Rural and tribal welfare work is accomplished in three ways:
- Through our centres located in rural and tribal areas;
- Through our urban centres which have taken up development projects in rural and tribal areas; and
- Through our educational and medical institutions in semi-urban areas, where rural people form a significant percentage of the beneficiaries.
The Math and the Mission spent a sum of Rs. 73.18 crore for rural and tribal development work, apart from the huge expenditure incurred by the educational and medical institutions located in rural and tribal areas.
Rural Development Service
In the year under review, the following services were provided by the Math and the Mission in rural and tribal areas:
| Rural Development Services | No. of Constn./ Prog. | No. of Villages Served | No. of Beneficiaries | |
| Total | Socially Backward | |||
| Potable Water: | ||||
| Digging of Wells / Ponds Installation of Water Filters / Purifiers | 32 53 | 32 26 | 120 18,294 | 132 43 |
| Washing & Sanitation: | ||||
| School / Community – Toilets, etc Household Toilets Drainage System / Soakage Pit | 310 | 174 | 28,109 | 1,842 |
| Disinfection, Sterilization Programmes | – | 2,345 | 2,46,309 | 5,605 |
| Others | 112 | 15,867 | 38,08,737 | 17,52,619 |
| Agriculture & Irrigation: | ||||
| Agricultural Camp / Demonstrations | 207 | 536 | 7,752 | 6,976 |
| Farmers’ Fare (Kisan Mela) | 6 | 271 | 14,623 | 14,523 |
| Distribution of items: | ||||
| Seed / Saplings distribution (No. of saplings) | 184 | 1,015 | 1,015 | 184 |
| Fertilizers etc (in kg) | 700 | 1,232 | 1,232 | 700 |
| Pesticides | 12 | 125 | 125 | 12 |
| Tools / Equipment | 5 | 90 | 90 | 5 |
| Soil Testing (No. of samples tested) | 1,841 | – | 4,066 | 3,568 |
| Wasteland Development | 50 Acres | 2 | 50 | 50 |
| Excursions / Exposure visits, etc | 36 | 528 | 1,802 | 1,802 |
| Others | 113 | 32 | 743 | 743 |
| Animal Resource Development: | ||||
| Veterinary-clinic / Vet Service | 6 | 11 | 620 | 620 |
| Others | 1300 | 5 | 50 | 50 |
| Awareness Programmes: | ||||
| Health, Hygiene & Immunisation (AIDS, Leprosy, Drug-abuse, Family Planning, etc) |
829 |
112 |
49,567 |
8,908 |
| Social/Civil Values | 7 | 7 | 713 | – |
| Counselling to Self-Help Groups (SHGs) | 149 | 194 | 13,517 | 2,090 |
| Others | 716 | 348 | 59,371 | 6,511 |
| Constructions & Repairs: | ||||
| Dwelling places | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| Schools / Institutions | 3 | 46 | 202 | 168 |
| Others | 645 | 163 | 1,093 | 1,500 |
Medical Services
In the year under review, 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 | |||
| Male | Female | Child | Socially Backward | ||||||
| Hospitals | 5 | 280 | 9,186 | 1,50,773 | 67,721 | 62,977 | 29,261 | 74,832 | — |
| Dispensaries (Allopathy) } -do- (Homeopathy) |
43 | — — | — — | 4,20,670 1,48,511 | 1,58,738 45,216 | 1,91,427 77,721 | 70,505 25,574 | 99,094 58,548 | — — |
| -do- (Ayurvedic & Others) | — | — | 16,989 | 8,636 | 7,906 | 447 | 2,191 | — | |
| Mobile Medical Units | 57 | — | — | 10,13,956 | 3,31,316 | 5,14,244 | 1,68,565 | 2,85,277 | — |
| Eye Camps | 497 | — | — | 49,732 | 14,632 | 16,160 | 18,940 | 30,432 | — |
| General Medical Camps | 285 | — | — | 1,03,755 | 41,175 | 45,156 | 17,424 | 39,058 | — |
| Other Medical Services | 29 | — | — | 72,693 | 24,455 | 28,139 | 20,099 | 62,891 | — |
