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Mannar Thirumalai Naicker College Youth Red Cross Division is dedicated to upgrading health and hygiene. Youth Red Cross student volunteers provide momentous support for the needs of vulnerable people, and it also implicates young people in associations and activities as a way for them to realize their duties on the road toward humanity.

History and Origin of the Indian Red Cross Society

A young Swiss businessman, Jean Henry Dunant, was appalled by the condition of the wounded soldiers he happened to see on the battle field of Solferino, Italy, in 1859 during the Franco-Austrian war. He arranged relief services with the help of the local community immediately. He wrote the book 'Memory of Solferino' suggesting that a neutral organization be established to aid the wounded soldiers in times of war. Just a year after the release of this book, an international conference was convened in Geneva to consider the suggestions of Henry Dunant, and thus the Red Cross Movement was born. The International Red Cross Movement was established by the Geneva Convention of 1864. The name and emblem of the movement are derived from the reversal of the Swiss national flag to honor the country in which the Red Cross was found.

During the First World War in 1914, India had no organization for relief services to the affected soldiers except a branch of the St. John Ambulance Association and a Joint Committee of the British Red Cross. Later, a branch of the same committee was started to undertake the much-needed relief services in collaboration with the St. John Ambulance Association in aid of the soldiers as well as civilian sufferers of the horrors of that Great War. A bill to constitute the Indian Red Cross Society, independent of the British Red Cross, was introduced in the Indian Legislative Council on March 3, 1920, by Sir Claude Hill, a member of the Viceroy's Executive Council who was also Chairman of the Joint War Committee in India. The bill was passed on March 17, 1920, and became Act XV of 1920 with the assent of the Governor General on March 20, 1920. On June 7, 1920, fifty members were formally nominated to constitute the Indian Red Cross Society, and the first managing body was elected from among them, with Sir Malcolm Hailey as chairman.

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Convenor (Aided): Dr. S. Lingeswari,  Ph:9976488915