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RAMHARIPUR RAMAKRISHNA MISSION HIGH SCHOOL

Ramharipur Ramakrishna Mission High School is a unit of Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, situated at Kanyapur Road, Asansol, which is a branch of Ramakrishna Mission with headquarters at Belur Math. It is a boy's High School affiliated to the West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education and West Bengal Board of Secondary Education.

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Location - Ramharipur, Bankura

Ramharipur Ramakrishna Mission High School Vill, Charadihi, West Bengal 722203 081599 92080 https://maps.app.goo.gl/BWGSrmye2di1BFke6

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History -

Genesis of the Ashrama

The district of Bankura has already occupied a significant place in the history of West Bengal. For several centuries people of Bankura struggled a lot to develop a rich religious culture in the fields fine Arts, such as music, paintings, sculpture, dance together with ancient traditional celebrations and festivals of various tribes living all over the district. People take pride to say that Holy Mother, Sri Saradadevi, Supreme-power of the universe incarnated at Jayramabati in Bankura.

A severe drought struck West Bengal in 1915, and the worst affected district happened to be Bankura. At this difficult time of the afflicted people of Bankura, the monks of the Ramakrishna Math, Bankura came forward to help them. Under the stewardship of Revered Swami Maheswaranandji Maharaj (1890-1973), popularly known as ‘Daktaar’ Maharaj, and the then head of the Ramakrishna Math Bankura, a major famine relief work was conducted in Birrah village and its surrounding areas. Swami Sailajananda was sent from the Bankura center to conduct the relief work. He stayed at the Manasa Mandir of Birrah village and distributed the relief items. Several enthusiastic people of Birrah village also came forward to lend a helping hand in this noble mission. In course of the ongoing relief work, Revered ‘Daktaar’ Maharaj used to conduct religious discourses to the villagers in the evenings, thus introducing the life and teachings of the Holy Trio to them. These discourses brought a new thrill in the village life. After the relief work was over Revered ‘Daktaar’ Maharaj and his team went back to Bankura, but he used to visit Birrah from time to time and conduct religious discourses as well as offer medical help to the villagers. At a point the villagers prayed to Revered ‘Daktaar’ Maharaj to kindly consider opening a sub-center of the Bankura Math in Birrah village. Moved by the sincerity of the villagers and at their ardent request, Revered ‘Daktaar’ Maharaj sent Swami Swaswarupananda to Birrah village in 1916. He started daily puja of Sri Ramakrishna in the Manasa Mandir and continued religious discourses as before. This may be considered as the humble beginning of the present Ashrama at Ramharipur.

The Great Daktaar Maharaj

Revered ‘Daktaar’ Maharaj, a direct disciple of Holy Mother Sarada Devi, was a very well acclaimed allopath physician in Bankura. Later he started homeopathy treatment to help people in the rural areas. Many poor and ailing people were completely cured by his healing touch. He was revered in the entire district of Bankura as a legendary figure, Dhanvantari, in the world of medical treatment.

Land was Gifted on 6th March 1920:

It is said that once the nephew of the zamindar of Nityanandapur village, named Ramhari, was completely cured by his treatment. As a token of gratitude to the Swami, the zamindar donated 47 acres of land in the village of Charadihi. This land was registered in the name of Br. Ashu Maharaj and Revered Daktaar Maharaj on 6thMarch 1920, and the Ashrama was shifted from Birrah village to this new piece of land. Later several other eminent personnel from surrounding areas also donated land for the Ashrama. The land was barren initially; however, at the initiative of Revered ‘Daktaar’ Maharaj and support from the Government, it was reformed to a fertile land. He then sent Swami Jagadananda to look after the property and groom it as a farmhouse of Bankura Math.

Holy Visit by Swami Vijnananandaji Maharaj in 1935

Revered Swami Vijnanananda visited the Ashrama in the month of October in 1935 and blessed the people of the area. He halted at the ashrama at Ramharipur for a while on his way to Asansol from Bankura. He was accompanied by Daktaar Maharaj.