| Nurses’ Training Schools | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 64 |
| Total | 916 | 280 | 4,459 | 19,86,265 | 6,91,720 | 9,43,730 | 3,50,815 | 6,52,323 | 64 |
Educational Services
In the year under review, 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 | ||
| University | 1 | 483 | 53 | 536 | 431 |
| Arts & Science Colleges | 1 | 2,204 | 39 | 2,243 | 1,487 |
| Sanskrit Colleges | 1 | 29 | 36 | 65 | 24 |
| Teachers’ Training Institutes | 1 | 44 | 4 | 48 | 32 |
| Colleges of Physical Education | 1 | 141 | – | 141 | 141 |
| Junior Basic Training Institutes | 4 | 97 | 242 | 339 | 150 |
| Higher Secondary Schools | 12 | 10,269 | 2,067 | 12,336 | 8,127 |
| Secondary Schools | 25 | 6,252 | 4,358 | 10,610 | 6,174 |
| Sanskrit Schools | 1 | 241 | 140 | 381 | 278 |
| Jr. High / Middle Schools (VI-VIII) | 14 | 1,753 | 1,388 | 3,141 | 2,841 |
| Jr. Basic / U.P./ L.P. Schools (I-V) | 50 | 3,885 | 2,553 | 6,438 | 3,556 |
| Pre-Basic / K.G./ Nursery Schools / Crèches | 133 | 2,657 | 2,396 | 5,053 | 1,555 |
| Hostels / Students’ Homes | 51 | 13,749 | 6,766 | 20,515 | 7,587 |
| Polytechnics | 2 | 1,144 | – | 1,144 | 1,131 |
| Jr. Technical & Industrial Schools | 2 | 652 | – | 652 | 223 |
| Computer Training Centres | 4 | 622 | 618 | 1,240 | 1,003 |
| Vocational Training Centres | 45 | 10,662 | 9,750 | 20,412 | 14,233 |
| Institutes of Agriculture | 2 | 3,836 | 486 | 4,322 | 1,257 |
| Rural Dev. Training Institutes | 2 | – | 1,303 | 1,303 | 604 |
| Non-Formal Education Centres | 107 | 1,845 | 1,889 | 3,734 | 2,748 |
| Night Schools / Adult Education Centres | 8 | 139 | 146 | 285 | 261 |
| National Institute of Open Schooling Centres | 2 | 84 | 143 | 227 | 10 |
| Coaching Centres | 215 | 5,877 | 5,932 | 11,809 | 8,697 |
| Others | 50 | 7,690 | 3,879 | 11,569 | 3,382 |
| Total | 734 | 74,355 | 44,188 | 1,18,543 | 65,932 |
Details of various vocational courses conducted are given below:
| Vocational Courses | Batches Trained | No. of Students | ||
| Boys | Girls | Socially Backward | ||
| Dairy, Poultry, Duckery, Goatery, etc | 81 | 1,072 | 1,276 | 1,806 |
| Pisciculture, Aviculture, Apiculture, Sericulture, etc | 41 | 580 | 300 | 801 |
| Agriculture, Horticulture, Floriculture, etc | 80 | 2,757 | 1,285 | 3,990 |
| Organic Farming, Vermicomposting, etc | 24 | 404 | 193 | 553 |
| Mushroom Cultivation | 17 | 107 | 236 | 247 |
| Crop Husbandry | 8 | 199 | 6 | 92 |
| Farmers’ Training & Orientation | 1 | – | 20 | 10 |
| Food-processing | 10 | 29 | 214 | 100 |
| Handicraft | 20 | 12 | 392 | 124 |
| Cutting, Tailoring, Designing, Embroidery, etc | 125 | 52 | 2,667 | 1,246 |
| Motor Driving | 5 | 135 | 6 | 69 |
| Automotive Servicing & Repairing | 6 | 103 | – | 75 |
| Welding, Binding, Fabricating, etc | 8 | 97 | 21 | 44 |
| Masonry, Plumbing, etc | 8 | 209 | – | 156 |
| Carpentry & Joinery, Roofing, Framing, etc | 3 | 11 | – | 4 |
| Domestic Appliances Repair | 2 | 33 | – | 16 |
| Repairing of Electrical & Electronic goods | 26 | 493 | – | 305 |
| Electrical Wiremanship, Motor Winding, etc | 21 | 383 | – | 238 |
| Physiotherapy / Hospital / Ward/ OT Assistant | 4 | 84 | 52 | 66 |
| Basic Computer Operations | 50 | 1,723 | 840 | 1,518 |
| Basic Computer Hardware | 3 | 52 | – | 22 |
| Commercial Art & Painting | 1 | 6 | 8 | 5 |
| Photography & Videography | 1 | 11 | 3 | 3 |
