From The Desk Of The Secretary

Dear All,

Greetings from the undersigned.

In Arunachal Pradesh there had been three big centres of the Ramakrishna Mission: at Itanagar, a multi-facility Hospital, one of the biggest one of the sort: at Narottamnagar, Tirap a Higher Secondary School with residential facility; at Aalo in West Siang a Higher Secondary School, partially residential; over a period of five decades. In 2017 another feather was added to the hat of Ramakrishna Mission at Lumdung, East Kameng for a Secondary School for which preparation of the Infra-structure is started with partial assistance of the State Government. There was a need of such a School run by the Mission on the West of Itanagar. The Vivekananda Kendra Vidyalayas are performing excellently in entire Arunachal Pradesh. They are our sister institution. Another sister Institution, the Ramakrishna Sarada Mission has been working at Khonsa in Tirap as well as at Dirang in West Kameng. However, Ramakrishna Mission Lumdung has started a Primary School at Lumdung inside the premises of the GSS Lumdung. And this is an evidence of the eagerness of the local people to get their children a good education. This overwhelming eagerness and expectation was felt when 1050 Admission Forms were sold in 10 days in 2018 only for Class 1 and Class 2, before the commencement of the Primary School. I congratulate and extend my thanks to all the teachers and staff of the GHSS of Seppa and VKV Wessang who participated to organize the initial Admission Test held on 23 June 2018 denying the nature’s hostile appearance on that very day. After the Inauguration of the School at Lumdung, the Monastic members and the Teaching staff of the school have taken upon their shoulders the responsibility of taking the institution ahead to put it on the spearhead of all other educational institutions in Seppa and around, though it is a long way to go yet.

Thanks to the Guardians for their cooperation as per the norms and advice of the Mission School in all respect. But there are many more factors in bringing their children up for which the awareness of the Guardians have to be enhanced. I believe that the local people do understand the legacy of the advent of the Mission in their own areas and accordingly they ought to be very cautious about their responsibilities over and above other community culture in Arunachal Pradesh.

Looking earnestly forward to the blessings of Bhagawan Sri Ramakrishna , Ma Sarada and Swami Vivekananda for a very successful educational venture in this difficult terrain and challenging environment, I do hope that the patronage and inspiration of all people concerned as well as the State Government will continue in future for the betterment of the people of Arunachal Pradesh.

Swami Sarvagananda

(Secretary)