Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission, Agartala

The Math centre was started in 1966 and taken over in 1989.

Activities of the Math centre:

• Daily worship, religious classes, devotees’ conventions, and the annual Ramakrishna Mela.
• Guiding study circles for local youths and devotees.
• Under the Rubber Tapping Programme, undertaken in collaboration with the Regional Rubber Board, the centre trained 121 tribal and non-tribal youths.
• Pecuniary help to needy persons.

The Mission centre at Viveknagar was opened in 1989.

Activities of the Mission centre:

• A large educational complex, mainly for tribals. It had 850 students, including 135 tribal boarders. The attached library had 11,463 books and 20 periodicals and newspapers.
• An Industrial Training Institute with 217 students.
• A charitable dispensary with allopathic, homeopathic and ayurvedic sections which treated 17,734 cases.  Besides, a blood donation camp was held in which 42 persons donated blood.
• A mobile medical unit, which served 20,764 patients through 216 camps.
• A unit of Gadadhar Abhyudaya Prakalpa for 55 needy children.
• Welfare work by way of distribution of milk, blankets and garments to the poor and needy.

The Mission sub-centre at Gangail Road, started in 1950 and taken over in 1985, was the main centre from 1985 to 1989.

Activities of Gangail Road sub-centre:

• A free students’ home with 14 boys.
• Six health camps (338 patients treated) and a homeopathy dispensary (283 patients treated).
• Weekly discourses on values education.
• Daily worship, religious discourses, and celebration of the birth anniversaries of religious personages.

The Mission sub-centre at Dhaleswar was started in 1996.

Activities of Dhaleswar sub-centre:

• A free students’ home with 23 boys.
• Daily prayer, weekly religious discourses, and celebration of festivals such as Durga Puja, Kali Puja, Christmas Eve, etc.
• A dispensary, which treated 31,638 patients.
• Welfare work by way of providing accommodation to students and distribution of food, clothes and study materials to the poor.