Activities : Rural Development Services : 2014-15

In the year 2014-15, the following services were provided by Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission in rural and tribal areas:


Rural Development Services	No. of Constructions / Programmes & Quantity Distributed	No. of Villages Served	No. of Beneficiaries
			Total	Socially Backward
Potable Water:
Digging of Wells / Ponds	10	8	1,409	4
Installation of tube-wells	10	10	10	8
Installation of Water-Filters / Purifiers	195	105	3,210	135
Water-harvesting (No. of houses benefited)	200	3	200	200
Washing & Sanitation:
School / Community – Toilets, etc	1,219	1,210	39,429	8,714
Household Toilets	46,804	3,315	2,15,358	46,103
Bathing Ghats / Washing Platforms	23	5	99	3
Drainage system / Soakage Pits	733	39	73,71,432	480
Disinfection, Sterilisation Programmes	-	249	73,45,169	3,167
Others	41,692	8,561	36,64,875	4,89,043
Agriculture & Irrigation:
Agricultural Camp / Demonstrations	260	569	7,540	7,302
Farmers' Fare (Kisan Melas)	7	266	22,021	22,021
Distribution of items:
Seeds distribution (in kg)	1,493	470	4,792	4,792
Saplings distribution (No. of saplings)	28,080
Fertilizers etc. (in kg)	657	137	1,344	1,344
Pesticides etc. (in litre)	80	60	998	998
Tools / Equipment	11	7	61	61
Soil Testing (No. of samples tested)	450	115	150	150
Wasteland Development	-	15	6,996	6,996
Construction of Check Dams / Irrigation Units	10	12	1,500	1,500
Excursions / Exposure visits etc	18	145	926	906
Others	10	4	120	120
Animal Resource Development:
Veterinary-clinic / Vet Service	3,472	20	3,280	576
Input distibn. (Goat / Chick / bee-box etc)	313	16	495	110
Awareness Programmes :
Health, Hygiene & Immunisation (AIDS, Leprosy, Drug-abuse, Family Planning, etc)	6,563	68	7,422	2,521
Environment	35	19	1,590	339
Social / Civil Values, Healthy Habits, etc	81	81	5,896	3,650
Counselling on Financial Services	56	2	1,574	-
Counselling to Self-Help Groups (SHGs)	199	299	5,861	2,665
Others	272	632	40,920	14,432
Constructions & Repairs:
Dwelling places	1	1	1	-
Schools / Institutions	1	1	1	1
Other Activities:
Solid Waste Mgt. / Recycling (in kg)	60,720	54	4,656	4,656
Liquid Waste Mgt. / Recycling (in litre)	24,900	122	2,235	2,235
Renewable/ Alternative source of Energy :–
Solar Energy units	73	23	437	380
Others	1	1	17,000	7,752
Social Forestry	207	20	8,800	280

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The Math and Mission had the following medical units in rural and tribal areas:


Units	No. of Units	No. of Beds	In-Patients	Out-Patients	Break-up of Total Patients				Inmates / Students
					Socially Backward	Child	Female	Male
Hospitals	5	280	7,539	1,40,143	59,044	21,163	58,421	60,559	-
Dispensaries (Allopathy)	46	-	-	3,97,797	1,20,530	67,293	1,77,743	1,52,761	-
(Homeopathy)	46	-	-	1,53,651	51,366	37,526	69,713	46,412	-
(Ayurvedic & Others)		-	-	10,547	2,984	477	4,850	5,220	-
Mobile Medical Units	59	-	-	9,56,278	2,46,645	1,86,845	4,77,417	2,92,016	-
Eye Camps	392	-	-	52,448	13,612	27,051	13,858	11,539	-
General Medical Camps	536	-	-	54,495	27,797	10,151	25,897	18,447	-
Other Medical Services	10	-	-	89,548	86,482	18,095	36,571	34,882	-
Nurses’ Training Schools	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	81
Total	1049	280	7,539	18,54,907	6,08,460	3,68,601	8,64,470	6,21,836	81

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Moreover, 4,232 units of blood were also collected from voluntary blood donors through 77 camps.

