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The Order on the March
The Order on the March News & Notes from Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
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After nearly three months of lockdown due to Coronoavirus pandemic, Belur Math campus was opened to devotees and visitors, with all safty measures in place, from 15 June. However, the Math was again closed from 2 nd August.
News from Branch Centres
Sri Tathagata Roy, Governor of Meghalaya inaugurated the online learning portal of Shillong centre.
Smt. Padmaja, High Commissioner of India to Fiji, visited the Order’s Fiji ashrama on 22 June.
Four of the degree colleges run by the Order have secured good positions in the national ranking for 2020 announced by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. Ramakrishna Mission Vidyamandira (Saradapitha) 7 th rank; Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Centenary College (Rahara) 11 th rank; Ramakrishna Mission Residential College (Narendrapur) 20 th rank; Ramakrishna Mission Vidyalaya College of Arts and Science (Coimbatore) 65 th rank.
Values Education and Youth Programmes
Delhi centre conducted 63 online value education workshops for 2834 government and private school teachers across India.
Coronavirus Relief Work
The Order provided cooked food, rice, flour, pulses, cooking oil, salt, sugar, milk, potatoes, onions, garments, facemasks, hand sanitisers, soaps and detergent, vitamin tablets etc. to 1,28,642 families across India through 35 ashramas at Aalo, Guwahati, Silchar, Chapra, Muzaffarpur, Vadodara, Ranchi Morabadi, Ranchi Sanatorium, Mysuru, Pune, Imphal, Shillong, New Delhi, Khetri, Chengalpattu, Ootacamund, Agartala, Kanpur, Varanasi (Home of Service), Dehradun, Bagda, Bajepratappur (Bardhaman), Baranagar Math, Barisha, Belgharia, Chandipur, Cossipore, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Malda, Narendrapur, Sargachi, Sarisha, Sikra Kulingram, and Tamluk. New Delhi and Khetri centres distributed snacks/ORS/ garments to 28,673 migrant workers. Coimbatore (Mission), Ranchi Morabadi and Asansol ashramas gave Homeopathy medicines to 1,02,994 persons. Bagerhat, Chandpur, Dinajpur, and Jessore ashrama centres in Bangladesh served 3433 families.
Cyclone Relief Work
The Order provided tarpaulins, ORS, candles, matchboxes, biscuit packets, cooked food, rice, flour, pulses, cooking oil, salt, sugar, milk powder, potatoes, onions, garments, sanitary napkins, facemasks, soaps, detergent etc. to 62,620 families in West Bengal affected by the cyclone Amphan through 21 ashramas at Baghbazar, Balaram Mandir, Bamunmura, Baranagar Mission, Barasat, Barisha, Belgharia, Contai, Gadadhar Ashrama, Kasundia, Kathamrita Bhavan, Manasadwip, Naora, Narendrapur, Rahara, Rajarhat Bishnupur, Saradapith, Sarisha, Sikra Kulingram, Swamiji’s Ancestral House and Taki. Manasadwip ashrama provided shelter to 1100 persons and gave housing material to 116 families.
Limbdi ashrama provided tarpaulins to 245 families in Limbdi, Gujarat affected by the cyclone Nisarga.
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