Establishment of the School

At the request of a group of sincere villagers of Birrah a primary school up to the fourth grade was started at the Ashrama in 1941. Next year the school was affiliated by the Board of Primary Education, West Bengal. In order to take charge of the school affairs, Swami Swanubhavananda was sent from Belur Math. Gradually higher classes were added and the school attained the status of a high school and was affiliated by the Board of School Education in 1953. Currently the Ashrama houses a junior basic school and a high school.

Significant Events


 * 1) The Ashrama functioned as a branch center of the Bankura Math until 1966, when it was converted to an independent branch center of Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math.
 * 2) In 1972 Sri Siddhartha Shankar Ray, the then Chief Minister of WB visited the ashrama while he inaugurated the water filtration project under PHE at Ramharipur.
 * 3) In 1980 two state ministers, Sri Jatin Chakraborty and Sri Nanigopal Bhattacharya came to Ramharipur and visited the Ashrama. Through their advice and able administrative skills of the then Secretary, Swami Umanathanandaji, the group of scheduled caste people who were living inside the campus moved to a north-west corner outside the campus. Now the area of their dwelling place is called ‘Saradapally’. On this occasion the road between Fulberia and Deshuria was made metalled and its name was declared, ‘Ramakrishna Mission   Sarani’ by the honorable ministers.
 * 4) From 23rd – 27th December, 1993, the Ashrama observed the centenary celebrations of Swami Vivekananda’s participation in the world parliament of religions. The renovated prayer hall of the center was consecrated in the presence of many sanyasins.  A seminar on “Swami Vivekananda’s Concept of Education”, an exhibition, a religious meeting and a one-day special conference with 2300 delegates were held during this period. A two-day long youth convention was held in the Ashrama in 1983, where 109 youth members participated.
 * 5) In 1998 the Ashrama conducted relief work following the massacre by a hail storm in the Kochkunda and Belesala villages of Bankura district. Clothes and country tiles were distributed among the affected people.
 * 6) Flood Relief Work in 2005 was conducted in a small scale in the local areas.

175th Birth Anniversary of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna was celebrated in various ways in 2011-12:

