Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama
Sarisha, Dt. South 24-Parganas, West Bengal 743 368, India
Phone: 03174-24 4222; Fax: 03174-24 5635;
E-mail: [email protected], [email protected];
Website: rkmsarisha.org
Institution: Boy’s School
Telefax: 24 4435; E-mail:[email protected]
Institution: Girls’ School
Phone: 24 4812
Institution: Girls’ hostel
Phone: 24 4221
Institution: PTTI (Unit-I)
Phone: 24 4699
Institution: PTTI (Unit-Il)
Phone: 24 5144
Started in 1921, this ashrama has reconstructed Sarisha village, mainly by providing education to villagers.
Activities:
- A boys’ higher secondary school with 1120 students, and a hostel with 161 boys.
- A girls’ madhyamik school with 896 students, and a hostel with 64 girls.
- Four units of junior basic school with a total of 411 boys and 409 girls.
- Two units of primary teachers’ training institute for women with 185 trainees and a hostel with 47 inmates.
- A technical section for women, which trained 20 girls in tailoring and needle work.
- Libraries: A public library with two branches had 26,014 books and 8 periodicals and newspapers, and eight libraries attached to schools had 16,910 books and 14 newspapers and periodicals.
- Medical service for rural people in collaboration with Seva Pratishthan, Kolkata, and a homeopathic dispensary, which treated 5253 cases.
- A unit of Gadadhara Abhyudaya Prakalpa with 100 poor children.
- A community centre for women with 30 trainees.
- Vocational training in food processing, tailoring, fish culture etc to 325 women of self-help groups.
- Welfare work by way of distribution of clothes, blankets, serving milk to poor children, providing educational aids and pecuniary help to the needy, etc.
- Religious activities: Daily worship, celebration of the birthdays of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi, Swami Vivekananda and other religious personalities.
