Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission

RELIEF BULLETIN

(Issued by the General Secretary from the Headquarters, Belur Math)

A BRIEF REPORT AS ON OCTOBER 2002

1. Bihar Flood Relief: After Distributing food to the Flood Vitims in various parts of Bihar, our Patna centre organized medical camps at the worst-affected areas in Darbhanga and Samastipur districts in which about 3120 patients were treated.

2. Uttar Pradesh Distress Relief: Lucknow centre distributed 100 woollen blankets among 67 families of Raghunathpur and Chandrikapur villages in Sitapur district.

Gujarat Earthquake Rehabilitation:Five newly constructed school buildings were inaugurated and handed over to the authorities last month. The details are given below:

The progress report of the construction of houses and schools by the relief camps directly under the Headquarters and through our centres in Gujarat is as follows:

Houses

Schools

The estimated total cost of the Gujarat Earthquake Rehabilitation Project is nearly Rs. 16.75 crore.

1. Swami Smarananandaji the General Secretary visited Delhi on 9 September. From there he went to Turkey on the following day and participated in an inter-religious conference on Dialogue for Peace: The Contribution of Religions to Living Together organized by Cumhuriyet University, Sivas, Turkey, on 12 September. On his way back to India he visited our Bourne End centre, UK, from the 14th to 19th. He returned to Belur Math via Delhi on 21 September.

2. Kankurgachhi (Yogodyan) centre has launched a web site with address www.yogodyan.org.

3. At Antpur Math, Swami Gahananandaji a vice-president of the Order inaugurated, on 1 September, the newly renovated part of the ancestral house of Srimat Swami Premanandaji Maharaj where Holy Mother had stayed on two occasions, once in 1889 and again in 1894.

4. A teacher of our Along school received National as well as State Award for Teachers on 5 September, the Teachers’ Day.

5. At Ichapur Math, Swami Gahananandaji declared open the newly constructed dispensary building on 12 September.

6. On 20 September, Uttar Pradesh governor Sri Vishnukant Shastri inaugurated the biomedical waste management complex at Lucknow Sevashrama and released a souvenir brought out on this occasion.

7. Swami Atmasthanandaji a vice-president of the Order laid the foundation-stone for the proposed Gita Darshanam building (an audio-visual museum delineating some of the themes of the Gita and the Upanishads) at Hyderabad Math on 22 September.

8. Swami Gahananandaji laid the foundation-stone for the proposed dispensary building at Contai Sevashrama on 25 September.

9. The following centres conducted free eye camps: