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News Bulletin : 01 June 2024

 


Personalia

Revered President Maharaj will be visiting Balaram Mandir and Swamiji’s Ancestral House from 12 to 17 June.

Swami Suhitanandaji will visit the following centres in Kolkata: Kathamrita Bhavan and Shyampukur Bati from 11 to 15 June; and Baghbazar centre from 26 to 30 June.

Swami Bhajananandaji is at Belur Math.  He visited Coimbatore and Mysuru from 2 to 6 May.

Swami Girishanandaji is scheduled to visit Agartala and Imphal from 10 to 24 June, and Balaram Mandir from 28 to 30 June.

Swami Divyanandaji will be visiting Guwahati and Kharupetia from 8 to 15 June, Bardhaman on 16 and 17 June, Garbeta from 21 to 23 June, Narendrapur (Kolkata) from 26 to 29 June, and Bardhaman again on 30 June.

Swami Vimalatmanandaji will visit Jayrambati and Kamarpukur from 8 to 29 June.

All of them are keeping well.

 


Headquarters

 

The 128th Foundation Day of the Ramakrishna Mission was celebrated at Belur Math on 1 May.  Revered President Maharaj chaired the programme.  Swami Suhitanandaji, Swami Bhajananandaji, Swami Girishanandaji, the General Secretary and a few others spoke.  About 2000 monks and devotees attended the programme.

The following dignitaries visited Belur Math: Dr Mansukh Mandaviya, Union Minister of Health & Family Welfare and Chemicals & Fertilizers, on 21 May; Sri Parshottam Rupala, Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, on 22 May; Sri La Ganesan, Governor of Nagaland, on 25 May; and Sri Arjun Ram Meghwal, Union Minister of State for Law & Justice, Parliamentary Affairs and Culture, on 28 May.

 


New Branch Centres

A new Mission centre has been started in Haflong, Assam, following the taking over of Sri Ramakrishna Seva Samity, Haflong, in February.

The address of the centre is

Ramakrishna Mission,
Ramnagar, P.O. Haflong,
Dist. Dima Hasao, Assam 788819
Phone number: 99576 21213
Email id: haflong@rkmm.org

A day-long programme was held in this connection on 10 May in which many dignitaries, including two state ministers of Assam, and 350 devotees participated.  The Seva Samity was founded in 1945.

A new Math centre has been started in Kolhapur, Maharashtra, following the taking over of Ramakrishna Vivekananda Adhyatmik Kendra, in March.

The address of the centre is

Ramakrishna Math,
Survey No. 92/A/2, Village Kalamba,
Turf Thane, Pachgaon-Girgaon Road,
Taluka Karveer, Dist. Kolhapur,
Maharashtra 416007

It has a city centre at the following address:

Ramakrishna Math,
No. 29, Shivaji Housing Society, 11th Lane,
Rajarampuri, Kolhapur,
Maharashtra 416008
Phone number: 79723 25422
Email id: kolhapur@rkmm.org

The Adhyatmik Kendra was founded in 1985.


News of Branch Centres in India

The following buildings of Narainpur centre were inaugurated: (i) staff quarters at Akabeda tribal development centre on 21 March, (ii) a grain warehouse on the main campus on 29 March, (iii) a hostel building at Kachhapal tribal development centre on 1 April, (iv) staff quarters at Kundla tribal development centre on 22 May, and (v) a building for the paediatric ward on the main campus on 23 May.

Narainpur centre hosted Swami Vivekananda Under-20 Men’s National Football Championship from 12 April to 22 May.  Thirty-two teams representing 27 states and 5 union territories played in the tournament held under the aegis of All India Football Federation.  The Delhi team won the championship.

Swami Vimalatmanandaji opened the new building for the higher secondary section of our Manasadwip school on 10 May.  About 1000 people attended the function.


Revered President Maharaj consecrated the new marble statue of Sri Ramakrishna at Srinagar centre on 10 May.  Special worship, a public meeting, cultural events and a pilgrimage to sacred shrines nearby were held on 9, 10 and 11 May.  About 50 monks and 100 lay devotees took part in the ceremony.


