Special Report
Ramakrishna Math & Ramakrishna Mission Synopsis of the Governing Body Report for 2017-18
February 2019
A synopsis of the report presented in the meeting is given below. Some of the major awards received by the Ramakrishna Mission together with its twin organization Ramakrishna Math and their branches in the year 201718 are as follows: (i) Divyayan Krishi Vigyan Kendra of Ranchi Morabadi Ashrama was awarded Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Rashtriya Krishi Vigyan Protsahan Puraskar at the national level by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research, (ii) Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission were listed in the World Book of Records, London, as a spiritual movement working for the harmony of religions, (iii) Kamarpukur school and Narendrapur Vidyalaya received the Best School Awards from the School Education Department, Government of West Bengal, (iv) Vivekananda College of Chennai Vidyapith secured the third position under the colleges category in the all-India Swachchhata rankings. In commemoration of the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Abhedananda, four national seminars on Indian Culture and Philosophy, and a number of other programmes were held at different centres of Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission. The 150th birth anniversary of Sister Nivedita was celebrated by the Headquarters and a number of branch centres in India and abroad. Nearly 55,000 people attended 115 seminars and conventions held in this connection, and about 50,000 students took part in the cultural competitions. A few new books on Sister Nivedita were also published in different languages. New branch centres of Ramakrishna Mission were started in: (i) Goa, (ii) Lumdung, Arunachal Pradesh, (iii) Jhargram, West Bengal, (iv) New Town, Kolkata, (v) Davanagere, Karnataka, and (vi) Dibrugarh, Assam. A sub-centre of Lucknow Mission Sevashrama was started at Ayodhya in Uttar Pradesh. In the educational field, the following new developments deserve special mention: (i) NAAC awarded A++ grade to the College of Education at Coimbatore Mission centre and A+ grade to the Vivekananda College of Chennai Vidyapith. (ii) UGC conferred autonomous status on Vivekananda Centenary College of Rahara centre for six years, (iii) Visakhapatnam centre started Vivek Institute of Excellence, which conducts life-enhancing courses and programmes mainly for the youth, (iv) Our centres in Coimbatore, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam added smart classroom facility to their schools. In the medical field, mention may be made of the following new developments: (i) Itanagar hospital started four new departments: Oncology, Plastic Surgery, Cardiology and Ayurveda, (ii) Lucknow hospital was accredited by NABH (National Accreditation Board for Hospitals &
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PA G E S P O N S O R : A D E V O T E E , K I S M AT P U R , H Y D E R A B A D
The 109th Annual General Meeting of the Ramakrishna Mission was held at Belur Math on Sunday, the 16th December 2018 at 3.30 p.m.
