Personalia
Revered President Maharaj will visit Rahara, Belgharia and Kalyani from 7 to 13 April.
Swami Suhitanandaji is in Bhuj and will return to Belur Math on 10 April after visiting Delhi, Vrindavan and Gurugram. Later, he will be visiting Chandipur and Gurap from 21 to 27 April, and Kamarpukur, Jayrambati and Ghatal from 29 April to 7 May.
Swami Bhajananandaji is at Belur Math.
Swami Girishanandaji is in Durgapur and will return to Belur Math on 14 April after visiting Narendrapur. He is scheduled to visit Baghbazar Math from 17 to 21 April, and Kalyani from 22 to 27 April.
Swami Divyanandaji will visit Swamiji’s Ancestral House from 1 to 5 April. Subsequently, he is scheduled to visit Mathabhanga and Tufanganj (both in North Bengal), Sahudangi and Siliguri from 7 to 13 April, Ranchi and Hazaribagh from 17 to 20 April, and Jaleswar (Odisha) and Medinipur from 24 to 27 April.
Swami Vimalatmanandaji will visit Chandigarh from 7 to 10 April, and Mumbai, Nashik and Sakwar from 17 to 26 April.
All of them are keeping well.
Headquarters
Sri R N Ravi, Governor of West Bengal, visited Belur Math on 18 March.
New Mission Sub-centres
Indas Sri Ramakrishna Sevashram in Bankura district was taken over and made a sub-centre of Somsar centre in March.
Its address is
Ramakrishna Mission,
Hajrapara, Indas,
Dist. Bankura, West Bengal 722205.
The Sevashram was founded in 1999.
Under the inspiration of Swami Ranganathanandaji Maharaj, a small ashrama was established in 2000 at a village near Lonavala, Maharashtra, to serve the local tribal community. Subsequently, the property was gifted to the Ramakrishna Mission in June 2025. The ashrama is now officially recognised as a sub-centre of the Sakwar branch.
The address of the sub-centre is
Ramakrishna Mission,
Village Borivali, near Lonavala,
Taluka Maval, Dist. Pune, Maharashtra 412106.
News of Branch Centres in India
Sri Aparesh Kumar Singh, Chief Justice of the High Court of Telangana, paid a visit to Hyderabad centre on 19 February, the sacred birthday of Sri Ramakrishna.
Revered President Maharaj inaugurated the centenary celebration of Ootacamund Math (1926 2026) held from 25 to 27 February. He dedicated the centre’s welcome gate on 25 February, a statue of Swamiji at a nearby school, and a multipurpose hall named ‘Ramakrishna Math, Ooty Centenary Hall’ at a nearby village on 26 February. He also released a commemorative volume on 27 February, brought out to mark the occasion.
Revered President Maharaj opened the Nakshatra Vanam—a garden comprising 108 trees representing various planetary alignments, and a bronze statue of Lord Nataraja (Shiva)—at Coimbatore Mission centre on 2 March.
Revered President Maharaj consecrated the renovated shrine on the Panighat campus (old ashrama) of Vrindavan centre on 6 March. He also dedicated the oncology block at the centre’s hospital on 7 March, the holy birthday of Swami Yoganandaji Maharaj. Following this, the building that houses the oncology block and a fully equipped cancer centre was formally inaugurated by the President of India, Smt. Droupadi Murmu, in the presence of Swami Vimalatmanandaji, Smt. Anandiben Patel, Governor of Uttar Pradesh, and other dignitaries.
At Gwalior centre, Swami Divyanandaji inaugurated the renovated dispensary, named ‘Sri Ramakrishna Arogya Dham’, and the newly built book showroom on 6 March.
Sri George Kurian, Union Minister of State for Minority Affairs, Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying, visited Pala centre on 14 March.
Sri Ashim Kumar Ghosh, Governor of Haryana, participated in the annual celebration of Chandigarh ashrama on 23 March.
Swami Divyanandaji inaugurated the newly refurbished induction-based community kitchen, named ‘Maa Annapurna Bhandar’, at Seva Pratishthan, Kolkata, on 23 March.
Thanjavur centre, in association with another organization, conducted the Vivekananda Sports Festival at a nearby place on 5 February, in which 6000 students from 9 government schools took part.
