Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama
P.O. Sargachhi Ashrama, Dt. Murshidabad, West Bengal 742 408, India
Phone: 03482-232 222 & 23 2444; Telefax: 03482-23 2300; Email: [email protected]; Website: www.rkmsargachi.org
Sub Centre(s):
Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama
153 R. N. Tagore Road, Berhampore, West Bengal 742 401, India
Phone: 03482-25 4127
Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama
(Sevavrata), Village Bairgachhi, P.O. Kalitaladiar, Dt. Murshidabad, West Bengal 742 165, India
Started in 1897 by Swami Akhandananda (a monastic disciple of Sri Ramakrishna), this is the oldest centre of the Ramakrishna Mission.
Activities:
- A high school with 1075 boys.
- Three units of junior basic school with 613 boys and 114 girls.
- A residential junior basic teachers’ training institute with 98 boys.
- Two hostels with 78 students.
- Seven free coaching centres with 579 students.
- Six libraries with reading rooms: 13,173 books and 25 periodicals and newspapers.
- A charitable dispensary with allopathic, homeopathic and ayurvedic sections, which treated 38,275 cases this year.
- A mobile medical unit, which treated 9141 cases.
- Welfare work by way of distribution of milk, clothes, blankets, etc and providing pecuniary, medical and educational aids to the needy.
- Religious activities: Daily worship and observance of the birthdays of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda and other spiritual luminaries.
- Activities at Berhampore sub-centre (153, R. N. Tagore Road, Dist. Murshidabad, PIN 742 101) :
- A students’ home with 8 college students,
- A library with 1614 books and 3 periodicals, and
- Daily prayers and weekly religious
