Ramakrishna Mission Boys’ Home, Rahara, Kolkata

This centre, which was started in 1944, is primarily a residential educational institution for orphans and poor boys. However, a good number of day scholars also attend various schools and colleges run by the centre.

Activities:

• An orphanage for boys, where general education and training in crafts are provided.
• A degree college offering courses in graduate and postgraduate levels in science subjects. It also offers one-year certificate courses in computer applications.
• A residential college of education.
• A Primary Teachers’ Training Institute (PTTI).
• A higher secondary school (class 8 to 12).
• A junior high school (class 5 to 8).
• A junior basic school (class 1 to 4).
  
• An industrial training centre with a higher secondary vocational institute.
• Two hostels.
• A vocational training centre providing training in electrical works, carpentry, printing press and tailoring.
• Two units of Gadadhar Abhyudaya Prakalpa.
• A non-formal (junior) school and a night school.
• A district library with 61,806 books and 31 periodicals.
• An allopathic-cum-homeopathic dispensary and a 52-bed medical ward for the students and staff.
• Eye camps and blood donation camps.
• Welfare activities: Providing food, clothes, blankets and pecuniary and educational aid.
• Religious activities: Daily worship, Ramnam Sankirtan on Ekadashi days, regular discourses, occasional spiritual retreats, and celebration of the birthdays of the Holy Trio and major religious festivals.