Asansol centre held a sports meet from 20 to 28 February, in association with another establishment, in which 743 students from 9 educational institutions in Paschim Bardhaman and Purulia districts participated.
Swami Divyanandaji inaugurated a lift in the monks’ quarters building at Kalyani centre on 23 February.
At Nabadwip centre, Swami Suhitanandaji dedicated the Swami Vivekananda Samskriti Kendra, a unit for the development of local youths, on 27 February.
Swami Divyanandaji laid the foundation stone for the proposed monks’ quarters building at Gwalior centre on 6 March.
At Ramharipur school, Swami Vimalatmanandaji opened a STEM lab on 7 March. (STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics).
Revered President Maharaj inaugurated the ‘Sarada School of Arts’ at Gurugram centre on 8 March.
Sri Vinay Kumar, Ambassador of India to Russia, visited Kankurgachhi centre on 17 March.
Swami Suhitanandaji laid the foundation stone for the proposed dispensary of Ahmedabad centre on its Lekhamba campus on 23 March.
Awards and Recognitions
A class-3 student of our Malda school secured (a) first rank in the State Olympiad Combined Test, conducted by the State Olympiad Foundation, Malda, on 22 December, and (b) second rank in Mathematics and third rank in English in the All Bengal Talent Hunt examinations conducted by Naba-paribartan-dhara, Kolkata.
A student of the Viveknagar school, Agartala, secured first ranks in three distinct Kung Fu disciplines at the South Asian Martial Arts Games held in Guwahati by the Global International Martial Arts Federation from 27 to 29 January.
Another student from the school qualified in the Indian National Mathematical Olympiad conducted by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai. He is among the few students selected nationwide to get training for the International Mathematical Olympiad.
Communication Addresses
Phone Numbers: Gurap centre has discontinued its landline number 232400. It has a new phone number: 89180 38682.
Websites: Jayrambati centre has changed its website address from to http://www.rkmjoyrambati.org to jayrambati.rkmm.org
Rourkela centre has launched a website with the address rkmrourkela.in
Values Education and Youth Programmes
The following centres held programmes mentioned against their names:
- Basavanagudi, Bengaluru: A youth awareness programme on 14 March, in which 125 college students participated.
- Chandigarh: Essay-writing and group discussion competitions on 20 March, in which 29 college students took part.
- Gurugram: (i) Seven values education workshop for teachers and principals in different parts of the country from 12 February to 23 March, in which a total of 133 teachers were in attendance. (ii) Two online values education programmes on 14 February and 14 March, in which altogether 19 corporate professionals took part.
- Hyderabad: Two values education programmes at two villages in Medak district on 7 March, in which a total of 500 students participated.
- Jalpaiguri: A motivational talk on 23 February, in which 293 youths, devotees and others participated.
- Konampatti: A values education programme at a nearby school on 27 February, in which 400 students were in attendance.
- Manasadwip: A youths’ convention on 9 March, in which 310 students took part.
- Raipur: Four personality development camps at four schools and colleges in Khairagarh and Baloda Bazar districts of Chhattisgarh on 26 February and 20 March, attended by a total of 453 students and 73 teachers.
- Rajamahendravaram: An online values education programme on 13 March, in which 10,846 students and 874 teachers from 205 government schools participated.
- Salem: Sixteen personality development classes for youths at nearby educational institutions from 25 July to 13 March, in which a total of 1028 students were in attendance.
- Thanjavur: Fourteen values education programmes for youths and teachers from 30 January to 21 March, in which a total of 1057 people participated.
- Yadadri Bhuvanagiri: A motivational programme for youths on 14 and 15 March, in which 100 youths took part.
Eye Camps and Other Healthcare Services
The following centres conducted medical camps. A summary of the services provided by them is given below.
- Bankura: Eye camps from 28 December to 27 March: 1478 patients were screened, 248 were operated on, and 117 were given spectacles.
- Barisha, Kolkata: A diagnostic camp in collaboration with a diagnostic centre in Kolkata on 1 March, in which 112 patients were examined.
- Chennai Math: An eye camp in Malliankaranai, with the help of Chengalpattu centre, on 8 March, in which 88 patients were screened; subsequently, 44 were given spectacles, and 16 underwent cataract surgery at an eye hospital in Chennai.
