To combine academic activities with social service and to install a sense of service to the nation a unit of the N.S.S. was started in the academic session 1977-78. Since then the scheme has expanded and there are three unites with a total strength of 100 boys and a women's wing consisting of 50 girls it work under N.S.S. of Utkal university.

After students are enrolled and allotted a unit he/she will have to attend camps & get involved in other activities as directed by the N.S.S. officers. Three camps are organized in a year for each unit some of the activities of the NSS are :-

• Cleanliness drive in the community in and around the campus and villages nearby.
• Instilling civic sense in the community and among the local people.
• Instilling civic sense in the community and among the local people
• Plantation Schemes.
• Schemes for rural Re-construction.
• Any such scheme envisaged by the Govt.