Kharupetia centre held special worship and a public meeting on 12 May to mark the taking over of Sri Sri Ramakrishna Sevashram, Kharupetia, and the starting of a branch of the Mission there.  The General Secretary presided over the meeting.  He also inaugurated the new dining hall of the ashrama.  About 3000 people attended the programme.  This new centre was announced in the March Bulletin.


Sri P.S. Sreedharan Pillai, Governor of Goa, visited Goa centre on 16 May.


Mumbai centre concluded its year-long centenary celebration by hosting a two-day programme with special worship, public meetings and music recitals on 25 and 26 May. The  Governor of Maharashtra Sri Ramesh Bais and Swami Divyanandaji graced the occasion.  About 150 monks and 2600 devotees participated in the celebration.


Sri Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, visited Baghbazar Math and Swamiji’s Ancestral House on 28 May.


National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) awarded the A+ grade to the College of Education of Coimbatore Mission Vidyalaya for five years in the third cycle.


 

Ranchi Morabadi centre conducted a programme on 4 April to promote International Yoga Day.  About 2800 people practised yoga for an hour in the morning at 37 places that included hilltops, forests, rivers, lakes and fields.  A seminar on yoga for women empowerment was held at the centre’s auditorium in the afternoon.


Thanjavur centre hosted a symposium on poems of Swami Vivekananda on 27 April, and conducted a Ratha Yatra of the Holy Trio on 1 and 2 May.


Thirumukkudal centre launched a medical unit on 10 May.


News of Branch Centres outside India

The anniversary of the Netherlands centre was celebrated on 4 May with special talks and musical performances.

Sri Narayon Chandra Chanda, Land Minister, Government of Bangladesh, visited Rangpur centre, Bangladesh, on 29 April.


Communication Addresses

Postal Address:

There is an addition to the address of Rishikesh centre.

The full address is as follows (the addition is underlined):

Ramakrishna Math, Nava Ghat,

Mayakund, Rishikesh, Dist. Dehra Dun,

Uttarakhand 249 201

Phone Numbers:

Baliati centre, Bangladesh, has discontinued its phone number: 17150 36393.  It has a new telephone connection: 17192 05363.

Goa centre has discontinued its phone numbers: 78925 09273 & 94484 13232.  It has new mobile numbers: 99213 31314 & 70280 73123.

Rishikesh centre has discontinued its phone number 2437222.  It has a new telephone connection: 3570408.

Email IDs:

The email id of Rajamahendravaram centre has been changed from rajahmundry@rkmm.org to rajamahendravaram@rkmm.org.

Websites:

Rajamahendravaram centre has changed its website address from www.rkmrajahmundry.org to rajamahendravaram.rkmm.org.

Kathmandu centre, Nepal, has launched a website with the address: kathmandu.rkmm.org, and Rishikesh centre with the address: rishikesh.rkmm.org.

Vrindavan centre has discontinued its website: www.rkmsvrind.org.  The website with the address vrindabanhospital.rkmm.org is functional.

 


Values Education and Youth Programmes

The following centres held programmes mentioned against their names:

Basavanagudi, Bengaluru: A spiritual retreat for the former and present members of the centre’s Balaka Sangha on 19 May in which 300 people participated.

Gurugram: (i) Four teachers’ training programmes on values education in Delhi, Noida and Mumbai from 6 to 27 April attended by 282 teachers in all.  (ii) A workshop on 24 April in which 50 directors, principals and headmasters took part.  (iii) Two workshops for parents, including one in online mode, on 13 and 20 April in which altogether 40 parents were in attendance.  (iv) A workshop for senior citizens on 19 April attended by 8 persons.


Kalady: A sports camp from 1 April to 18 May in which 165 students received training in football, handball and kho-kho.


Rajamahendravaram: Cultural competitions based on a book on Swami Vivekananda were conducted from August to April in which a total of 53,500 students from 447 schools and 108  colleges took part.  (ii) A youths’ convention on 1 May in which 350 college students participated.  (iii) A programme on good parenting on 12 May attended by 95 parents.

Rajkot: A seminar on effective parenting on 19 May in which 197 people took part.

