in 2 National Camps – National Adventure Camp (2015) held at Regional Mountaineering Centre, Mcleodganj, Himachal Pradesh and National Integration Camp (2019) held at Mandi, Himachal Pradesh.
Vikas has also got the Best Volunteer Certificate from the then HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar for the Digital Financial Literacy Campaign in 2017. In SBSI (Swachh Bharat Summer Internship Program) Vikas and his team got second position at State level and first position at University level.
Vikas who belongs to village Khalhar in Kokernag Kashmir is currently working as a Systems Engineer Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. He is also the Founder and chairman of the Seva Foundation.
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