Ramakrishna Mission distributes study material to 175 students
The Hindu
The Mangaluru Ramakrishna Mission in association with Shree Sha Souharda Credit Cooperative Society, distributed study material to about 175 students of its coaching centre on Sunday, in Mangaluru.
The Mangaluru Ramakrishna Mission in association with Shree Sha Souharda Credit Cooperative Society, distributed study material to about 175 students of its coaching centre on Sunday, in Mangaluru.
The mission runs Vivekananda Coaching Classes, a tuition facility for students from Classes 5 to 10, at its premises near Mangaladevi for the last two decades. The deserving students are being given free tuition along with value-based education along with evening tea and snacks. At the beginning of the academic year, the students are provided study material that includes schoolbags, uniforms, notebooks, umbrellas, etc.
Swami Vimokshananda, president of Ramakrishna Mutt, Yelagiri, Tamil Nadu, inaugurated the current academic year’s tuition classes on Sunday at the premises. He along with Society president M.S. Gururaj and Mangaluru Ramakrishna Mutt president and Ramakrishna Mission Secretary Swami Jithakamananda distributed the study material to students on the occasion. Coaching Centre in-charge Vijayalakshmi introduced the activities of the Centre.
Students who performed excellently in the previous academic year were felicitated on the occasion.
More than 2.6 lakh village and ward volunteers in Andhra Pradesh, once celebrated as the government’s grassroots champions for their crucial role in implementing welfare schemes, are now in a dilemma after learning that their tenure has not been renewed after August 2023 even though they have been paid honoraria till June 2024. Disowned by both YSRCP, which was in power when they were appointed, and the current ruling TDP, which made a poll promise to double their pay, these former volunteers are ruing the day they signed up for the role which they don’t know if even still exists