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Allahabad
centre organized a
medical camp, discourses, and an exhibition on Sri Ramakrishna and Swamiji at
Triveni Sangam on the occasion of Magh Mela from 20 January to 21 February.
About 16,000 patients were treated at the medical camp and nearly 80,000 people
witnessed the exhibition.
Narendrapur
Vidyalaya held a six-day function from 23 to 28
January in connection with its golden jubilee. Swami
Prabhanandaji, General Secretary, Ramakrishna Math and
Ramakrishna Mission, released a commemorative volume and
presided over the meeting on 27 January. He also distributed
prizes to the students for their various achievements. Cultural
programmes were organized on all the six days.
Swami Smarananandaji,
Vice-President, Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, inaugurated the newly
built Vivekananda Vidya Vihar (a building for school and other service
activities for the poor and the youth) at Sitanagaram campus of Vijayawada
centre on 14 February.
An additional operation theatre
of Sarada Netralaya at Patna centre was inaugurated on 16
February.
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Asansol
centre has developed a piece of land at the junction of National Highway-2
and
Vivekananda Sarani (formerly Kanyapur Link Road) into a park and installed there
a 13-foot bronze statue of Swami Vivekananda. The park and the statue were
inaugurated on 19 February.
The first floor of the Shilpa
Vidyalaya building of Tamluk centre was inaugurated on 19 February.
Foundation stone for the proposed new temple at Ponnampet
centre was laid on 24 February.
The
following centres conducted free eye camps:
|
Sl. No. |
Centre |
Duration
of camps |
Patients
checked / treated |
Specs given |
Surgeries |
|
no. |
performed at |
|
1 |
Asansol |
Nov.-Jan. |
62 |
29 |
29 |
A
hospital in Asansol |
|
2 |
Belgaum |
30 Jan. & 10 Feb. |
68 |
– |
25 |
21 in a hospital in Belgaum, and
4
in our Belgaum Eye Care Centre |
|
3 |
Chennai Math (through
Chengalpattu centre) |
26 Jan. |
137 |
106 |
7 |
A
hospital in Chengalpattu |
|
4 |
Garbeta |
February |
162 |
41 |
– |
– |
|
5 |
Jamshedpur |
1 Feb. |
226 |
73 |
73 |
A
hospital in Jamshedpur |
|
6 |
Limbdi |
15 Feb. |
86 |
– |
8 |
A
hospital in Virnagar, Dist. Rajkot |
|
7 |
Lucknow |
February |
1317 |
– |
277 |
Our Lucknow hospital |
|
8 |
Medinipur |
17 Feb. |
145 |
– |
43 |
A
hospital in Medinipur |
|
9 |
Mumbai |
Dec.-Jan. |
564 |
403 |
73 |
Our Mumbai hospital |
|
10 |
Narainpur |
February |
42 |
– |
27 |
Our Narainpur hospital |
|
11 |
Patna |
February |
300 |
– |
120 |
Our Sarada Netralaya in Patna |
|
12 |
Rajkot |
Dec.-Jan. |
464 |
15 |
83 |
Hospitals in Bhuj, Junagadh & Rajkot |
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Arnab Rudra, a
student of BSc 1st Year Physics (Honours) of Vidyamandira
(Saradapitha, Belur), was awarded Jagadish Bose
National Science Talent Scholarship, 2007, and Kishore
Vaigyanik Protsahan Yojana National Science Fellowship, 2007.
Five students of Class XI of our Viveknagar (Tripura)
school, namely Sarjick Bakshi, Satrajit Das, Laksabir Debnath,
Saptarshi Saha and Annek Roy Choudhury, were awarded Jagadish
Bose National Science Talent Search Junior Scholarship, 2007.
National
Board of Higher Mathematics
(NBHM) conducts Indian National Mathematical Olympiad (INMO)
every year and invites the top 35 INMO certificate awardees to
International Mathematical Olympiad Training Camp (IMOTC)
for preparing them to participate in the International
Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). Chitradeep Gupta, a student of
Class X of our Viveknagar (Tripura) school, is the only
student from the entire North Eastern Region selected for the
IMOTC this year.
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News of
Branch Centres : OUTSIDE INDIA |
Swami Nirantaranandaji,
who has been posted to Gretz (France) centre as an Assistant Minister,
reached there on 1 February.
Swami
Dayatmanandaji, head of Bourne End (UK) centre, reached Delhi on 9
February on a three-week visit to India.
Swami Amaranandaji
returned to Geneva (Switzerland) after a three-week visit to India.
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Communication Addresses & Numbers |
Postal Address:
Kanyapur Link Road, on which our
Asansol
centre stands, has been renamed Vivekananda Sarani. So, the postal
address of the centre is now “Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Vivekananda Sarani,
Asansol, Dist. Burdwan, West Bengal 713304”.
Telephone Number:
Almora
Ashrama has got a landline telephone connection
931-969-3729 for its office.
Email Addresses:
The following centres have changed their
email addresses as shown below:
|
Centre |
Old Address |
New Address |
|
Chennai Students’ Home |
<rkmshome@airtelbroadband.in> |
<rkmshome@airtelmail.in> |
|
Palai |
<rkmpalai@sancharnet.in> |
<rkm_palai@bsnl.in>
<rkmpalai@gmail.com> |
|
Ramharipur |
<rkmrhp@sancharnet.in> |
<rkm_rhp@bsnl.in> |
Viveknagar
(Tripura) centre has got an addition email address <rkmvlya@yahoo.com>.
Mauritius
centre has discontinued its email address <rkmmtius@hotmail.com>.
Website:
Dr Debesh Das, Minister for Information Technology, West Bengal,
inaugurated the website of Shilpamandira (Polytechnic of
Saradapitha, Belur) on 16 February. Its address is
www.shilpamandira.org
We are sorry to announce the
passing away of Swami Darshananandaji (Prangopal Maharaj) on 5 February
at 7.55 am at Belur Math. He was 88, and had been suffering from chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease, Parkinson’s disease and kidney problem for some
years. Although he had been serving at Contai centre since 1946, he joined the
Order in 1953. He had Sannyasa from Swami Vishuddhanandaji in 1962. Besides
his joining centre, he served at Purulia Vidyapith and Belur Math. He had been
leading a retired life at Belur Math for the last 14 years. The Swami was
hard-working by nature.
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