Ramakrishna Mission Swami Vivekananda’s Ancestral House and Cultural Centre, Kolkata

This branch of Ramakrishna Mission was started at the birthplace and ancestral house of Swami Vivekananda in 2004.

Activities:

• A memorial shrine and a meditation hall where monthly meditation classes and weekly religious classes were held.
• A textbook library with 6011 books.
• A unit offering facilities for learning Spoken English, German, French and Sanskrit (3199 students)
• A computer training centre with 1828 students.
• A youth forum with 25 students.
• A non-formal education centre with 14 slum children who were also supplied with nutritious food and clothing.
• Two free coaching centres one at the centre (57 students) and another at Sundarban area (100 students). The children were also served with breakfast, books, clothes, etc.
• A museum on the life and teachings of Swami Vivekananda.
• A research centre within the ambit of Vivekananda University as an off-campus centre.
• A charitable allopathic-cum-homeopathic dispensary, which treated 1218 patients this year.
• Regular seminars, youth conventions, etc.
• Three units of Gadadhara Abhyudaya Prakalpa with 200 poor children.
• Welfare work by way of providing medical help, educational help, pecuniary help and distributing blankets to the needy.