After these totally illiterate and utterly poor Santal people were served sumptuously, Swamiji said to them, “You are Narayanas; today I have entertained the Lord Himself by feeding you!”            A humble imitation of this great memorable event in the life of Swamiji was repeated by Swamiji’s admirers and devotees under the auspices of the Ramakrishna Mission Ashrama, Ramharipur, in connection with 150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda on the holy birthday of Srimat Swami Adbhutanandaji Maharaj, 25 February 2013 at 12-00 noon.   ''           Revered Srimat Swami Vagishanandaji Maharaj, Head of Ramakrishna Math, Cossipore, Kolkata and a Trustee of the Ramakrishna Math and a Member of the Governing Body of the Ramakrishna Mission, Belur Math  graced the occasion by his holy presence. A good number of devotees were present to witness the function.            151 Santals from 6 villages were invited at Ramharipur Ashrama. They came and they were served with noon food. Again, they were entertained with one piece of dhoti/saree, bathing soap, hair oil etc. To each of them was given the sum of Rs. 100/-   Current Activities:   '       a. Temple and its Services  ''':                  At the centre of a large area of 50 acres surrounded with all greens, there stands a small temple where Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna is worshipped daily. Every evening Arati is conducted. Daily prayers coupled with songs and bhajans and holy readings by the students of the hostel are conducted both in the morning and  evening. In the list of annual celebrations are included three-day long annual celebrations dedicated to holy Trio, Shivaratri, Christmas Eve, Sri Krishna-janmashtami, Buddha-purnima, Ratha-yatra etc. On all these occasions and also on every Sunday religious discourses are held. People irrespective of caste or creed, high or low, from the places far and near, attend these holy religious observances whole-heartedly and draw peace and solace to heart’s content. '''       b. Moral and Spiritual Education :''' On invitation monks go to the many towns and villages of Durgapur, Bardhaman,, Raniganj, Amarkanan, Sonamukhi etc to deliver classes and lectures. '''      c. A High School and a Junior Basic School''' : 1070 students are there in the high school and 130 students in the Junior Basic School. '''      d. A Students’ Home :''' In the students’ home, housed in two buildings 150 students stay in a free & healthy, clean & quiet and green & beautiful environment. A team of monastic as well as lay efficient persons are engaged to constantly watch and guide them for their physical, educational, intellectual, moral and spiritual development. A few students of SC, ST and OBC stay here and derive a little freedom from the financial load. '''      e. A Charitable Dispensary :''' A homeopath and three allopath doctors in a month come regularly and visit patients at the charitable dispensary. Sometimes a team of eye-specialists come and conduct eye test       at a camp. Medical camps on other kinds of ailments are here held occasionally. The dispensary building, after its construction   nearly two decades ago, needs badly to be renovated and also extended. '''f. Dairy :''' There exists a dairy and on an average 120 litters of milk is daily produced. '''      g. Gardens and Orchards :''' The ashrama looks extremely beautiful for its fruits’ orchards and flowers’ gardens sprawled over a large area. '''h. Children’s Zoo :''' Children are always found in small crowds in front of the children’s zoo. Rural Services:  '''      a. Students Welfare :''' Besides the students referred above, 80 local poor students are served with free coaching, food, uniforms, study materials and stipends regularly at the Ashrama campus. '''     b. Free Coaching Centre :''' More than a hundred poor students are given free coaching in the villages. They are provided with physical trainings, singings bhajans, Bratachari singing and dance, and moral and spiritual trainings. '''       c. Non-formal Education Centre :''' Adult men and women (about 180 in number) are educated non-formally at 5 village centers. '''       d. Pecuniary Help :''' Pecuniary helps are done for various purposes like cloths, blankets, physical treatment, construction of huts, funeral as well as Shraddha rites,  towards poor and needy people with. '''       e. ‘Stand on Your own Feet’ Project :''' Self-help programme is still running on in a limited manner. '''       f. Free Distribution of Milk :''' 250 ml of milk is given to each of 900 children and mothers of 10 villages daily. '''       g. Ramakrishna-Vivekananda & Vedanta Literature :'''A book stall just behind the temple is maintained to serve the people with the books on the life-giving and also inspiring ideals and ideas of Bhagavan Sri Ramakrishna, Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi and Swami Vivekananda. More than 700 issues of the monthly Bengali journal called ‘Udbodhan’ are distributed to the subscribers from this Ashrama.
 * Under the “Self-help Programme”, 175 families were served by providing them with the articles they need of to earn their livelihood.  The articles like by-cycles, rice meant for muri, instruments required for making iron angles for catching fishes, hard shells of Bilva fuuits, thread to make fishing net, were distributed among the needy and poor families. Each family got the things worth two thousand and five hundred rupees to make them stand on their own feet.
 * Monks of Ramharipur Ashrama visited 175 villages in Bankura district from November 2011 to April 2012. In all these places they visited and gave religious discourses and discussed with the villagers the ways and means to achieve all-round developments of the villages.
 * Activities -
 * Commemoration of 150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda from 2010 to 2014. The major events are discussed below:
 * GAP: 2 units of Gadadhar Abhyudaya Prakalpa were started in 2010 and still running on and will continue up to January 2014. 200 children are served under these 2 units.
 * Commemoration of 150th Birth Anniversary of Swami Vivekananda from 2010 to 2014. The major events are discussed below:VSPP: 5 units of Vivekananda Swasthya Parisheva Prakalpa were started in 2010 and are still running on will continue up to January 2014. 500 children are taken care of under these 5 units.
 * VSC: 123 Vivekananda Study Circles till now were opened in different parts of the Bankura district.
 * Nari Siksha O Sachetanata Sivir (Awareness Camp for Women): started in May 2013, one camp in every month is conducted.
 * Help in kinds for Widows: started in April 2013. Every month 10 kgs of rice and Rs 50/- are given to each of them.
 * Special Programmes at ‘Srijani’ Auditorium in Durgapur in 2012 and 2013: In 2012 a public meeting and a music concert were held at Durgapur on 25 November, which were attended by 1300 people on ticket to the highest capacity of the auditorium.
 * Santal Narayan Seva in 2012: We know that a group of Santal men and women were engaged to clear and level the grounds of the newly established Belur Math. One day at the outset of the last year of his life, that is, in 1902 Swamiji fed them with many kinds of tasty and delicious dishes and entertained them with all love and kindness.