Swamiji’s Ancestral House, Kolkata: A residential youths’ camp from 17 to 20 May attended by 26 students.

Viveknagar, Agartala: A day-long youths’ camp in Madhya Bhubanban, Agartala, on 28 April in which 203 youths participated.


Summer Camps

The following centres held summer camps for students.  The programmes included chanting, bhajans, yogasanas, values education classes, etc.

Sl. Centre Duration of the camp Participants
    1. Basavanagudi, Bengaluru 21 April to 5 May 176
    2. Chennai Math 7 to 22 May 46
    3. Davanagere 28 April to 5 May 54
    4. Halasuru, Bengaluru 28 April to 12 May 74
    5. Hyderabad 14 to 28 April 200
29 April to 12 May 1200
14 to 26 May 1200
    6. Kadapa 5 to 19 May 125
    7. Kochi 3 to 7 April 55 (altogether)
24 to 28 April
    8. Limbdi 24 to 29 April 300
    9. Madurai 22 April to 10 May 118
 10. Ponnampet 28 April to 4 May 40
 11. Rajamahendravaram 25 April to 19 May 184
 12. Rajkot 5 to 19 May 267
 13. Silchar 4 & 5 May 423
 14. Thanjavur 5 to 11 May 30
19 to 25 May 30
 15. Tirupati 1 to 15 May 60
 16. Visakhapatnam 5 to 19 May 105
 17. Yadadri Bhuvanagiri 21 April to 26 May 100

Eye Camps and other Healthcare Services

 

The following centres conducted medical camps.  A summary of the services provided by them is given below.

India:

Bankura: Eye camps from 29 March to 28 May in which a total of 878 eye patients were screened, 149 were operated on and 145 were given spectacles.

Basavanagudi, Bengaluru: A special retreat on 4 May for children affected by type-1 diabetes.  It was attended by 41 children and their parents.


Chennai Math: (i) An eye camp in Pazhaveri village, Kanchipuram district, on 28 April in which  66 patients were checked; 10 were referred for eye surgery; and 41 were given spectacles.  The camp was conducted with the help of Chengalpattu and Thirumukkudal centres. (ii) Another eye camp at Irumbedu village, in association with Chengalpattu centre, on 19 May in which 40 patients were checked; 13 were referred for eye surgery; and 10 were given spectacles.


Digboi: (i) A cataract detection camp on 28 April in which 70 people were checked and 23 of them were referred for surgery.  (ii) A medical camp on 19 May in which 46 people were treated.


Gourhati: An eye camp on 23 April: 46 patients were treated and 3 were operated on in an eye hospital.

Gurap: An eye camp on 14 May in which 63 patients were checked; subsequently, 15 of them were operated on at an eye hospital.


Jammu: (i) Held a medical camp on 17 May in which 13 doctors treated 402 patients.  (ii) Arranged cataract surgery for 9 patients on 21 May.


Kanpur: A medical camp in Koriyan village of Kanpur Nagar district on 28 April in which 120 patients were treated.


Khetri: 27 eye patients were checked on 26 May, and subsequently 13 were operated on for cataract at an eye hospital.

Lucknow: 4416 eye patients were checked and 360 were operated on and given spectacles in April.

 


 

School Results Bulletin

The results obtained by the Secondary (Class 10) and Higher Secondary (Class 12) students of our schools are given below.

CBSE (Central Board of Secondary Education)

School Exam Students appeared 1st 2nd 3rd Compart- Failed Star
Div. Div. Div. mental Marks
Aalo Class 10 97 76 20 1 26
Class 12 105 56 45 1 3 14
Deoghar Class 10 76 76 70
Class 12 66 66 62
Gwalior Class 10 77 38 21 5 13 16
Class 12 101 51 5 12 33 17
Hatamuniguda Class 10 78 69 9 39
Class 12 62 59 3 31
Imphal Class 10 90 90 88
Katihar Class 10 102 83 17 2 50
Narottam Nagar Class 10 39 36 3 20
Class 12 30 29 1 12
Viveknagar, Agartala Class 10 108 108 89
Class 12 66 66 42

Imphal: A class-10 student secured 1st position in Manipur state.

