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Relief and Rehabilitation Work :
Right from 1897, when Ramakrishna Mission was founded, it has conducted extensive relief operations for the victims of natural disasters such as cyclone, flood, earthquake and fire almost every year and man-made calamities such as riots. In 2003-04 a sum of 26 million rupees was spent for the spent for the benefit of more than 255 thousand people belonging to about 759 villages. A summary of some of the major rehabilitation projects undertaken by the Mission for victims of disasters in recent years is given below.

Educational Work :
The Math and Mission run 12 colleges, 428 school of different grades, 2 schools of languages, 4 polytechnics, 6 junior technical and industrial schools, 119 hostels, 6 orphanages, 2 centers for the disabled, 1 schools of Vedic education, and 270 non-formal education centers. The total expenditure incurred for these activities was about 910 million rupees during 2003-04

 

Medical Service :
During 2003-04 the Math and Mission had 15 hospitals (with 2032 beds), 120 outdoor dispensaries, and 46 mobile dispensaries (which serve mostly in rural an tribal areas).

The meant primarily for the poor. Nearly 8 million patients were treated in these medical centers in 2003-04. Besides these, a considerable number of medical camps are organized, mostly in rural areas, where thousands of patients are treated and more than 3000 operated on for cataract free of cost every year. The Math and Mission run 5 nurses training centers where about 400 students are trained in nursing every year. Two old-age homes for men and one for women are maintained which have 67 and 32 inmates respectively. During 2003-04 a sum of about 320 million rupees was spent on medical service.

Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Chapra, relatively new compared to the more than 100 years of the Ramakrishna Mission (started in 1897 by swami Vivekananda) , taking up ore and more various services activates. Some of these are:

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