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, Ramanam Sankirtan, residential spiritual retreats, celebration of the birthdays of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda, and other religious luminaries, and the annual Ramakrishna Mela.
• Guiding study circles of local youths and devotees.
• Under the Rubber Tapping Programme, undertaken in collaboration with the Regional Rubber Board, the centre trained 87 youths.
• Pecuniary help to needy persons.

The Mission centre at Viveknagar was opened in 1989.

Activities of the Mission centre:

• A higher secondary school (affiliated with CBSE), mainly for tribal It had 821 students, including 116 borders. The attached library had 11,809 books and 17 periodicals and newspapers.
• An Industrial Training Institute with 132
• A charitable dispensary with allopathic, homeopathic and ayurvedic sections which treated 6324 cases. Besides, 2 blood donation camps were held in which 70 persons donated blood.
• A mobile medical unit, which served 6010 patients through 73 camps.
• A unit of Gadadhar Abhyudaya Prakalpa for 55 needy children.
• Welfare work by way of providing scholarships to students and pecuniary help 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 free homeopathy health camps (370 patients treated) and a homeopathy dispensary (170 patients treated).
• Weekly discourses on higher values of life.
• Daily worship, religious discourses, Ramanam Sankirtan, and celebration of the birthdays of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda.

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

Activities of Dhaleswar sub-centre:

• A charitable dispensary with allopathic, homeopathic and ayurvedic sections which treated 35,869 patients.
• A free students’ home with 24 boys.
• Daily prayer, regular religious discourses, Ramanam Sankirtan, celebration of the birthdays of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi and Swami  Vivekananda and celebration of festivals such as Durga Puja, Kali Puja, Lakshmi Puja, Christmas Eve, etc.
• Welfare work by way of distribution of food and garments to students and blankets to the poor.