Viveknagar, Agartala: In a repeat of the last year’s performance, a class-10 student secured 1st position in the northeast region.  The Chief Ministers of Tripura and Assam congratulated the school on this achievement.


Tamil Nadu Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education /

Directorate of Matriculation Schools

Exam Students 1st Div. 2nd Div. 3rd Div. Failed Star
appeared Marks
Chengalpattu Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Class 10 84 54 22 2 6 31
Class 12 103 84 15 2 2 30
Chengalpattu Boys’ Higher Secondary School
Class 10 143 37 64 18 24 10
Class 12 159 76 75 2 6 12
Chengalpattu Girls’ Higher Secondary School
Class 10 124 77 32 5 10 42
Class 12 142 98 41 1 2 26
Chengam Higher Secondary School
Class 10 45 38 5 2 26
Class 12 32 27 5 17
Chennai Math Girls’ School
Class 10 110 77 29 4 39
Class 12 111 74 33 2 2 35
Chennai Mission Ashrama Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Class 10 137 113 21 3 66
Class 12 100 80 18 2 40
Chennai Mission Ashrama Higher Secondary School (South)
Class 10 77 42 27 1 7 18
Class 12 91 65 22 3 1 19
Chennai Mission Ashrama Higher Secondary School (Main)
Class 10 146 62 80 4 59
Class 12 158 63 53 40 2 46
Chennai Sarada Vidyalaya Matriculation Higher Secondary School, Madley Street
Class 10 33 19 2 10 2 17
Class 12 37 30 7 17
Chennai Sarada Vidyalaya Model Higher Secondary School, Burkit Road
Class 10 153 88 39 2 24 45
Class 12 178 131 41 5 1 56
Chennai Sarada Vidyalaya Girls’ Higher Secondary School, Usman Road
Class 10 221 110 66 6 39 40
Class 12 258 165 76 8 9 84
Chennai Students’ Home Residential High School
Class 10 45 27 12 5 1 14
Coimbatore Mission Swami Shivananda Higher Secondary School
Class 10 212 179 25 2 6 117
Class 12 311 282 29 172
Coimbatore Mission Vidyalaya High School
Class 10 43 43 30
Malliankaranai High School
Class 10 42 37 4 1 21
Nattarampalli Matriculation High School
Class 10 27 27 21
Villupuram Matriculation Higher Secondary School
Class 10 182 168 13 1 129
Class 12 177 172 5 113
Villupuram Matriculation School, Salamedu
Class 10 40 39 1 29

 


West Bengal Board of Secondary Education: Class 10

Sl. No.        School Students appeared 1st Div. 2nd Div. 3rd Div. Failed Star Marks Highest Marks #
1 Asansol 93 93 82 676
2 Baranagar Mission 149 142 7 107 684
3 Jayrambati 115 106 9 83 677
4 Jhargram 47 27 19 1 1 591
5 Kamarpukur 126 119 7 105 690
6 Malda 102 102 96 683
7 Manasadwip 97 90 7 48 683
8 Medinipur 104 101 3 87 684
9 Narendrapur: (a) Vidyalaya 129 129 129 691
(b) Blind Boys’ Academy 17 17 17 586
10 Purulia 92 92 92 679
11 Rahara 195 178 17 114 670
12 Ramharipur 125 90 33 2 61 677
13 Sargachhi 123 115 8 68 670
14 Sarisha: (a) Boys’ School 118 98 20 51 671
(b) Girls’ School 157 132 24 1 83 660
15 Taki 88 76 12 50 664

 

# Marks out of 700

State ranks in Class-10 Examination:

Rank School No. of Students
3 Narendrapur 1
4 Kamarpukur 1
6 Narendrapur 1
7 Narendrapur 1
9 Narendrapur 2
10 Baranagar Mission 1
Medinipur 1
Narendrapur 1

West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education: Class 12

Sl.

No.

School Students

appeared

1st

Div.

2nd

Div.

