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In response to the rampant spread of Covid-19 infections in recent weeks, the Belur Math campus has been closed to devotees and visitors from 22 April. A decision on reopening the campus will be taken after assessing the pandemic situation in the coming months. Sri Dharmendra Pradhan, Union Minister for Petroleum & Natural Gas and Steel, visited Belur Math on 24 April.
Values Education and Youth Programmes Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence, Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad, is an institute that is imparting Swami Vivekananda’s man-making ideas to students, professionals, and the general public for the last 20 years. From January to April 2021 the institute conducted 61 half-a-day to six days’ online courses under 15 broad topics in which 13,396 people participated. Delhi centre conducted 21 workshops on values education in which 1584 teachers and parents participated.
Covid-19 Relief Delhi centre, in April, distributed 125 LED projectors among as many Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya schools to enable them to provide online education. Sinthi centre in Kolkata, Bagerhat centre in Bangladesh, Durban and Phoenix centres in South Africa distributed groceries and grains among the needy.
Fire Relief In a devastating fire at an interior village of Arunachal Preadesh 115 houses were burnt down. Narottam Nagar centre provided food grains, groceries, and utensils to the affected families. Karimganj centre in Assam and Thanjavur centre in Tamil Nadu provided food grains and garments to one and 40 families respectively whose houses were burnt down. Bhubaneswar centre installed a pump set in a village in Bhadrak district where many house were destroyed in a fire accident.
Distress Relief Eight centres in India distributed 930 saris, 1051 shirts, 1857 trousers, 1152 sweaters/jackets, 1300 blankets, etc among the needy people.
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June 2021
News & Notes from Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission
