Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Ranchi (Morabadi)
Swami Vishuddhananda Road, Morabadi, Ranchi, Jharkhand 834 008, India
0651-255 1970 & 255 1008
0651-255 2427
[email protected]
www.rkmranchi.org
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.
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