Star

Marks

Highest

Marks #

1. Baranagar Mission 43 43 21 468
2. Jhargram 64 64 50 469
3. Malda 88 88 88 494
4. Medinipur 62 62 54 480
5. Narendrapur: (a) Vidyalaya 112 112 112 495
 (b) Blind Boys’ Academy 12 12 12 469
6. Purulia 55 55 55 468
7. Rahara 127 124 3 100 488
8. Sargachhi 53 51 2 36 480
9. Sarisha 52 50 2 45 488

# Marks out of 500

State ranks in Class-12 Examination:

Rank School No. of Students
2 Narendrapur 1
3 Malda 1
5 Malda 1
6 Narendrapur 1
9 Narendrapur 2
Rahara 1
Sarisha 1
10 Narendrapur 2

 


Other Boards

Exam Students appeared 1st Div. 2nd Div. 3rd Div. Compartmental / Failed Star Marks
Supplementary
Bhubaneswar (Odisha Board of Secondary Education)
Class 10 49 24 20 5 6
Bistupur School, Jamshedpur (Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations)
Class 10 88 79 9 42
Burmamines School, Jamshedpur (CISCE)
Class 10 27 24 3 11
Indranagar School, Jamshedpur (CISCE)
Class 10 43 23 18 2 8
Sakchi High School, Jamshedpur (CISCE)
Class 10 55 38 15 1 1 17
Sidhgora School, Jamshedpur (CISCE)
Class 10 147 104 39 2 2 56
Class 12 93 50 33 3 7 15
Kalady (Kerala Board)
Class 10 156 145 11 97
Class 12 165 151 2 12 114
Kanpur (Uttar Pradesh Board)
Class 10 150 111 34 5 26
Kozhikode (Kerala Board)
Class 10 466 426 37 3 273
Class 12 178 119 11 48 85
Mysuru Vidyashala (Karnataka Board)
Class 10 94 92 2 85
Class 12 52 52 52
Narainpur (Chhattisgarh Board)
Class 10 157 115 39 2 1 44
Class 12 171 131 37 3 34
Thrissur (Kerala Board)
Class 10 176 158 17 1 120
Class 12 185 105 22 58 41
Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh Board of Secondary Education)
Class 10 52 48 2 2 30

(In all these figures, Star Marks means 75% or more marks, 1st Div. 60% or more marks, 2nd Div. 45% or more but less than 60% marks, and 3rd Div. less than 45% marks).

Twenty-one students of our Dhaka school, Bangladesh, appeared in the Secondary (Class 10) examination conducted by Secondary and Higher Secondary Education Board, Dhaka.  Nineteen of them passed in the first division and the remaining two in the second division.


Obituaries

We record with sorrow the passing away of two of our brother monks.


Swami Gangadharanandaji (Purnendu Maharaj) passed away at our Varanasi hospital on 2 May at 7.45 pm.  He was 81.  Initiated by Swami Madhavanandaji Maharaj, he joined the order in 1967 at Manasadwip centre and received sannyasa diksha from Swami Vireshwaranandaji Maharaj in 1977.  He rendered his services at Manasadwip, Dinajpur (in Bangladesh), Seva Pratishthan, Kankurgachhi, Varanasi Advaita Ashrama and Tamluk centres.  In Tamluk centre, he spent a long 25 years, including 11 years as the head.  Since 2012, he had been living a retired life, staying mainly at our two centres in Varanasi.  The swami was self-reliant and sociable by nature.


Swami Muktasangananda (Santosh Maharaj), aged 71, expired at Seva Pratishthan, Kolkata, on 5 May at 8.15 a.m.  Initiated by Swami Nirvananandaji Maharaj, he joined the order at Belur Math in 1977 and received sannyasa diksha from Swami Gambhiranandaji Maharaj in 1987.  He served at Belur Math (as a sevak of his guru, and as an acharya at the Veda Vidyalaya and Probationers’ Training Centre) and in Belgharia, Baghbazar, Ichapur, Karimganj, Gourhati, Shyampukur Bati and Swamiji’s Ancestral House centres.  Austere and unassuming by nature, the swami was knowledgeable in Sanskrit and Vedic literature.


 

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