Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Morabadi, Ranchi

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

Activities:

• Divyayan, a free residential training institute with a Krishi Vigyan Kendra, provides vocational training to village youths in agriculture, dairy, poultry, farming, horticulture, beekeeping, farm machinery and social service.
• Publication of a quarterly bilingual magazine in Hindi and English Prabudhha Gram.
• Activities at the off-campus centre of RKMVERI (Deemed University), Belur:
  • Faculty of Agriculture, Rural & Tribal Development (FARTD) offering MSc and postgraduate diploma courses.
  • Skill development training to rural, tribal youths in association with Divyayan in the fields of dairy, poultry, beekeeping, lac cultivation, piggery, goatery and organic farming.
• A distance education centre of the National Institute of Open Schooling.
• A public library with 23,655 books and 70 periodicals.
• A mobile audio-visual unit that screened video shows before villagers.
• Village extension and follow-up programmes:
  • Agricultural camps (Kisan Gosthi).
  • Farmers’ fairs (Kisan Mela).
  • Front-line demonstration camps, used to test the suitability of newly developed technologies.
  • On-farm trials, for the adaptation of recommended technologies in local conditions and refinement of existing technology.
  • Awareness programmes in health, values and environment.
  • Soil testing, distribution of seeds, vermicompost, earthworms, mushrooms, spawn packets, tools & equipment, bio pesticides, etc, and veterinary services.
• (a) An allopathic-cum-homeopathic dispensary, and (b) Eye camps.
• A mobile medical unit.
• A Balak Sangha unit.
• Nine units of Gadadhar Abhyudaya Prakalpa.
• A unit of Vivekananda Abhyudaya Prakalpa.
• Thirty-seven coaching centres.
• Welfare activities: Scholarships were provided to students.
• Religious activities: Regular worship, religious discourses, occasional spiritual retreats and celebration of the birthdays of the Holy Trio and other spiritual luminaries.