The Order on the March November 2020
News & Notes from Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
The Vedanta Kesari
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The Directorate of School Education, Government of West Bengal, presented the Best School Award to our Malda school on 5 September, Teachers’ Day. The award consisted of a trophy and a sum of one lakh rupees. Rajkot Ashrama held a webinar, in association with the Parliament of World’s Religions, Chicago, USA, on “Interfaith Harmony for World Peace” on 11 September in which the General Secretary Swami Suvirananda Ji and a number of swamis and eminent scholars from different countries spoke. Sri Satya Pal Malik, Governor of Meghalaya, visited Shillong centre on 10 September.
Values Education and Youth Programmes Delhi centre conducted 22 online workshops on values education in September. In all, 1295 teachers from different parts of India attended these workshops.
Health Eye Camp: Manasadwip centre: 51 treated, 67 given spectacles; Rajkot centre: 45 treated, 35 operated.
Relief Work Coronavirus Relief Our centres in Salem, Hyderabad, Asansol, Darjeeling, Gadadhar ashrama in Kolkata, Jalpaiguri, Malda, Bagerhat (Bangladesh), Durban and Phoenix (South Africa), Lusaka (Zambia) distributed Coronavirus relief among 3516 families. The relief items included 5490 kg Flour, 2481 kg Semolina, 3025 litres Cooking oil, 8203 kg Pulses, 1505 kg Salt, 815 kg Sugar, 658 kg assorted spices, and other grocery and sanitary items.
Cyclone Rehabilitation Manasadwip centre distributed asbestos sheets, tin sheets, and other necessary items to afflicted families in South 24 Parganas district to help them repair and renovate their houses that had been damaged by Cyclone Amphan. In all, the centre will provide this help to repair and renovate 215 houses; so far the work on 182 houses has been completed. Taki centre helped 13 families in North 24 Parganas district to repair and renovate their houses that had been damaged by Cyclone Amphan.
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