Rural & tribal work is accomplished in three ways, viz, (i) through our centres located in rural and tribal areas, (ii) through our urban centres which have taken up development projects in rural and tribal areas, and (iii) through our educational and medical institutions in semi-urban areas, where rural people form a significant percentage of the beneficiaries. Rural & tribal work covers the following fields:
(a) Community Development Field
(b) Medical Field
(c) Educational Field, and
(d) General Welfare Field.
Rural & tribal work by Ramakrishna Mission
(a) Community Development Field:
| Type of Services | No. of Constructions / Programmes | No. of villages served | No. of Beneficiaries | |
| Total | Socially Backward | |||
| Potable Water: | ||||
| Digging of Wells / Ponds | 25 | 5 | 325 | 75 |
| Installation of tube-wells | 17 | 28 | 11,143 | 315 |
| Water harvesting | 2 | 4 | 75 | 75 |
| Testing drinking water | 24,985 | 7229 | 20,58,918 | 47,522 |
| Others | 41 | 11 | 1,332 | 763 |
| Washing & Sanitation: | ||||
| School / Community Toilets, etc | 58 | 33 | 1,581 | 310 |
| Household Toilets | 10,996 | 1,263 | 1,17,021 | 12,344 |
| Others | 346 | 128 | 31,053 | 5,172 |
| Agriculture & Irrigation: | ||||
| Agricultural Camps/ Demonstrations | 69 | 45 | 4,860 | 4,860 |
| Farmers' Fairs (Kisan Mela) | 2 | 225 | 2,424 | 2,404 |
| Distribution of items: | ||||
| Seed / Saplings distribution (No. of saplings) | 10,334 | 123 | 6,845 | 5,759 |
| Fertilizers (Qty. in kg) | 601 | 248 | 853 | 853 |
| Pesticides (Qty. in ltr) | 181 | 56 | 1,448 | 793 |
| Tools / Equipment | 6,142 | 164 | 2,596 | 1,757 |
| Wasteland Development (Qty. in Acres) | 578 | 209 | 9,773 | 600 |
| Animal Resource Development: | ||||
| Distribution of Goats/Chicks | 663 | 16 | 180 | 25 |
| Distribution of poultry feed & medicines | 280 | 14 | 140 | 2 |
| Others | 2 | 30 | 20 | 6 |
| Awareness Programmes: | ||||
| Health, Hygiene & Immunisation (AIDS, Leprosy, Drug-abuse etc.) | 487 | 695 | 35,566 | 3,747 |
| Counselling to Self-Help Groups (SHGs) | 7 | 7 | 464 | 56 |
| Others | 35 | 106 | 2,415 | 1,636 |
| Construction & Repairs: | ||||
| Schools / Institutions | 221 | 10 | 1012 | 142 |
| Community Halls | 2 | 2 | 600 | 600 |
| Social Forestry | 1,693 | 6 | 1,045 | 160 |
(b) Medical Field: In the year under review, the 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 | ||||
| Male | Female | Children | Socially Backward | Inmates / Students | |||||
| Hospitals | 3 | 271 | 4,561 | 63,508 | 26,797 | 26,063 | 10,648 | 44,118 | -- |
| Dispensaries (Allopathy) | -- | -- | 1,31,450 | 48,093 | 55,932 | 27,425 | 53,436 | -- | |
| (Homeopathy) | 55 | -- | -- | 45,891 | 15,270 | 24,641 | 5,980 | 23,689 | -- |
| (Ayurvedic & Others) | -- | -- | 3,570 | 1,859 | 1,584 | 127 | 1,087 | -- | |
| Mobile Medical Units | 26 | -- | -- | 38,569 | 15,413 | 17,504 | 5,505 | 17,743 | -- |
| Eye Camps | 115 | -- | -- | 10,193 | 5,281 | 4,661 | 251 | 2,576 | -- |
| General Medical Camps | 73 | -- | -- | 38,569 | 15,413 | 17,504 | 5,505 | 17,743 | -- |
| Other Medical Services | 22 | -- | -- | 65,544 | 24,858 | 32,118 | 8,568 | 6,860 | -- |
| Old Age Home | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 7 | 9 | -- | -- | 16 |
| Nurses’ Training School | 1 | 58 | |||||||
| Total | 297 | 271 | 4,561 | 3,97,294 | 1,52,991 | 1,80,016 | 64,009 | 1,67,252 | 74 |
(c) Educational Field: In the year under review, the Mission had the following educational institutions in rural and tribal areas:
| Institutions | No. of Units | No. of Students | |||
