Ramakrishna Math, Cooch Behar

The centre was started in 1937 in East Bengal (now Bangladesh) and shifted to its present premises in 1949. It was made a branch of Ramakrishna Math in 2003.

Activities:

• A library with 4464 books and 13 periodicals and newspapers.
• A charitable allopathic-cum-homeopathic dispensary, which treated 8814 cases during the year.
• Cleft-lip and cleft-palate check-up and registration camps (75 cases treated).
• A students’ home with 66 boys.
• Tailoring classes for 31 women and computer training for 75 boys.
• A free coaching centre with 61 students.
• Tele-education classes for poor students sponsored by Vivekananda University.
• Values education programmes for school & college students.
• Welfare work by way of providing blankets, clothes, pecuniary help, milk, etc to the poor and needy.
• Celebration of the birthdays of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and other spiritual personalities, as also festivals like Durga Puja, Kali Puja, etc.
• Regular classes and lectures on and off the ashrama premises.