The Order on the March
Guests-of-honour Sri Amit Shah, Union Home Minister, visited the Sohra (Cherrapunjee) centre on 25 July. The following Union Ministers visited the Delhi ashrama: Dr. Subhas Sarkar, Minister of State for Education, on 23 July; Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister, on 24 July; and Mr. John Barla, Minister of State for Minority Affairs, on 25 July. Ms. Patti Hoffman, US Consul General in Kolkata, visited Belur Math on 3 July.
Covid Relief Covid-19 Pandemic relief was continued by 13 centres in 8 states and 6 centres abroad. They distributed 34,257 kg rice, 10,597 kg flour, 8122 kg pulses, 4289 litres cooking oil, 3802 kg spices, 3594 kg potatoes, 3267 kg onions, 3412 kg salt, 4229 kg sugar, 219 kg tea, 12,712 biscuit packets, 9670 face-masks, etc.
Covid Relief: Thanjavur
September 2021
The pandemic-related lockdown restrictions in Belur Math were briefly lifted on Guru Purnima (24 July), thereby allowing devotees to visit the temples on that sacred day. A total of 11,500 devotees had darshan on that day. Benedictory messages of Srimat Swami Smarananandaji, the President of the Ramakrishna Order, and Srimat Swamis Gautamanandaji, Prabhanandaji and Suhitanandaji — Vicepresidents of the Order, discourses and bhajans were telecast on the Belur Math YouTube channel. The new English-medium school ‘Vivekananda Vidyalaya’ on the Nagachi campus of the Ramanathapuram centre was inaugurated on 16 July. On the initiative of the ashrama at Almora, a statue of Swami Vivekananda was installed on 23 July at the Government Inter College, Almora, where Swamiji had delivered two lectures in July 1897. A new Monastic Quarters was inaugurated at the Jhargram centre on the sacred Ratha Yatra day. On the same day the Narendrapur centre opened a new annexe to the school building of the Blind Boys’ Academy. A Staff Quarters named Nandananda Bhavan was inaugurated at the Rajamahendravaram centre.
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