Arunachal Pradesh govt gives `12.5 cr to RKM for setting up school for tribals

The Arunachal Pradesh government has given Rs 12.50 crore to Ramakrishna Mission to set up a residential school for the tribals at Lumdung, East Kameng.

Swami Bodhsarananda, one of the assistant general secretaries, Ramakrishna Math and Mission, received the cheque on behalf of RKM. This is the first installment given to the Mission to set up the residential school for the tribals. At Lumdung, Swami Sarvagananda will be the secretary of the proposed educational institution.

RKM plays a major role in providing education to tribals in Arunachal Pradesh. The RKM spends crores of rupees to educate the tribals all over the country. In Bengal, the Backward Class Welfare department has handed over an Ekalavya model school in Jhargram district to RKM to run the school.

In Arunachal Pradesh, the Mission runs a Secondary and Higher Secondary school for the tribals which has 2,057 students of which, 707 are girls. There is a hostel for over 200 tribal boys. There is a modern library and an audio visual unit. In Narottamnagar, the Mission runs an English medium school with 558 boy. There is a hostel, a library, a vocational and adult education centres, a natural history museum, an art gallery and a medicinal plant park. In Itanagar, there is a 221-bed hospital with a school of nursing. The hospital has four state-of-the-art operation theatres.

Swami Vivekananda had believed that the poorest of the poor should be brought under the education net as it would strengthen society and country and RKM is pursuing this goal since its inception in 1897. RKM has over 40 educational institutions in India which includes Higher Secondary schools, undergraduate colleges, post graduate institute for medical students and a deemed University at Belur.