| Boys | Girls | Total | Socially Backward | ||
| University Faculty Centres | 1 | 1,269 | 202 | 1,471 | 1,161 |
| Colleges (Arts, Science & Commerce) | 1 | 2,481 | 41 | 2,522 | 1,572 |
| Teachers’ Training Institutes | 1 | 36 | 1 | 37 | 27 |
| Colleges of Physical Education | 1 | 153 | -- | 153 | 153 |
| Junior Basic Training Institutes | 4 | 84 | 180 | 264 | 152 |
| Higher Secondary Schools | 11 | 8,548 | 1,980 | 10,528 | 7,671 |
| Secondary Schools | 28 | 7,127 | 5,058 | 12,185 | 7,989 |
| Jr. High / Middle Schools (VI-VIII) | 15 | 2,166 | 1,972 | 4,138 | 3,932 |
| Jr. Basic / U.P./ L.P. Schools (I-V) | 36 | 3,100 | 2,232 | 5,332 | 2,832 |
| Pre-Basic / K.G./ Nursery Schools / Crèches | 141 | 2,273 | 2,070 | 4,343 | 2,017 |
| Hostels / Students' Homes | 49 | 8,323 | 2,230 | 10,553 | 5,664 |
| Polytechnics | 2 | 1,099 | -- | 1,099 | 818 |
| Jr. Technical & Industrial Schools | 4 | 815 | -- | 815 | 657 |
| Computer Training Centres | 5 | 788 | 536 | 1,324 | 1,253 |
| Vocational Training Centres | 34 | 15,147 | 7,484 | 22,631 | 18,735 |
| Institutes of Agriculture | 1 | 1,947 | 306 | 2,253 | 1,104 |
| Rural Dev. Training Institutes | 80 | 1,200 | 2,424 | 3,624 | 2,917 |
| Non-Formal Education Centres | 250 | 2,028 | 6,730 | 8,758 | 4,587 |
| Night School / Adult Education Centres | 20 | 201 | 235 | 436 | 255 |
| National Open School Centres | 3 | 111 | 137 | 248 | 105 |
| Coaching Centres | 121 | 2,598 | 2,640 | 5,238 | 3,423 |
| Others | 62 | 1,594 | 1,728 | 3,322 | 2,416 |
| Total | 870 | 63,088 | 38,186 | 1,01,274 | 69,440 |
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 | 134 | 1,965 | 1,711 | 2,747 |
| Pisciculture, Aviculture, Apiculture, Sericulture, etc | 88 | 2,096 | 700 | 2,752 |
| Agriculture, Horticulture, Floriculture, etc | 231 | 5,408 | 1,326 | 6,586 |
| Organic Farming, Vermicomposting, etc | 67 | 1,595 | 443 | 2,014 |
| Mushroom Cultivation | 26 | 320 | 350 | 439 |
| Crop Husbandry | 1 | 22 | 8 | 20 |
| Farmers' Training & Orientation | 25 | 1,952 | 419 | 2,371 |
| Food-processing | 4 | 7 | 95 | 35 |
| Handicraft | 15 | 39 | 401 | 101 |
| Cutting, Tailoring, Designing, Embroidery, etc | 57 | 7 | 1,067 | 525 |
| Motor Driving | 11 | 317 | 8 | 136 |
| Automotive Servicing & Repairing | 2 | 56 | -- | 45 |
| Welding, Binding, Fabricating, etc | 2 | 21 | -- | 21 |
| Repairing of Electrical & Electronic goods | 2 | 59 | 1 | 24 |
| Electrical Wiremanship, Motor Winding, etc | 7 | 122 | -- | 100 |
| Physiotherapy/ Hospital/ Ward/ OT Assistant | 9 | 71 | 98 | 87 |
| Basic Computer Operations | 13 | 807 | 262 | 737 |
| Basic Computer Hardware | 3 | 37 | 44 | 37 |
| Training of differently-abled persons | 6 | 130 | 45 | 30 |
| Others | 28 | 111 | 502 | 370 |
| Total | 731 | 15,142 | 7,480 | 19,177 |
| Cultural Units / Camps / Seminars | No. of Units / Programmes | No. of Participants / Delegates |
| Cultural Units (Balak Sangha, Jnana Vahini, etc) | 255 | 6,623 |
| Camps for Children (including those during vacations) | 211 | 5,985 |
| Personality Development Programmes | 117 | 3,668 |
| Yoga & Meditation classes | 108 | 3,181 |
| Values Education Programmes | 126 | 9,653 |
| Competitions | 85 | 4,009 |
| Youth Convention/ Workshop/ Symposium/ Seminar | 41 | 6,980 |
| Others | 1 | 60 |
| Total | 944 | 40,159 |
These services were mainly provided by the centres in Aalo (Arunachal Pradesh), Hatamuniguda (Rayagada), Narainpur (Chhattisgarh), Narendrapur (Kolkata), Ranchi (Morabadi), Belur (Saradapitha) and Sohra (Cherrapunjee) 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 village in Vasai taluka.
