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Community Outreach Programmes Goal: 1) Reach out to neighboring communities in order to generate awareness among community people regarding health issues and behaviors. 2) To involve the students in health awareness regarding communicable, noncommunicable diseases, geriatric health problems, personal hygiene, mother and child care, adolescent care. 3) To sensitize nursing students about bio medical waste management in community. 4) To organize different health camps like mother and child health, women’s day health camp and in-service education programme for Anganwadi and ASHA workers, in covid 19 vaccination awareness , school health camp for school teachers and students and also for care takers of elderly at panchvati old age home as regular activities. 5) To organize health camp in Prayas Juvenile Aid Centre (JAC) for school dropout children as regular features. The Context: Community-based health care includes services delivered by a broadly defined community health workforce, according to their training and capacity, encompassing a range of health workers, lay people and professional, formal and informal, as well as facility-based personnel who support and supervise them and provide outreach services and campaigns. Nursing students are exposed to such health care activities so that they become responsible citizens and get to know about community’s social and health issues and their responsibility towards these issues Also, this gives them opportunity to identify and interact and collaborate with local formal and informal leaders and NGOs working in the area. The Practice: All community outreach programs like health talks, health camps and nutrition based programs are organized on regular basis by students group under supervision of faculty members. a. Schools are visited in the vicinity of rural and urban health centres and school children are assessed and taught first aid and other healthy habits and behaviours. b. Students of all nursing courses give health talks on different health aspects and organize different health camps on prevention of non-communicable and communicable diseases, nutrition based programmes and other health problems. Evidence of Success: i) As an outcome of the programme, 100 participants join in camp and total 200 patients benefited for the health camp in different MCH problems. 4 ii) Total approximately 400 health talks are given each year by the students in rural and urban health centres and their catchment areas during different health awareness sessions under the guidance of the faculty. iii) Total approximate 50 adolescents participated in the programme. Problems Encountered and Resource Required: All the health programs are funded by students and teachers collectively. Therefore, fund scarcity becomes a problem in organizing all above mentioned community outreach activities.