The following centres organized various programmes to commemorate the 150th birth anniversary of Swami Vivekananda.  (Main programmes conducted by them are mentioned against their names.)

Chandigarh: Drama on the life of Swami Vivekananda on 2 April at the Ashrama; Lectures on the life and teachings of Swamiji and guided meditation at Vidya Bharati Shodh Sansthan, Kurukshetra, on 21 April (about 150 people attended), and at a Government school in Panchkula district, Haryana, on 24 April (approx. 250 persons attended);

Chengalpattu: Procession, discourses, cultural programmes and a film show on Swami Vivekananda at Neelamangalam village on 8 April;

Jalpaiguri: Cultural competitions on 25 March, in which about 600 students took part;

Kadapa: Four-day free residential training camp in agriculture and allied subjects for farmers from 3 to 6 April, which was attended by 33 persons from 4 districts of Rayalaseema.

Limbdi: Talks on the life and message of Swami Vivekananda in four educational institutions from 27 March to 3 April, which were attended by about 3200 students in all; A nine-day ‘Baal Bharati’ camp from 20 to 28 April, in which 80 students participated each day;

Mysore: Bharatiya Adhyatmika Sammilana (spiritual congregation) from 20 to 23 April in which about 230 monks and spiritual leaders of various Hindu denominations and groups, mostly from Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu, took part; About 2500 devotees attended the programme;

Release of a commemorative volume ‘Viveka Jagruthi’ on 20 April;

Processions of monks, delegates and devotees on 21 and 22 April;

On 22 April, Sri D V Sadananda Gowda, Chief Minister of Karnataka, inaugurated ‘Viveka Smaraka’ on the renovated erstwhile premises of Niranjan Math where Swami Vivekananda had stayed during his visit to Mysore;

Public function on Mysore Palace grounds on 22 April, which was presided over by Swami Prabhanandaji, General Secretary, Ramakrishna Math & Ramakrishna Mission; The Chief Minister of Karnataka and several other dignitaries addressed the huge gathering of fifteen to twenty thousand people;

Felicitation of monks on 23 April;

Meetings on all the four days;

Narainpur: Three-day Regional Tribal Convention from 29 to 31 March, which was attended by about 2500 persons, including 949 delegates from six states; Sri Shekhar Dutt, Governor of Chhattisgarh, attended the programme on 30 March;

Patna: Teachers’ workshop on 8 April, which was attended by nearly 200 teachers from different schools and colleges and also some professors and doctors from Patna University;

Ranchi Morabadi: A three-day spiritual retreat, public meetings, discourses, devotional singing and cultural programmes in the month of April;

Shillong: Public meetings addressed by the Governor of Meghalaya Sri R S Mooshahary, Deputy Chief Minister of Meghalaya Sri Bindoo M Lanong and several other dignitaries on 27 April;

Swami Vivekananda’s Ancestral House: On the centre’s initiative, two institutions, one in Salt Lake and the other in North Kolkata, organized seminars on 17 and 27 April on the relevance of the message of Swami Vivekananda in today’s context;

Vijayawada: Cultural competitions in which about 36,000 students from various schools in Andhra Pradesh took part;

Vishakhapatnam: Talks at 32 educational institutions in 3 districts of Andhra Pradesh from January to March.