In May 1969, a conference of student representatives (of universities and institutions
of higher education) convened by the Ministry of Education and the University Grants
Commission also unanimously agreed that a national-service scheme could be an instrument
for national integration. The details were soon worked out and the Planning Commission
sanctioned an outlay of Rs. five crores for the NSS during the Fourth Five-Year
Plan, stipulating that the NSS be a pilot project in select institutions and universities.
On 24 September 1969, then-Union Education Minister V.K.R.V. Rao launched the NSS
at 37 universities in all states. The scheme has been extended to all states and
universities in the country, and also +2-level institutes in many states.
National Service Scheme is being run in DRK College of commerce, Kolhapur. 100
hundred students from the senior college are registered in the scheme as volunteers.