Apart from this, there were libraries, audio-visual units, etc to serve rural and tribal people, details of which are shown below:
| Libraries & Reading Rooms | No. of Units | No. of Books | Newspapers | Periodicals | Books Issued | Attendance |
| Public Libraries | 14 | 95,598 | 23 | 62 | 189 | 3,699 |
| School / College Libraries | 44 | 4,06,752 | 145 | 692 | 13,403 | 63,236 |
(d) General Welfare Field: In the year under review, the Mission provided the following services:
| Items / Help Given | Quantity Distributed | No. of Beneficiaries | |||
| Male | Female | Children | Total | ||
| Rice / Wheat etc (kg) | 75,271 | 5,750 | 9,064 | 2,957 | 17,771 |
| Ration Bags 1 | 3,97,216 | 81,573 | 72,691 | 21,529 | 1,75,793 |
| Snacks / Tiffin | -- | 8,966 | 5,400 | 4,123 | 18,489 |
| Meals (Annadanam) (Plates/Food Packets) | 3,42,308 | -- | -- | -- | 3,42,308 |
| Water / Buttermilk (Sachets) | 926 | -- | -- | -- | 926 |
| Milk (kg) 2 | 13,987 | 119 | 140 | 16,586 | 16,845 |
| Hygienic Kits 3 | 1,02,320 | 64,910 | 49,557 | 5,491 | 1,19,958 |
| Educational Kits 4 | 22,246 | 2,760 | 2,745 | 2,222 | 7,727 |
| Clothes | -- | 13,316 | 21,046 | 2,178 | 36,540 |
| Blanket | 12,971 | 11,606 | 9,107 | 759 | 21,472 |
| Pecuniary Help for | |||||
| Medical needs | -- | 1,833 | 2,797 | 778 | 5,408 |
| Educational needs | -- | 1,170 | 565 | 995 | 2,730 |
| Miscellaneous needs | -- | 98,806 | 66,474 | 644 | 1,65,924 |
| Other types of help | -- | 1,665 | 2,013 | 1,117 | 4,795 |
1 Ration kits contained rice, pulses, salt, cooking oil, condiments, sugar, tea leaves, etc
2 Made from milk powder
3 Hygiene kits contained toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes, soap bars, antiseptics, nail-cutters, etc
4 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., Rural & Tribal Work) form part of the figures already mentioned under ‘General Welfare Work’, ‘Medical Work’ and ‘Educational Work’.
The Ramakrishna Mission spent Rs. 69.23 crore specifically for rural and tribal development work including the expenditure incurred for medical and educational institutions located in rural and tribal areas.
The following centres have rendered a few special rural services:
Narainpur centre constructed five fish ponds, four kacha dams and sixteen vermicompost units in different villages benefitting 250 farmers.
