Ramakrishna Mission, New Delhi

This centre was started in 1927 and made a branch of the Mission in 1930.

Activities:

• A public library with a separate section for children. It had 42,826 books and 152 periodicals.
• A  reading room  for students preparing for various competitive examinations.
• A computer training centre.
• A coaching centre.
• Two cultural centres.
• A homeopathic dispensary.
• A mobile medical unit and performed cataract surgeries free of cost.
• Karol Bagh clinic: (a) A TB clinic at Karol Bagh. Under the home treatment scheme, the clinic extended its medical services to patients who were unable to come to the clinic; (b) A medical centre on the TB clinic premises, providing specialist consultancy services.
• A permanent exhibition and a 3D animation film on the life and teaching of Swami Vivekananda, and a 4D film based on the Kathopanishad.
• Under the Awakened Citizen Programme, a three-year graded values education programme for school students from class 6 to 9, 112 teachers’ training workshops and principals’ orientation programmes were held. In these programmes teachers and principals, mainly from CBSE-affiliated schools, took part. Schools were visited by the resource persons and classroom observations were recorded.
• Under Awakening, values education programme for school students from class 1 to 5, teachers’ training workshops were held.
• Under ARISE, a parents’ motivation programme.
• Welfare activities: Providing food, ration kits, blankets and pecuniary and educational aid.
• Religious activities: Religious discourses, spiritual retreats and celebration of the birthdays of the Holy Trio and major religious festivals.