CHANGANASERRRY: The delegates’ session of the Nair Service Society (NSS) on Saturday adopted an annual budget entailing Rs 76.25 crore and an equal amount of expenditure for 2011-12. Among the notable initiatives in the budget were the setting up of a college for management studies and a proposal to establish a civil services training academy in Thiruvananthapuram, thereby entering the professional education sector in a big way.NSS general secretary P K Narayana Panickar presented his 28th budget. Owing to his poor health, he entrusted the job of reading it to G Sukumaran Nair, general-secretary designate. Panickar earmarked Rs 2 crore each for the proposed professional education centres and starting new schools under the NSS, and Rs 50 lakh for starting new courses in the existing conventional colleges. Highlights of the budget included the establishment of 30 human resources centers under the HR department and allotment of Rs 7.83 crores for development of hospitals run by the NSS. The other major announcements were the allocation of Rs 2 crore for assisting the medicare, education, housing and marriage needs of poor community members, Rs 5 crore for the Guruvayoor Retreat Centre, Perunna Tantric Vidya Peeth building and Attingal Working Women’s Hostel and establishment of ayurveda hospitals at Kummanoor and Oachira. It was announced that the NSS is keen to start pre-marital counselling programmes for community members, floating of a matrimonial website, PSC coaching centres and de-addiction centres. NSS is also keen to begin entrepreneurship groups under the social service department, widen the net of SHGs from 15,000 to 20,000 and facilitate Rs 500 crores as loans for women.It also plans to set up 2,000 dairy units and kitchen gardens.
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