Vivekananda Society, Jamshedpur, was started in 1920. It was made a branch of the Mission in 1927 and renamed ‘Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda Society’.
Activities:
- A higher secondary school.
- Five secondary schools.
- Four English-medium secondary schools.
- Five middle schools.
- An upper primary school.
- Vocational training: Conducted advanced certificate course in computers for rural youths and trained tribal boys and girls in typewriting.
- A non-formal school for children; and a centre of National Institute of Open Schooling.
- A students’ home for students, particularly from rural and backward communities.
- A public library and a reading room.
- A mobile medical unit for poor people.
- Three homeopathic dispensaries in remote villages of East Singhbhum district.
- A unit of Gadadhar Abhyudaya Prakalpa.
- Religious activities included daily worship, fortnightly Ramanam Sankirtan, celebration of the birth anniversaries of Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda, and festivals like Durga Puja, Kali puja etc. Weekly classes and occasional lectures were conducted.
- Welfare work by way of feeding the poor, providing pecuniary help and blankets to the needy, uniforms and scholarships to poor and needy students.