Ranchi Morabadi centre:
a. Launched a project to augment sustainable livelihood security of tribal farmers through mustard production programmes. Under this a front line demonstration programme on mustard was conducted at Nagrabera village of Angara block in collaboration with ICAR-DRMR, Bharatpur. Farmers were provided training on organic cultivation of mustard. Four awareness camps were organised and several inputs such as fertilizers, pesticides, sprayers and electric pumps were provided to the farmers.
b. Demonstrated jute mulching to create awareness among the farmers regarding the use of jute mulching for conservation of water and to improve soil health for sustainable farming by conducting field demonstration. The demonstration was conducted at three locations in Angara and Namkum blocks of Ranchi district.
c. Organized a large-scale tree plantation programme under which 1674 plants were planted at Angara, Maheshpur, Butgora and Kathartoli villages under Angara and Bero blocks of Ranchi district.
Sargachhi centre through its Krishi Vigyan Kendra:
a. Conducted 152 training programmes involving 3887 farmers and farm women, 865 rural youths & women and 240 extension functionaries. In addition, 12044 farmers, farm women and extension functionaries were covered through different extension activities other than training.
b. Conducted 9 On-Farm Trials (OFTs) in the fields of 91 farmers.
c. Conducted 18 front line demonstrations involving 302 farmers and farm women. In addition, 475 farmers were covered under Cluster Front Line demonstration on pulses and oilseeds.
d. Conducted SCSP / STSP (Schedule Caste / Scheduled Tribe Sub Plan) programmes in which 325 farmers and 500 fishermen were benefitted.
e. Conducted participatory seed production programmes at 36 hectare area for 120 farmers.
f. Distributed more than one lakh planting materials produced at the KVK farm and in villages at a lower cost to the farming community of the district.
Bajepratappur, Bardhaman centre gave training in agriculture to 10 boys and planted 900 trees in the villages of Purba Bardhaman district.
Rural & tribal work by Ramakrishna Math
(a) Community Development Field: In the year under review, the following services were provided by the Math in rural and tribal areas:
| Rural Development Services | No. of Constructions / Programmes | No. of villages served | No. of Beneficiaries | |
| Total | Socially Backward | |||
| Digging of Wells / Ponds | 1 | 1 | 10 | -- |
| Agriculture & Irrigation Units | 2 | 1 | 200 | 200 |
| Health, Hygiene & Immunisation (AIDS, Leprosy, Drug-abuse, etc) | 5 | 14 | 1,141 | 520 |
| Environment Development Programmes | 7,085 | 2 | 7,085 | 1 |
| Constructions & Repairs | 5 | 4 | 4 | -- |
| Social Forestry | 2,606 | -- | 2,600 | -- |
(b) Medical Field: In the year under review, the Math 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 | |||
| Male | Female | Children | Socially Backward | |||||
| Hospitals | 2 | 50 | 133 | 16,464 | 8,239 | 7,303 | 922 | -- |
| Dispensaries (Allopathy) | -- | -- | 35,696 | 13,519 | 19,140 | 3,037 | 4,256 | |
| (Homeopathy) | 12 | -- | -- | 10,420 | 3,099 | 5,347 | 1,974 | 5,828 |
| (Ayurvedic and Others) | -- | -- | 2,092 | 1,219 | 812 | 61 | 237 | |
| Mobile Medical Units | 8 | -- | -- | 21,657 | 8,621 | 10,627 | 2,409 | 8,456 |
| Eye Camps | 43 | -- | -- | 1,622 | 610 | 894 | 118 | 1,124 |
| General Medical Camps | 56 | -- | -- | 6,441 | 1,071 | 2,068 | 3,302 | 5,737 |
| Other Medical Services | 10 | -- | -- | 6,451 | 2,927 | 3,100 | 424 | 628 |
| Total | 131 | 50 | 133 | 1,00,843 | 39,305 | 49,291 | 12,247 | 26,266 |
