National Service Scheme (NSS) is beneficial to both students as well as the society in various different means. NSS helps the student to grow individually and also as a group. It makes the students confident, develop leadership skills, and gain knowledge about different people from different walks of life.

 to build sense of social responsibility through teacher and students involvement in constructive service with the motto of “Not Me But You”. NSS volunteers work in rural areas, adopted villages and school to the serving the cause of society through survey, education and health awareness programme. This study involves in identifying the importance, aims and objectives of NSS in higher education which in turn create social responsibility among the students. This paper also highlights the constraints faced by the NSS, and students in the system and also suggests measure to overcome in order to utilise future generation in positive direction.

Objectives: The broad objectives of NSS are to: 

• Understand the community in which the volunteers work
• Understand themselves in relation to their community
• Identify the needs and problems of the community and involve them in problem
• solving processes  Develop in them a sense of social and civic responsibility
• Utilize their knowledge in finding practical solution to individual and community
• problems  Develop competence required for group-living and sharing of responsibilities
• Gain skills in mobilizing community participation
• Acquire leadership qualities and democratic attitude.