| Others | 70 | 2,110 | 2,231 | 2,744 |
| Total | 615 | 10,662 | 9,750 | 14,234 |
| Cultural Units / Programmes / Competitions | No. of Units/ Programmes | No. of Participants/ Delegates |
| Cultural Units (Balak Sangha, Jnana Vahini, etc.) | 237 | 20,412 |
| Cultural Camps: | ||
| Personality Development, etc | 26 | 3,829 |
| Yoga, Meditation, etc | 44 | 1,623 |
| Camps for Children (including those during vacations) | 114 | 8,692 |
| Values Education Programmes | 326 | 33,630 |
| Workshops, Symposiums, Seminars: | ||
| Educational Field (Science, Literature, etc) | 33 | 5,406 |
| Others | 15 | 7,215 |
| Total | 801 | 80,807 |
These services were mainly provided by Aalo (Arunachal Pradesh), Hatamuniguda (Raigada), Narainpur (Chhattisgarh), Narendrapur (Kolkata), Krishi Vigyan Kendra and Divyayan at Ranchi (Morabadi), Saradapitha (Belur) and Sohra (Cherrapunjee) centres through rural development training institutes and integrated rural development projects.
The Lokasiksha Parishad unit of Narendrapur centre, and Janasiksha Mandira and Samaj Sevak Sikshana Mandira units of Saradapitha centre (Belur), extended dedicated services to rural people. The centre in Mumbai continued its comprehensive rural development project at Sakwar.
Apart from this, there were libraries, audio-visual units, etc to serve rural and tribal people, details of which are shown below:
| Audio- visual Units | No. of Units | Films screened | Villages covered | Schools visited | Beneficiaries |
| 8 | 350 | 223 | 175 | 64,252 |
| Libraries & Reading Rooms | No. of Units | No. of Books | Newspapers | Periodicals | Books Issued | Attendance |
| Public Libraries | 28 | 1,62,861 | 85 | 327 | 24,586 | 46,573 |
| School / College Libraries | 47 | 3,75,018 | 212 | 880 | 30,204 | 2,80,939 |
Welfare Work
In the year under review, the Math and the Mission provided the following items/services under rural welfare works in rural and tribal areas:
| Items / Help Given | Quantity Distributed | No. of Beneficiaries | |||
| Male | Female | Child | Total | ||
| Rice / Wheat etc. (kg) | 1,14,199 | 1,613 | 11,026 | 730 | 13,369 |
| Ration Kits1 | 84,977 | 294 | 1,684 | 29 | 2,007 |
| Snacks /Tiffin | — | 11,794 | 19,072 | 24,051 | 54,917 |
| Meals (Annadanam) | — | — | — | — | 6,70,359 |
| Water/ Buttermilk | — | — | — | — | 10,000 |
| Milk2 | 38,986 | 21 | 883 | 1,61,345 | 1,62,249 |
| Hygiene Kits3 | 22,028 | 159 | 154 | 4,082 | 4,395 |
| Educational Kits4 | 25,161 | 4,732 | 5,050 | 4,972 | 14,754 |
| Clothes | — | 45,440 | 46,346 | 9,764 | 1,01,550 |
| Pecuniary Help for | |||||
| – Medical needs | — | 9,394 | 19,043 | 7,763 | 36,200 |
| – Educational needs | — | 5,845 | 6,978 | 5,474 | 18,297 |
| – Miscellaneous needs | — | 1,969 | 2,014 | 357 | 4,340 |
| Other types of Help | 1,19,186 | 17,192 | 23,805 | 211 | 41,208 |
** Made from milk powder
*** ‘Hygiene Kits’ contained toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes, soap bars, antiseptics, nail-cutters, etc
**** ‘Educational Kits’ contained textbooks, notebooks, pens, pencils, erasers, geometry boxes, rulers, uniforms, etc
The statistics relating to the institutions furnished in this section (i.e., Work in Rural and Tribal Areas) form part of the figures already mentioned under ‘Welfare Work’, ‘Medical Service’ and ‘Educational Work’.