(c) Educational Field: In the year under review, the Math had the following educational institutions in rural and tribal areas:
| Institutions | No. of Units | No. of Students | |||
| Boys | Girls | Total | Socially Backward | ||
| Sanskrit Colleges | 1 | 27 | 37 | 64 | 4 |
| Higher Secondary Schools | 2 | 1,459 | 89 | 1,548 | 796 |
| Secondary Schools | 2 | 692 | 533 | 1,225 | 1,091 |
| Jr. High / Middle Schools (VI-VIII) | 1 | 259 | 161 | 420 | 275 |
| Jr. Basic / U.P./ L.P. Schools (I-V) | 3 | 720 | 499 | 1,219 | 828 |
| Pre-Basic/ K.G./Nursery Schools / Crèches | 3 | 37 | 30 | 67 | 4 |
| Hostels / Students' Homes | 5 | 96 | -- | 96 | 81 |
| Vocational Training Centres | 28 | 263 | 636 | 899 | 555 |
| Non-Formal Education Centres | 10 | 163 | 155 | 318 | 318 |
| Coaching Centres | 34 | 1,459 | 1,270 | 2,729 | 2,431 |
| Others | 18 | 585 | 735 | 1,320 | 944 |
| Total | 107 | 5,760 | 4,145 | 9,905 | 7,327 |
Details of various vocational courses conducted are given below:
| Vocational Courses | Batches Trained | No. of Students | ||
| Boys | Girls | Socially Backward | ||
| Handicraft | 1 | -- | 5 | -- |
| Cutting, Tailoring, Designing, Embroidery, etc | 16 | -- | 321 | 219 |
| Repairing of Electrical & Electronic Goods | 1 | 13 | -- | 13 |
| Electrical Wiremanship, Motor Winding, etc | 1 | 21 | -- | 21 |
| Basic Computer Operations | 19 | 180 | 178 | 178 |
| Typewriting Courses | 2 | 15 | 102 | 83 |
| Others | 3 | 34 | 30 | 61 |
| Total | 43 | 263 | 636 | 575 |
| Cultural Units / Camps / Seminars | No. of Units / Programmes | No. of Participants / Delegates |
| Cultural Units (Balak Sangha, Jnana Vahini, etc) | 1 | 40 |
| Camps for Children (including those during vacations) | 1 | 90 |
| Yoga & Meditation classes | 16 | 2,128 |
| Values Education Programmes | 12 | 922 |
| Total | 30 | 3,180 |
(d) General Welfare Field: The Math provided the following services:
| Items / Help Given | Quantity / Distributed | No. of Beneficiaries | |||
| Male | Female | Child | Total | ||
| Rice / Wheat etc. (kg) | 1,656 | 41,662 | 45,016 | 15,407 | 1,02,085 |
| Ration Kits1 | 2,58,828 | 44,400 | 39,031 | 34,286 | 1,17,717 |
| Snacks /Tiffin (Plates) | 5,865 | 1,879 | 1,256 | 2,730 | 5,865 |
| Meals (Annadanam) (Plates / Food Packets) | 2,30,988 | -- | -- | -- | 2,30,988 |
| Milk (kg)2 | 3,335 | 17,156 | 9,305 | 23,422 | 49,883 |
| Hygiene Kits3 | 34,465 | 22,704 | 15,733 | 15,037 | 53,474 |
| Educational Kits4 | 41,009 | 3,035 | 857 | 2,225 | 6,117 |
| Clothes | -- | 3,472 | 19,108 | 2,286 | 24,866 |
| Blanket | -- | 7,546 | 6,284 | 170 | 14,000 |
| Pecuniary Help for | |||||
| Medical needs | -- | 5,274 | 10,078 | 5,015 | 20,367 |
| Educational needs | -- | 206 | 370 | 36 | 612 |
| Miscellaneous needs | -- | 3,179 | 1,791 | 528 | 5,498 |
| Other types of Help | -- | 2,541 | 6,631 | 111 | 9,283 |
1 Ration kits contained rice, pulses, salt, cooking oil, condiments, sugar, tea leaves, etc
2 Made from milk powder
3 Hygiene kits contained toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes, soap bars, antiseptics, nail-cutters, etc
4 Educational kits contained textbooks, notebooks, pens, pencils, erasers, geometry boxes, rulers, uniforms, etc
The Ramakrishna Math spent Rs. 2.39 crore specifically for rural and tribal development work, including the expenditure incurred by our medical and educational institutions located in rural and tribal areas.
The statistics relating to the institutions furnished in this section (i.e. Rural and Tribal Work) form part of the figures already mentioned under ‘General Welfare Work’, ‘Medical Work’ and ‘Educational Work’.