- Coimbatore Mission: Four medical camps (1 dental, 1 eye, 1 ENT and 1 general) in rural and tribal areas of Coimbatore district from 8 to 15 March, in which a total of 236 patients were treated.
- Digboi: A medical camp on 8 February, in which 33 patients were treated.
- Gourhati: Six eye camps from 28 October to 24 March, in association with another organization: a total of 329 patients were examined; 53 of them underwent surgery at an eye hospital in Howrah and received spectacles.
- Gurap: Two eye camps on 10 February and 10 March: A total of 92 patients were checked; 21 of them underwent cataract surgery at an eye hospital in Howrah.
- Jamshedpur: Four eye camps from 27 January to 8 March, in which a total of 220 patients were screened; 129 of them underwent cataract surgery at a nearby hospital.
- Kalyani: A medical check-up camp and a blood donation camp on 22 February, in which 80 patients were screened, and 64 people donated blood.
- Khetri: Two eye camps on 22 February and 22 March, in which a total of 153 patients were screened; 77 underwent cataract surgery at an eye hospital in Jaipur.
- Lucknow: Eye camps in February: 4669 patients were examined, of whom 427 underwent surgery and received spectacles.
- Madurai: An eye camp on 15 March, in which 147 patients were screened. Of them, 67 were operated on for cataract at an eye hospital, and 13 were given spectacles.
- Malda: A cleft lip and palate camp in association with another organization on 2 March, in which 119 patients were examined.
- Manasadwip: (i) Conducted four eye camps from November to February, in which altogether 366 patients were treated. (ii) Arranged cataract surgery at an eye hospital for a total of 31 patients from November to February.
- Nabadwip: A blood donation camp on 8 February, in which 60 people donated blood.
- Naora: (i) Fourteen medical camps from September to March, in which a total of 2198 patients were treated. (ii) Two cataract surgery camps on 4 December and 28 January, where, in all, 80 patients underwent surgery.
- Nattarampalli: An eye camp on 15 March: 287 patients were checked; subsequently, 85 were operated on for cataract in an eye hospital, and 38 were given spectacles.
- Porbandar: An eye camp on 13 March, where 25 patients were checked; later on, 7 were operated on for cataract in an eye hospital.
- Rahara, Kolkata: A medical camp at Bangaon block, North 24 Parganas district, on 1 March, in which 935 patients were treated.
- Rajamahendravaram: (i) An epilepsy camp on 8 March, in which 563 patients were treated. (ii) A medical camp at Rampachodavaram in Polavaram district on 15 March, in which 416 patients were treated.
- Ramharipur: A cataract surgery camp, in association with another organization, on 12 March, in which 16 patients underwent cataract surgery.
- Ranchi Morabadi: Eye camps from 1 February to 20 March: 732 patients were checked, and 47 underwent cataract surgery.
- Salem: Three eye camps at nearby places from 22 February to 15 March: in all, 373 patients were checked; 76 of them were operated on for cataract in an eye hospital, and 79 were given spectacles.
- Saradapitha, Belur: A blood donation camp at Sikshanamandira (College of Teacher Education) on 24 March, in which 44 people donated blood.
- Sribhumi (Karimganj): Two eye camps on 11 and 16 March: in all, 112 patients were checked, and 21 were operated on for cataract.
- Tamluk: A medical camp on 23 February, in which 200 patients were treated.
- Thanjavur: Two medical camps on 22 February and 22 March, in which a total of 145 patients were treated.
- Thirumukkudal: An eye camp, in association with an eye hospital in Chennai, on 22 March, in which 89 patients were checked; subsequently, 6 of them underwent surgery in an eye hospital, and 48 were given spectacles.
- Viveknagar, Agartala: Medical camps on 11 and 15 February at Gomati and West Tripura districts, in which a total of 130 patients were treated.
Outside India
- Durban, South Africa: (i) Two medical camps in Etete and Pietermaritzburg on 8 February and 15 March respectively, in which a total of 1041 patients were treated. (ii) A blood donation camp at Pietermaritzburg on 15 March, in which 20 units of blood were collected.