The Math and Mission had the following educational institutions in rural and tribal areas:


Institutions	No. of Units	No. of Students
		Boys	Girls	Total	Socially Backward
Arts & Science Colleges	1	1,919	15	1,934	1,343
Sanskrit Colleges	1	34	42	76	42
Teachers’ Training Institutes	1	141	9	150	92
Colleges of Physical Education	1	157	-	157	157
Junior Basic Training Institutes	4	101	182	283	136
Higher Secondary Schools	11	9,530	2,175	11,705	7,466
Secondary Schools	20	5,500	2,274	7,774	3,043
Sanskrit Schools	1	228	139	367	129
Jr. High / Middle Schools (VI-VIII)	24	2,088	1,766	3,854	2,652
Jr. Basic / U.P./ L.P. Schools (I-V)	71	6,512	5,217	11,729	7,752
Pre-Basic / K.G./ Nursery Schools / Crèches	172	2,987	2,702	5,689	1,875
Hostels / Students' Homes	45	17,865	9,917	27,782	6,882
Orphanages	3	663	-	663	642
Polytechnics	2	1,176	-	1,176	1,121
Jr. Technical & Industrial Schools	2	659	-	659	546
Computer Training Centres	4	673	551	1,224	1,170
Vocational Training Centres	45	10,244	8,521	18,765	10,794
Institutes of Agriculture	2	2,674	468	3,142	61
Rural Dev. Training Institutes	8	2,340	3,638	5,978	1,542
Non-Formal Education Centres	112	3,233	2,667	5,900	3,196
Night Schools / Adult Education Centres	8	180	300	480	418
National Open School Centres	4	220	270	490	45
Coaching Centres	243	7,443	7,104	14,547	10,281
Others	51	7,473	2,120	9,593	2,401
Total	834	84,006	50,035	1,34,041	63,726

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Details of various vocational trainings provided are given below:


Vocational Courses	Batches Trained	No. of Students
		Boys	Girls	Socially Backward
Dairy, Poultry, Duckery, Goatery, Piggery etc.	47	1,071	192	1,127
Pisciculture, Aviculture, Apiculture, Sericulture, etc	26	383	81	284
Agriculture, Horticulture, Floriculture, etc	98	2,217	1,186	3,403
Organic Farming, Vermicomposting, etc	19	308	92	225
Mushroom Cultivation	8	64	78	86
Crop Husbandry	12	227	10	125
Farmers' Training & Orientation	9	326	28	88
Food-processing	15	41	346	298
Handicraft	47	59	1,078	628
Cutting, Tailoring, Designing, Embroidery, etc	114	73	2,551	1,241
Motor Driving	6	65	-	63
Automotive Servicing & Repairing	14	319	-	148
Welding, Binding, Fabricating, etc	7	87	-	49
Masonry, Plumbing, etc	8	77	-	45
Carpentry & Joinery, Roofing, Framing, etc	8	64	-	42
Domestic Appliance Repair	4	216	-	5
Repairing of Electrical & Electronic goods	23	447	-	201
Electrical Wiremanship, Motor Winding, etc	21	411	-	216
Basic Computer Operations	64	1,686	1,229	1,363
Basic Computer Hardware	8	177	11	93
Commercial Art & Painting	2	13	1	10
Photography & Videography	4	31	3	14
Others	130	1,700	1,533	2,.108
Total	700	10,244	8,521	10,734

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The centres in Aalo (Along), Antpur, Bankura, Chapra, Cherrapunjee, Coimbatore (Mission), Hatamuniguda, Ichapur, Jayrambati, Kamarpukur, Kalady, Malliankaranai (Tamil Nadu), Manasadwip (West Bengal), Mysuru, Naora (West Bengal), Narainpur (Chhattisgarh), Narottam Nagar, Nattarampalli, Ramharipur, Sargachhi, Sarisha, Shivanahalli (Bengaluru), Viveknagar (Agartala), Thrissur, etc, directly catered to the needs of rural and tribal folk in a big way, and a number of rural units were run by the centres at Belur (Saradapitha), Contai, Narendrapur, Ranchi (Morabadi), etc.

Of these, special mention may be made of the numerous village units started for educating the hill tribes in Meghalaya, various village development programmes conducted by Narendrapur (Kolkata) centre catering the needs for all-round village development, as well as the agricultural training and development centre in Ranchi, specially meant for people belonging to the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes.

The tribal development project of our centre at Narainpur (Abujhmarh, Bastar District) has made a significant contribution towards the all-round development of the local tribes. Our educational, medical and cultural activities in Arunachal Pradesh have proved to be very useful and popular.